Good morning! Happy Saturday. Finally the weekend! Five weeks to Average High is 50 🌸. When there is no hope, there is spring. Easter is late this year. Sunny and 20 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 Calm wind. Things will start to thaw out at around 10 am. 🌡️ So we tell ourselves.

Pine Bush Hike at nine thirty this morning 🌲🌲🌲 which I am going to this morning followed by maybe getting a bite at Yonder Farms, picking up my dry cleaning and running to the store and washing my truck at the end of the day. 🏬 Tomorrow I plan to be out enjoying the nice weather, probably skiing 🎿 or hiking 🚶 at Partridge Run. Sounds like Monday will be quite nice, but I have to work and we might get a big rain ☔ storm come Tuesday into Wednesday that will melt the snow locally but who knows up in the mountains.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 40 degrees at 3pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 4th. Light and variable wind becoming west 5 to 8 mph in the morning. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 39 degrees. The record high of 68 was set in 1997. 14.8 inches of snow fell back in 1893.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:10 pm with sun having an altitude of 37.1° from the due south horizon (-33.8° vs. 6/21). The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:57 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (250°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (257°) starting at 5:33 pm and lasts for 2 minutes and 59 seconds with dusk around 6:04 pm, which is one minute and 16 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:37 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 37 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 53 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 47 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 24 degrees at 5am. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 11th. Light south wind. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 20 degrees. The record low of -16 occurred back in 1972.

🌹🌻🌼Only 26 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

Looking ahead, there are 5 weeks until Average High is 50 🌸 when the sun will be setting at 7:17 pm with dusk at 7:45 pm (Daylight Savings Time). On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 55 and 33 degrees. We hit a record high of 85 back in 1945. Well at least a few of the older generation remembers that day as a young child.