Good morning! Happy Earth Day 🌎 on this Snowy morning! Snow flurries and 31 degrees in Delmar, NY. ❄ Breezy, ️20 mph breeze from the west-northwest 🌬 with gusts up to 34 mph 💨💨💨. The current wind chill is 19. There is a dusting of the white stuff on the ground and the cars on the ground.

I bet despite the cold on this Earth Day lots of folks will be working the earth. 🚜 Fields have to be prepped, manure spread, chisel plows and harrows run over thousands of acres across the country. We are almost a month away from the start of the Memorial Day Weekend and the first cutting of hay at most farms across Upstate NY. I 🌾Hopefully things will start to open up by then because otherwise things might be kind of crowded in the remaining wilderness areas. 🌲👪👬🌲

Today will have scattered snow showers, mainly before 8am. Mostly sunny 🌞 late , with a high of 46 degrees at 4pm. 15 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 21st. Breezy, with a west wind 20 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 45 mph. Not the coldest Earth Day ever but close. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 74 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 1985. 1 inches of snow fell back in 1928.❄

Definitely going to be a cold one today but sun ☀ for a while. I might go to the library or Five Rivers this afternoon as the Wi-Fi is so much better. I guess if I do Five Rivers again there is always the option of a nature walk 🐦 on this Earth Day 🌎 if I bundle up with the cold. ❄ That wind is really whipping around for sure. It’s no joke.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:54 pm with sun having an altitude of 59.8° from the due south horizon (-11° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:07 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (282°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (288°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:46 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 2 seconds with dusk around 8:15 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:52 pm. At sunset, look for clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 40 degrees. Breezy, 18 mph breeze ⛅ from the west-northwest with gusts up to 30mph. Today will have 13 hours and 43 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 39 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 24 degrees at 6am. 16 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 13th. West wind 11 to 16 mph decreasing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 26 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 50 degrees. The record low of 26 occurred back in 1975.

Saturday still looks like the best day for the weekend but still cold for late April. ⛅ Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 57. Sunday, showers likely, mainly after 8am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 49. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Typical average high for the weekend is 63 degrees.

While certainly not a banner forecast, 🌿 you have to make the best of it. I got away last weekend and this will probably be a stay in town weekend. I’m thinking I’ll probably do one of the big loops at Partridge Run on Saturday. 🚶 Probably from Gifford Hollow Road this time then head west on the dirt roads. The nice thing about road hiking is the lack of mud and ticks. 🐜 Plenty of summer left to still go camping ⛺.

There are 2 months until Average High is 80 🏖 when the sun will be setting at 8:37 pm with dusk at 9:11 pm. By then it will be almost time for the second cutting of hay 🌾 which seems all the more amazing on how cold the spring has been.