Good morning! Happy Thursday. ☺

Maybe there is hope for warmer weather and the weekend but so far this morning is plain cold.

Partly clear and 37 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌤️There is a west-northwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃.

Out walking 🚶 this morning and it is cold. 8.9 miles yesterday, did laps at the park 🏞 until dark and then ran to Walmart for groceries 🛒 and put gas in Red. ⛽ Summer is coming, gas prices are on the rise. I was low on fruits and fiber, I found myself eating unhealthier carbs so I decided it was time to run to the grocery store. It will be nice when I have a bicycle 🚲 again for chores like this.

Planning on having Quinoa and blueberries this morning. 🫐 I got a bag of frozen blueberries at the store last night and it’s time to swap in a new grain instead of oatmeal this morning for breakfast. Health involves variety to ensure a mixture of vitamins.

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 62 degrees at 4pm. Typical for today. Northwest wind around 6 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 52 degrees. The record high of 93 was set in 1941. 5.8 inches of snow fell back in 1947.❄

Ethics training for me at 10 am ⚖️ which I’m sure is as obnoxious as it has been the dozens of times I’ve taken it. Zoom class so I can do it from my office, which is nice. I’m not sure how it will work with session during those hours, I guess use multiple windows. The IRC maps 🗺 of the new proposed Assembly will be released at 12 pm and I’m quite interested to see what they will be like and how they preform.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:55 pm with sun having an altitude of 58.8° from the due south horizon (-12° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.6 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:05 pm with the sun in the west (280°). 📸

The sunset is in the west-northwest (287°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:43 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 1 seconds with dusk around 8:12 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the west-northwest (287°) at an altitude of 5° from the horizon, 238,080 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:48 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 60 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 13 hours and 39 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 42 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌃 , with a low of 41 degrees at 4am. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 25th. Light and variable wind. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 29 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1875.

Cool with showers around this weekend. 🌦️Saturday, a slight chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 68. Southeast wind 13 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Maximum dew point of 49 at 8pm. Sunday, showers. High near 63. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Maximum dew point of 50 at 6am. Typical average high for the weekend is 63 degrees.

This is not a week for heading out of town 🏡 but I’ll have to find something interesting and fun to do on Saturday like take a walk somewhere interesting. 🚶 I want to get out of town soon, maybe next week. I guess a lot depends on when the whole budget agreement goes down, as I want to use comp time to take a long weekend but I haven’t worked late.

Looking ahead, next Thursday is Arbor Day 🌳 when the sun will be setting at 7:52 pm with dusk at 8:20 pm. On that day in 2022, we had mostly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 51 and 39 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 65 degrees. We hit a record high of 91 back in 1962.