Good morning! Happy Valentines Day ❤️! I already got the email 📧 from Fur Bearer Conservation wishing me a Happy Valentines Day. Skunk trapping is kind of a skill as you don’t want to get sprayed but it’s a marketable fur. People like skunk coats. Four weeks to 7 PM Sunset 🌆.

For this Valentines Day it’s partly cloudy and 16 degrees at the Elm Ave Park & Ride – CDTA. ⛅ Breezy, ️17 mph breeze from the northwest 🌬 with gusts up to 32 mph 💨💨💨. The current wind chill is 0. Probably warmer for those folks milking the cows 🐮 outside Valatie with all the heat they kick off – I’m sure though with the curtains down in the barns. That said, I don’t think it’s that bad out in Delmar but it bet it will be frigid downtown. There is a inch of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at Sunday around 10 am. 🌡️

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 18 degrees at 1pm. 16 degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around 5 at 1pm; Northwest wind 13 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. Cold. But it’s been a pretty mild winter so far. A year ago, we had light snow in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 37 degrees. The record high of 63 was set in 1946. 23.5 inches of snow fell back in 1914.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:11 pm with sun having an altitude of 34.2° from the due south horizon (-36.6° vs. 6/21). The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:46 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (246°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (253°) starting at 5:23 pm and lasts for 3 minutes and 2 seconds with dusk around 5:54 pm, which is one minute and 18 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:28 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 16 degrees. The wind chill around sunset will be 2. ☃️ There will be a west-northwest breeze at 13 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 31 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 39 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 1 degrees at 5am. 16 degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around -2 at 1am; Northwest wind 6 to 11 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 26 degrees. The record low of -22 occurred back in 1943.

Tomorrow will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 28 degrees at 3pm. Seven degrees below normal. Light southeast wind becoming south 5 to 10 mph in the morning. A year ago, we had light snow in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 50 degrees. The record high of 55 was set in 2006. 9 inches of snow fell back in 1894.❄

Tomorrow I have a Save the Pine Bush meeting at ten o’clock 🌲🌲🌲but first I might go out hiking in the Pine Bush if it’s not too cold. Hoping like today it will be reasonable with lots of sun ☀ making it less cold. Following that I’m going to meet Rezsin Adam’s and do some video taping 📹 of her telling her story for the documentary. Then maybe an evening hike in the Pine Bush if it ain’t too cold.

Looking ahead to Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 41. South wind 5 to 8 mph. Typical average high for the weekend is 35 degrees. Depending on how nice Sunday is I might go hiking locally – too much snow to camp up north 🚶 but it should be a nice day. Presidents Day I’ll probably go skiing 🎿 out at Rensselaerville State Forest, it’s a long time since I’ve been out that way.

🌹🌻🌼Only 34 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until 7 PM Sunset 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 6:59 pm with dusk at 7:27 pm (Daylight Savings Time). On that day in 2019, we had partly sunny, sleet and temperatures between 44 and 21 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 43 degrees. We hit a record high of 70 back in 2012.