Good morning! Today is the Thursday before Good Friday and th Easter Weekend 🐰. Also, the Average High is 60 🌼. Four weeks to Average High is 70 🐮. Spring is coming. Cloudy with some sprinkles of rain and 48 degrees at the Elm Ave Park & Ride – CDTA. ☔ There is a south-southeast breeze at 13 mph. 🍃.

Not a banner day, but the rain and relatively mild weather should lead to things greening up in the city. 🌸 The skies will clear Sunday around 11 pm. Didn’t get particularly wet going down to the park and ride but I did see a close call between two cars on the road. 💥I’m glad I don’t have to drive to work.

Today will have a slight chance of showers before 11am, then a slight chance of showers after noon. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 57 degrees at 5pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similiar to a typical day around April 13th. Breezy, with a south wind 13 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had cloudy. The high last year was 47 degrees. The record high of 90 was set in 1976. 2.7 inches of snow fell back in 1887.❄

While today won’t win any awards on the weather front, ☁ it is a work day and I don’t expect it to be super wet. Kind of like my entire vacation last year. But so be it. Tomorrow starts a three day weekend for me, although I’m pretty much focused on the following weekend with hopes for nicer weather. Still need to think about getting some inexpensive muck boots 👢 to use for camping as I’m sure it will still be a muddy and wet mess up north.

Speaking of boots 👢, I need to replace my work boots as they’ve gotten really worn out in the soles and cracked. I’ve put a lot of miles on them walking 🚶 around this winter. But that’s good as walking is so healthy. I’ve tried more expensive boots but with all the miles I put on them, they don’t last any longer.

The sun will set at 7:41 pm with dusk around 8:10 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain showers 🌧 and temperatures around 57 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 32 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 43 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly before 1am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 52 degrees at 12am. 13 degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical night around May 30th. Maximum dew point of 52 at 6am. Fog? 🌁 South wind 9 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2018, we had partly cloudy in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 34 degrees. The record low of 18 occurred back in 1875.

I’m looking forward to the long weekend, 🐰 even if it doesn’t look that great. I did finally get a good night’s sleep but I still like the idea of sleeping in and working on some projects over the weekend. Tomorrow before the rain ☔ I’m might walk out to Five Rivers Environmental Education Center 🐸 and possibly on Sunday heading down to the Catskills for a hike. Maybe also some fishing 🎣. But nothing is set in stone at this point.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Average High is 70 🐮 when the sun will be setting at 8:12 pm with dusk at 8:44 pm. On that day in 2018, we had partly sunny skies with patches of fog on the city and temperatures between 72 and 51 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 70 degrees. We hit a record high of 89 back in 1991.