Good morning! Happy Sunday. ⛪ Best thing about this Sunday is Monday is President’s Day in New York, although the federal government considers Monday Washington’s Birthday to the holiday as Congress wasn’t going to give Ronnie Reagan a holiday to celebrate 🎉. Two weeks to March 🌨. Now that’s a holiday to celebrate once the snow melts away in Trump’s America. Mostly cloudy and 32 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south-southeast breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. There is a inch of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Cloudy and the skies will clear tomorrow around 9 am.

Today will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 42 degrees at 2pm. Seven degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 10th. South wind 5 to 9 mph becoming calm in the afternoon. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 34 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 2006. 17.3 inches of snow fell back in 1958.❄

I might walk out to Five Rivers this morning 🚶, I am undecided on that as it’s kind of dreary. I do want to go down to the Bethlehem Library later on to upload some of pictures I took yesterday on my night hike. 📷 It would be nice to finish up the book I’m reading 📖 on electrical wiring too today. Tomorrow I am planning on getting a fairly early start and going out to Rensselaerville State Forest to ski 🎿 as I think there will be sufficient snow there.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:10 pm with sun having an altitude of 34.9° from the due south horizon (-35.9° vs. 6/21). The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:49 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (247°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (254°) starting at 5:25 pm and lasts for 3 minutes and 2 seconds with dusk around 5:56 pm, which is one minute and 18 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:30 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 40 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 10 hours and 36 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 42 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 26 degrees at 6am. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 16th. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 7 mph after midnight. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 17 degrees. The record low of -16 occurred back in 1973.

🌹🌻🌼Only 32 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

While I’m sure we are due for at least one more snow storm ❄, I think spring is coming with relatively mild temperatures predicted both in the short term and long term. Maybe we’ll get a cold spell in March but March cold spells don’t last long and are never as bad as January weather due to the sun being significantly higher in the sky. ☀

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until March 🌨 when the sun will be setting at 5:45 pm with dusk at 6:13 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 39 and 14 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 39 degrees. We hit a record high of 66 back in 2017.