Good morning! Yeah, it’s Friday! Next Friday is Good Friday ✝️. Pouring and 41 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a north-northwest breeze at 11 mph. 🍃.

Today will rain likely, mainly before 10am. Cloudy 🌧, with a high of 50 degrees at 4pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 29th. North wind around 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 62 degrees. The record high of 79 was set in 1981. 11 inches of snow fell back in 1891.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:59 pm with sun having an altitude of 52.9° from the due south horizon (-17.9° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 4.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. Shadows are getting short because the sun is increasingly high in the sky, although not much sun today. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:47 pm with the sun in the west (272°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (278°) starting at 7:21 pm and lasts for 2 minutes and 56 seconds with dusk around 7:52 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the southeast (129°) at an altitude of 57° from the horizon, 229,894 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:27 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 48 degrees. There will be a north breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 12 hours and 51 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of rain before 9pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 41 degrees at 6am. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 25th. North wind 5 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 30 degrees. The record low of 14 occurred back in 1954.

Tomorrow will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 56 degrees at 4pm. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 10th. North wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the morning. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 47 degrees. The record high of 79 was set in 1950. 4.3 inches of snow fell back in 2016.❄

I am starting to think tomorrow is going to be a really nice day. ☀ Maybe tomorrow I should plan to get out and get some fresh air. I am thinking about maybe a long stroll around the back part of Partridge Run mostly on the dirt roads as the trails are likely to be quite wet. 🚶

Looking ahead to Sunday, a slight chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 59. Light southwest wind. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Typical average high for the weekend is 53 degrees.

Sunday I’ll do the wash 👚and then restock the missing items in my pantry and if it’s decent maybe find some less popular places to explore in the woods not far from home and then also start to get my gear together.

As previously noted, next Friday is Good Friday ✝️ when the sun will be setting at 7:32 pm with dusk at 8:01 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 50 and 32 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 56 degrees. We hit a record high of 86 back in 1922.