Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Mostly cloudy and 21 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. There are patches of snow snow on the ground. ☃ Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around noontime. 🌡️

Back to work after ten days off. 💼 It worked out nicely with the holiday weekend but alas it went by too quickly and the weather wasn’t the greatest. I kind of wish I had taken off more nice days in November. 🌿 I bet my plants in the office 🏢 will need watering 💦 though.

Had to pack a lunch 🥪 first time in a while. Back in the routine.

Out for the morning walk 🚶 and it’s a bit dark. Cloudy ⛅ and the sun is rising later as we approach January and the latest sunrise 🌅 of standard time in a few weeks. Walking quickly as I need to get home 🏡 and shower 🚿 quickly if I want to take the express bus 🚍 to work this morning.

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 31 degrees at 2pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical Calm wind becoming west around 6 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 34 degrees. The record high of 60 was set in 1895. 15.0 inches of snow fell back in 1894.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:57 am with sun having an altitude of 24.1° from the due south horizon (-46.8° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 13.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:43 pm with the sun in the southwest (231°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (238°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:29 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 25 seconds with dusk around 5:00 pm, which is 41 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the south-southwest (194°) at an altitude of 33° from the horizon, 228,521 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:37 pm. At sunset, look for partly sunny skies 🌃 and temperatures around 29 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 7 minutes of daytime, an increase of 28 seconds over today.

Thinking this evening of running to the store and the car wash 🛻 to get the salt off Big Red before it warms up tomorrow. And return cans and pick up a few a things. ♻ I don’t drink 🍻 at home but I have cans from the autumn.

I really need to get new boots 👢 as the ones I’m wearing are in very bad shape at this point. Worn through the soles, cracked, tore and leaky. A bad combination in the winter especially when it’s wet and icy. That said, like everything I try to maximize my use. It’s been six months 6⃣ which is about what I expected.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 18 degrees at 1am. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around January 2nd. Calm wind. In 2021, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 31 degrees. The record low of -14 occurred back in 1951.

Not a particularly nice weekend on tap. 😞 Saturday, a chance of rain and snow showers before 8am, then a chance of rain showers. Cloudy, with a high near 47. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Sunday, Typical average high for the weekend is 34 degrees.