Good morning! Happy March 🌨! Finally things should start to get a bit warmer. Average high by the end of the month is around or may be above fifty and maybe even warmer if the trend continues. Next Sunday is Daylight Savings Time 🌆. Mostly sunny and 27 degrees at the Five Rivers Environmental Education Center. There is a northwest breeze at 15 mph. 🍃. That breeze makes things kind of raw today for my walk which I delayed out to Five Rivers 🚶. Its not so bad in the Vlomans Kill Valley but not elsewhere in Things will start to thaw out at around 3 pm. 🌡️

A cold day today with the wind 🍃. The sun is nice but the wind is bone up chilling. I woke up this morning with a bit of a headache 👿 and a little achy but not so bad that I missed my Sunday walk 🚶 to Five Rivers Environmental Education Center. I probably have Coronavirus but I haven’t drunk any beer 🍻 since my birthday 🎂 over a month ago, and I was drinking Blue Moon 🎑. Honestly, I’m looking forward to Corona beer being on sale come the summer so I can have a nice cold drink with a lime come summer. 🍋

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 35 degrees at 4pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 18th. Northwest wind 11 to 15 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 39 degrees. The record high of 66 was set in 2017. 10.7 inches of snow fell back in 2005.❄

I think later today I’ll go out to Huyck Preserve 💦 and check out the water falls assuming that I have time before going out to the folks house for Sunday dinner. 🍲 I can’t believe another week has come to a close and next weekend will be Daylight Savings Time. At least it’s a sign that nicer weather is coming. ☀

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:09 pm with sun having an altitude of 40° from the due south horizon (-30.8° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 7.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:08 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (254°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (261°) starting at 5:43 pm and lasts for 2 minutes and 56 seconds with dusk around 6:13 pm, which is one minute and 14 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the south-southwest (209°) at an altitude of 63° from the horizon, 244,820 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:47 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 31 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 9 mph. Today will have 11 hours and 15 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 51 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of snow showers after 3am. Increasing clouds 🌧, with a low of 23 degrees at 10pm. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 8th. Calm wind becoming southeast 5 to 7 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 25 degrees. The record low of -4 occurred back in 1940.

Today you better remember your reusable bag 🛄 if you’re planning on shopping. I am not – I have enough groceries and will run to the store later in the week 🏬 and maybe wash my truck again. I’m thinking 💭 about going to John Wolcott house 🏡 on Monday but it all depends on how I feel.

I also am working on rewriting the media engine for the blog 📝 to handle the historical photos with before and after pictures you can drag across. The main issue is fixing it so that you can have two photos associated with one media type. It can be done but will require some changes to the code to make it work. It will be neat when it’s done.

🌹🌻🌼Only 18 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

As previously noted, next Sunday is Daylight Savings Time 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 6:54 pm with dusk at 7:22 pm (Daylight Savings Time). Fantastic but it will make the weekend go by in a blink. On that day in 2019, we had cold weather like today, but mostly sunny skies and temperatures between 34 and 7 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 41 degrees. We hit a record high of 68 back in 2012.