Good morning! Happy Thursday. I bet you didn’t expect to awake to snow on the cars and roofs. Might even be more Friday night into Saturday morning for my first overnight of the year in the wilderness. Three weeks to Flower Moon 🌕. Partly sunny and 31 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a west-northwest breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. Chilly for mid April.

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 45 degrees at 2pm. 14 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 18th. Northwest wind 8 to 17 mph. Don’t usually have days that far below normal these days with the region’s climate getting warmer. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 58 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 2012. 5.3 inches of snow fell back in 1983.❄

Definitely think despite the sun ☀ I’ll be working inside today, besides getting packed for the weekend and making that trip I don’t want to have to make to Walmart for the things I couldn’t buy at Aldi’s. I have my face mask ready 😷 and I refilled my spray bottle of rubbing alcohol for when I get back to my truck. Hopefully this silliness will be over sooner than later without taking too many loved ones and friends 👪.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:56 pm with sun having an altitude of 57.7° from the due south horizon (-13.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:01 pm with the sun in the west (279°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (285°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:39 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 59 seconds with dusk around 8:08 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:44 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 41 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 11 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 27 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 44 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 29 degrees at 3am. Nine degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 26th. West wind 6 to 9 mph. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 32 degrees. The record low of 21 occurred back in 1971.

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, rain and snow likely before 10am, then a chance of rain between 10am and 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 49. North wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 58. Typical average high for the weekend is 60 degrees.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Flower Moon 🌕 when the sun will be setting at 8:02 pm with dusk at 8:34 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 66 and 49 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 67 degrees. We hit a record high of 92 back in 1930.