February 17, 2020 Night
Good evening! Presidents Day Weekend is done. Next stop, Good Friday in April. Partly clear and 24 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌃 Calm breeze. Little chilly but it’s still February for a few more weeks. There is a inch of snow on the ground. β Maybe more come the morning until it turns to rain? οΈThings will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 11 am. 🌡οΈ
It was a nice day up at Rensselaerville State Forest. 🎿 Don’t get out there much these days. Lots of shooting with an AR, not me, in the gravel pit and I passed by some trappers and a bush crafter who was camping in the back country but otherwise very quiet. It is kind of nice not that far away. I should camp up there some time too. That campsite number 2 looks quite nice and it officially designated a campsite. βΊ Maybe Memorial Day Weekend? Just a thought.
Beautiful country out that way, I’d love to eventually live in a place like that 🐮 minus the gun 🔫 and open burning restrictions. 🔥 Plus I feel like the houses are a bit too close for comfort and I don’t want to have a place that is on a road with utility services. 🔌 Some parts of the Pennsylvania Wilds remind me of that. Going to places like Rensselaerville reminds me of how much great wild country there is out there. 🐻
Tonight will have increasing clouds β, with a low of 22 degrees at 1am. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 4th. Maximum wind chill around 24 at 10pm; Calm wind becoming southeast around 5 mph after midnight. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became light snow by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 13 degrees. The record low of -21 occurred back in 1973.
Tonight will have a Waining Crescent 🌘 Moon with 27% illuminated. The Worm 🐛 Moon is on Wednesday, March 4. The darkest hour is at 12:10 am, followed by dawn at 6:22 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:51 am in the east-southeast (106Β°) and last for 3 minutes and 1 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 25 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:31 am with sun in the east-southeast (113Β°). Tonight will have 13 hours and 19 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 44 seconds over last night.
Tomorrow will snow likely before noon, then rain and snow likely between noon and 1pm, then rain likely after 1pm. Cloudy 🌧, with a high of 40 degrees at 4pm. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 4th. Southeast wind 8 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible. Probably just a lot of slop in the morning and then heavy rain come the afternoon. I need to get groceries and I want to wash my truck. 🚙 A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 26 degrees. The record high of 63 was set in 1981. 6.3 inches of snow fell back in 2000.β
In four weeks on March 16 the sun will be setting in the west (269Β°) at 7:03 pm (Daylight Savings Time),🌄 which is one hour, 34 minutes and 19 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny, rain showers and temperatures between 46 and 31 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 44 and 26 degrees. The record high of 82 degrees was set back in 1990.
Looking ahead, Read Across America Day 📚 is in 2 weeks, Worm Moon 🌕 is in 3 weeks, St. Patrick’s Day 🍀 is a month away, Arbor Day 🌳 is in 10 weeks, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 11 weeks, Pack Rat Day 🐀 is in 3 months, Flower Moon 🌕 is in 13 weeks, Memorial Day 🇺🇸 is in 14 weeks, June 🍹 is in 15 weeks and Average High is 80 🏖 is in 18 weeks.
🇺🇸🦅Only 94 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸