Good evening! Mostly cloudy and 37 degrees for the evening walk in Delmar. ☁️ Maybe a few stars are about but not much. Calm wind. Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 9 pm. ☃️
Hiked thirty one 3️⃣1️⃣ miles this weekend which isn’t too bad. 🚶 Drove fewer miles than I walked. I hiked to Norman’s Kills Falls, Meads Road, Van Dyke Preserve, Five Rivers, the Town Park in the morning today, then later on Bennett Hill and Blodgett Hill in the afternoon. Didn’t get into a wreck heading over to Blodgett Hill before dark but maybe almost a ticket for speeding. 🎫
I was my usual Sunday driver self 🚘, hiked Bennett Hill and in the evening Blodgett Hill. I know I should have squeezed in Copeland Hill too but I didn’t have the time. Visited with my parents 🍲 and went to the Walmart to make sure that I had enough fruits and vegetables for the week. The goal should be 2.5 – 3 lb a day or 18 lbs of fruits and veggies or so a week. 🍏
I kind of loss track of the time at my parents house 🕒 and blew past a cop 🚨 on 32 rushing over to Blodgett Hill to get up it before dark but I didn’t get stopped. I really was only going a few miles over the 55 rural speed limit – maybe 57 or 59, and it wasn’t really a speed trap as the cop was driving but I’m such a slow driver 🐢 as it saves fuel ⛽ in my big jacked up truck which is already too expensive.
Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 25 degrees at 6am. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 11th. Light northwest wind. 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.
Maybe I’ll have to turn my heat back on. ♨ I was hoping it would be closer to freezing and I could get away with having it. Truth is I don’t mind the cold, especially with my heated blanket. I’m sure when I own my own land 🚜 I’ll let the fire die down before bed. 🛏 I’m increasingly opposed to central heating, I prefer to sleep in the cold.
Tonight will have a Last Quarter 🌗 Moon with 55% illuminated. The Snow ❄ Moon is on Tuesday, February 28. The darkest hour is at 12:11 am, followed by dawn at 6:29 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:58 am in the east-southeast (108°) and last for 3 minutes and 3 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 19 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:38 am with sun in the east-southeast (115°).Tonight will have 13 hours and 29 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 38 seconds over last night.
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 48 degrees at 3pm. 13 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 22nd. That’s warmer than I keep it normally in my apartment. Thermostat will be off tomorrow even if I don’t touch it. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 21 degrees. The record high of 58 was set in 1900. 9.0 inches of snow fell back in 1893.❄
Tomorrow starts the new express bus 🚍 going right past my house which is perfect for me on a session day. I plan to get an early start for my walk, 🚶 and then shower 🚿 and iron my shirt so I can out for the bus at 8:15. Plan calls for getting off at the Plaza and walking underground to work.
In four weeks on March 12 the sun will be setting in the west (266°) at 6:59 pm (Daylight Savings Time),🌄 which is one hour, 34 minutes and 50 seconds later then tonight. In 2021 on that day, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 60 and 30 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 44 and 25 degrees. The record high of 69 degrees was set back in 2012.
Looking ahead, Daylight Savings Time 🌆 is a month away, Last Day of Winter 🏂 is in 5 weeks, 7:30 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 8 weeks, Average High is 60 🌷 is in 9 weeks, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 12 weeks, Mothers Day 👩 is in 13 weeks, Fathers Day 👨 is in 17 weeks, Last Sunset After 8:30 PM 🌆 is in 22 weeks, Last Sunset After 8 PM 🌆 is in 6 months, 6:30 Sunrise 🌇 is in 30 weeks, Constitution Day 📜 is in 31 weeks, October 🎃 is in 33 weeks, Average High is 65 🍂 is in 34 weeks, Columbus Day 🛥️ is in 8 months, 7:15 AM Sunrise ⌛️ is in 43 weeks and Christmas Eve 🎅 is in 45 weeks.