Good evening! Partly clear and 52 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a west-northwest breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. I don’t know with that breeze it feels fairly cool. I was sitting out back but I might retire to bed inside fairly soon as it’s getting cold outside. It’s by no means a summer night, but usually those are either super muggy or cold or I have to go to work bright and early the next day. 🔆 Been a very low humidity day, kind of blustery but at least the ground is wet from all the rain we’ve had lately.

All and all not a bad day. Got my wash done 👕👖and bought groceries 🍎🍄🌽. Nice to have good clean sheets as they were starting to smell a little bit. Hands 👏are really dry from all the rubbing alcohol I’ve been putting on them to sanitize them after going into business. Bought milk 🐮, went for my evening walk down to the park 🚶, and did some walking around at Five Rivers after working there in the afternoon on the Wi-Fi. 💻

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 39 degrees at 5am. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 19th. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light after midnight. I closed the windows but no need for heat tonight. 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 34 degrees. The record low of 13 occurred back in 1982.

Tonight is the Full 🌝 Moon with 98% illuminated. At 9 PM, the moon was in the east-southeast (118°) at an altitude of 32° from the horizon, some 226,318 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀Fairly bright out but the moon’s altitude is lower than some night’s recently so there are a lot of shadows. At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by September 25^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Pink 🌸 Moon is on Tuesday, April 7. The darkest hour is at 12:58 am, followed by dawn at 6:00 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:29 am in the east (80°) and last for 2 minutes and 56 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 43 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:06 am with sun in the east (87°). Tonight will have 10 hours and 58 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 49 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 63 degrees at 3pm. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 25th. Going to be one more real nice day until two days of rain than cold weather for the long weekend. West wind 5 to 10 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 68 degrees. Warmer last year. The record high of 87 was set in 2010. 3.2 inches of snow fell back in 1896.❄ Winter is almost done but no guarantees that we won’t have one more big one.

In four weeks on May 4 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (293°) at 7:59 pm,🌄 which is 31 minutes and 46 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 67 and 52 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 66 and 44 degrees. The record high of 91 degrees was set back in 1944.

Which is fine that four weeks from now we will be in the meet of May 🌸 and things will be really green but I find it hard to accept that seven weeks from now will be Memorial Day and we will be in the prime of Black Fly Season. I really should start doing some more research on picnic table tents 🎪 as I want to get one before Memorial Day Weekend. Also if I decide to camp at Rennselearville State Forest I should inquire about getting a permit with the forest ranger. 🎫

Some how with everything shut down and meetings so screwed up from Coronavirus 👾 time flies by so quickly. Maybe it’s just that I want things to get back to normal so I’m kind of letting the clock 🕒 slide by quickly in hopes that all the usual activities will take place by summer. It would kind of suck if all the state park pools were closed this summer. 🏊 It’s a lot of fun swimming out at Mine Kill State Park, for example. I bet with state budget cuts though that their won’t be a lot of maintenance or investment in the state parks or DEC lands in the coming year.

Looking ahead, Arbor Day 🌳 is in 3 weeks, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 4 weeks, Flower Moon 🌕 is in 6 weeks, Memorial Day 🇺🇸 is in 7 weeks, June 🍹 is in 8 weeks and Average High is 80 🏖 is in 11 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 45 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸