Good morning! Happy Clean Your Computer Day 🧹 ! GIS users 👥 the worse kind of hoarders when I comes to data. But if you don’t save it, the internet disappears or moves it. Next Wednesday is 5:30 PM Sunset 🌇 . Partly sunny and 23 7/8 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌄 There is a west-northwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. There are 7 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️The skies will clear around 9 am.

I think it’s a pretty nice morning. 🌅 Sun feels pretty nice on the skin as I’m out for my morning walk. 🚶🏻 Still a few icy patches around so I have to be careful about blogging while walking so I don’t twist 🔀 my ankle too many times while walking. 💪🏻 Hoping with the sun ☀ that the sidewalks will be bare by evening but I’m sure black ice will be a problem.

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 27 degrees at 1pm. Six degrees below normal. Northwest wind 5 to 8 mph. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning, which became cloudy by afternoon. The high last year was 41 degrees. The record high of 53 was set in 1955. 4 inches of snow fell back in 1892.❄

One set of models shows more clouds 🌥 and the other for sun ☀ today. In many ways I’m thinking today would be a better day to work from home and then tomorrow ar lunch time go shopping 🛒 and wash the truck 🚚.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:11 pm with sun having an altitude of 33.2° from the due south horizon (-37.7° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 9.2 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:41 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (245°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (251°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:21 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 4 seconds with dusk around 5:50 pm, which is one minute and 18 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:24 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 26 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 22 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 35 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 17 degrees at 5am. Typical for tonight. Maximum wind chill around 16 at 9pm; Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. In 2020, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became light drizzle by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 34 degrees. The record low of -18 occurred back in 1962.

Not much sun this weekend. 🌥 Saturday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 20. Sunday, a chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 27. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Typical average high for the weekend is 34 degrees.

I don’t think there is much hope to getting out of town for the long Presidential Weekend. ⛺ It’s a dream I have every year but February is tough and tends to be quite cold and snowy, plus at this point spring isn’t that far away. 🌷

🌹🌻🌼Only 38 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

As previously noted, next Wednesday is 5:30 PM Sunset 🌇 when the sun will be setting at 5:30 pm with dusk at 5:58 pm. On that day in 2020, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 38 and 25 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 35 degrees. We hit a record high of 60 back in 1981.