Good evening! Cloudy and 67 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south-southeast breeze at 11 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 57 degrees. The rain is done for the remainder of the weekend but not much sun is expected. The skies will clear Thursday around 5 am. It is what it is.

Today was a pretty rainy day ☔ until around the three o’clock hour. Then it started to clear out. I went down to the library for a while uploaded some content I’ve been working on for the blog. While today has been a pretty wet day – my downstairs floors are all quite damp – it been pretty mild and I’ve been enjoying the fresh air. 💦Hopefully though it will dry out soon or I’m going to have get some bleach down to fight the certain mildew.

Today is 420 day and while I don’t smoke pot for the most part, I’ve playing with the GRASS functions in QGIS. 🌎 I’m too cheap and too broke after saving to buy marijuana much less alcohol but I sure like open source software. 🔓 Even once it’s legal in a few months. The GRASS system 🌾 is really powerful but has a steep learning curve, although now that’s integrated into QGIS its easy once you learn the functions to call. The next thing is to figure out how to script it. My interest lately has been doing more advanced things with the digital elevation models data and simplify it enough to use with Google Maps. 🌐

The sun will set at 7:43 pm with dusk around 8:13 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 65 degrees. The dew point will be 55 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 14 mph.

I thought 💭 about going to the grocery store today and maybe to get some epoxy but I will hold off on that for a while I think. I’m going to have to but groceries mid week for camping, so why make two trips with my fossil fuel burner.🚙 I almost thought about hiking down to the Normans Kill Gorge to see all the water raging but it’s already getting late and with the skies being fairly cloudy its going to get dark early😕. Maybe that’s where I will hike on Easter Sunday.

Other things on my bucket list for today 📃 are to load my camping gear into the truck and work on soldering together the other sign module I have. Lately I’ve not been working on as many electronics projects probably because I’ve been spending so much time on either the excerise bike 🚲 or working on mapping things and other coding projects.🌐

I finally got the cellphone 📱 holder I ordered from China in March. For a $1.90 it’s pretty solid unit that fits very snuggly to the vent of my truck. The old one I had was falling apart after I dropped it a while back. I think the old one it was ten dollars at Wal-Mart, came in ten times more packaging. Ali Express for certain things like simple electronics is really great if you are willing to wait.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly before 7pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 52 degrees at 4am. 13 degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical night around May 30th. Maximum dew point of 56 at 6pm. South wind 9 to 14 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 mostly sunny by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 34 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1875.

Tonight will have a Waning Gibbous Moon 🌖 with 91% illuminated with the moon rising at 9:15 pm. The moon will set at 7:42 am. The Last Quarter Moon is on Thursday night with mostly cloudy skies. The Flower Moon 🌝 is on Friday, May 17th. The sun will rise at 6:05 am with the first light at 5:35 am, which is one minute and 33 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 10 hours and 20 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 41 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of showers after 10am. Partly sunny 🌦, with a high of 68 degrees at 2pm. Seven degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical day around May 10th. Maximum dew point of 49 at 7am. South wind 8 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had cloudy. The high last year was 60 degrees. The record high of 89 was set in 1923. .6 inches of snow fell back in 1947.❄

In four weeks on May 18 the sun will be setting at 8:14 pm,🌄 which is 30 minutes and 47 seconds later then today. In 2018 on that day, we had partly cloudy skies and temperatures between 73 and 51 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 70 and 48 degrees. The record high of 94 degrees was set back in 2017.

Looking ahead, Arbor Day 🌳 is in 1 week, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 2 weeks, Flower Moon 🌕 is in 4 weeks, June 🍹 is in 6 weeks, Summer ️⛱️ is in 2 months, Average High is 80 🏖 is in 9 weeks, Hottest Time of the Year 😅 is in 12 weeks, Ugly Truck Day 🚚 is in 3 months, Average High Falls To 79 ️Degrees ⛱️️️ is in 18 weeks, Average High 70 🎑 is in 22 weeks and Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 21 months.