Good afternoon! Partly sunny and 40 degrees at the Bennett Hill Preserve. There is a east-southeast breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 10 pm. ☃️

It’s the Sunday morning hike on Bennett Hill 🗻 same one I do every week before going out see the folks. Nice day though it started out cold. But it is now starting to feel like a mid March day. Sun angle has been getting a lot stronger the past few days so when it’s sunny out and not too windy it warms up fast.

This afternoon will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 45 degrees at 3pm. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 15th. East wind 3 to 5 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 16 degrees. The record high of 55 was set in 1932. 13.5 inches of snow fell back in 1988.❄

Split pea soup 🥙 for lunch at my folks house and then I’ll probably sit out back with the dog 🐶. If I leave early enough I might do a jot up Blodgett Hill. Then I need to get some groceries 🍌, mostly the perishable healthy kind. If not for needing oranges and bananas for work I probably could skip that trip. But I’m eating healthier in my 40s.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:11 pm with sun having an altitude of 33.7° from the due south horizon (-37.2° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 9 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:44 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (245°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (252°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:24 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 3 seconds with dusk around 5:52 pm, which is one minute and 18 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:26 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 42 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 10 hours and 29 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 37 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 27 degrees at 6am. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 18th. Calm wind becoming northwest around 5 mph after midnight. In 2022, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 5 degrees. The record low of -18 occurred back in 1875.

One month 📅 from now will be Daylight Savings Time 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 6:59 pm with dusk at 7:26 pm (Daylight Savings Time). The average high temperature is 34 degrees, with a record high of 61 in 1895.