Good evening! Cloudy and 53 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a west-southwest breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Wednesday around 3 am. ☃️

I’m tired 😴 so I’m going to keep this blog post short and get some sleep.

Back home again. 🗻 That said it was a nice weekend camping ⛺ up off of the East Branch Sacandaga River, hiking the East Branch Gorge Trail on Saturday, hiking back along Stewart Creek and Cod Pond on Sunday mid afternoon and then the backside of Auger Falls in the evening. I left outside of Wells around six and it was a long drive home from there.

Still have more to unpack in the morning but the criticals like food are put away. 🍏 I took a very cold shower, forgetting to turn the hot water heater back on when I got home. 🚿 Evidently, the hot water heater is much more essential in mid April than the summer.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly before 1am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 37 degrees at 6am. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 15th. Northwest wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2019, we had light rain in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 60 degrees. The record low of 19 occurred back in 1875.

Tonight will have a Waining Crescent 🌘 Moon with 8% illuminated. The Flower 🌷 Moon is on Tuesday, May 5. The darkest hour is at 12:55 am, followed by dawn at 5:38 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:08 am in the east-northeast (74°) and last for 3 minutes and 1 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 34 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:46 am with sun in the east (80°). Tonight will have 10 hours and 22 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 41 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 53 degrees at 4pm. Eight degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 4th. North wind 7 to 9 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 71 degrees. The record high of 93 was set in 1941. 5.8 inches of snow fell back in 1947.❄

In four weeks on May 17 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (298°) at 8:13 pm,🌄 which is 30 minutes and 54 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 73 and 52 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 70 and 47 degrees. The record high of 92 degrees was set back in 2017.

Looking ahead, Mothers Day 👩‍ is in 3 weeks, Pack Rat Day 🐀 is in 4 weeks, Strawberry Moon 🌕 is in 7 weeks and Fathers Day 👨 is in 8 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 33 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸