Good morning! Happy Tax Day 💰! New York hasn’t taken it two hundred and half pounds 💷 of flesh but it’s happening soon. Next Monday is Earth Day 🌎. Looking forward the following weekend to having a big ass fire, 🔥 eating off paper plates and enjoying the Earth up in the wilderness. A break in the clouds with some sun and 55 degrees at the Elm Ave Park & Ride – CDTA. ⛅ Calm wind. The dew point is 51 degrees. Just waiting for the bus to depart and head downtown.

Taking the express bus 🚍 downtown for my defensive driving course. The safest thing is not to get behind the wheel of your own car but let the professionals do the driving. When I get to class, I’ll have to power down my phone so no more posts except some scheduled ones until later.

Today will have showers likely, mainly before 9am. Mostly cloudy, with a temperature falling to around 46 by 5pm. Breezy, with a light and variable wind becoming west 15 to 20 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 36 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy in the morning, which became light drizzle by afternoon. The high last year was 36 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 2003. 2.4 inches of snow fell back in 2014.❄

The sun will set at 7:37 pm with dusk around 8:06 pm, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 41 degrees. Blustery, 🌬 with a stiff breeze at 26 mph the west-northwest with gusts up to 47mph. Today will have 13 hours and 24 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 46 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have isolated showers before 10pm. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear 🌧, with a low of 37 degrees at 3am. One degrees below normal, which is similiar to a typical night around April 14th. Windy, with a northwest wind 20 to 26 mph, with gusts as high as 47 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2018, we had light rain in the evening, which became rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 32 degrees. The record low of 22 occurred back in 1981.

As previously noted, next Monday is Earth Day 🌎 when the sun will be setting at 7:45 pm with dusk at 8:15 pm. On that day in 2018, we had sunny and temperatures between 65 and 29 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 61 degrees. We hit a record high of 86 back in 1985.