Good morning! Monday’s come back around again. Three weeks to Average High is 70 🐮. Mostly sunny and 41 degrees in Speculator, NY. Breezy, ️18 mph breeze from the northwest 🌬 with gusts up to 30 mph 💨💨💨. Kind of a cold start to the day, although warming up fast, but that breeze is nasty to say the least. Started out with a walk along the Spectulator Community Walk, but I was quite happy to return to my truck and get things started working from inside my truck, with the sun keeping me warm and comfortable, out of the wind.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 55 degrees at 4pm. Eight degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 9th. Breezy, with a northwest wind 18 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning, which became light rain by afternoon. The high last year was 57 degrees. The record high of 90 was set in 1990. 0.3 inches of snow fell back in 1993.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:56 pm with sun having an altitude of 60.1° from the due south horizon (-9.8° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:15 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (283°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (290°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:54 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 7 seconds with dusk around 8:24 pm, which is one minute and 11 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the east-southeast (114°) at an altitude of 9° from the horizon, 226,686 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:03 pm. At sunset, look for clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 49 degrees. Breezy, 16 mph breeze ⛅ from the west-northwest. Today will have 13 hours and 57 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 41 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 33 degrees at 5am. Eight degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 5th. Northwest wind 11 to 16 mph decreasing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight. In 2020, we had light rain in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 37 degrees. The record low of 26 occurred back in 1963.

Cool this weekend with temperatures running 6 degrees below normal but otherwise sunny. 😃 Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 57. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 62. Maximum dew point of 37 at 7pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 65 degrees.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Pack Rat Day 🐀 when the sun will be setting at 8:17 pm with dusk at 8:50 pm. On that day in 2020, we had mostly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 74 and 54 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 70 degrees. We hit a record high of 92 back in 2017.