Good morning! Happy Thursday. Freezing rain and Ice pellets and 27 degrees at the Elm Ave Park and Ride. 🌨 Kind of a mix of slop. There is a north-northeast breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. There are 3 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at around 1 pm. 🌡️

I decided to skip my morning walk 🚶 in favor of an earlier bus 🚍 downtown and walking the concourse. It’s not expected to last all day but maybe more rain later. ☔ I will try to do as many steps inside as possible. 👣

Today will be freezing rain and sleet likely before 1pm, then a slight chance of rain, freezing rain, and sleet between 1pm and 2pm, then a slight chance of rain and sleet after 2pm. Cloudy ☔ , with a high of 34 degrees at 2pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 8th. Northeast wind around 6 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Total daytime ice accumulation of less than a 0. 1 of an inch possible. Total daytime sleet accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became cloudy by afternoon. The high last year was 38 degrees. The record high of 69 was set in 2017. 6.9 inches of snow fell back in 1935.❄

I brought the DVD 📀 into work that I got from the NYS BOE with the county voter file, 📂 and the work computer couldn’t read it. I tried pulling the second hard drive on my laptop and putting the DVD drive in it but that didn’t work with either. I’m frustrated as I had great hope to use that data to build turn out models and help local candidates get the voters out they need to succeed using R Studio and machine learning.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:10 pm with sun having an altitude of 37.5° from the due south horizon (-33.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 7.8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:59 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (251°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (258°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:38 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 58 seconds with dusk around 6:05 pm, which is one minute and 16 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the west-southwest (240°) at an altitude of 38° from the horizon, 235,364 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:39 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 33 degrees. There will be a southeast breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 59 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 48 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain or freezing rain, becoming all rain after 10pm, then gradually ending. 🌧 Low of 31 degrees at 6am. Seven degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 18th. South wind 5 to 13 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Little or no ice accumulation expected. Yuck. In 2022, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 35 degrees. The record low of -11 occurred back in 1894.

My thought is that if I walk 🚶 early this evening and at lunch I’ll get my steps in but I’m concerned. I’ve been on a roll 🍥 lately and I don’t want to break it.

Cloudy and cold for the weekend. 😞 Saturday, a chance of snow showers after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 25. North wind 5 to 7 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Sunday, a chance of snow showers after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 39. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Typical average high for the weekend is 39 degrees.

Looking ahead, next Thursday is Read Across America Day 📚 when the sun will be setting at 5:47 pm with dusk at 6:13 pm. On that day in 2022, we had cold, mostly sunny and temperatures between 24 and 9 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 40 degrees. We hit a record high of 65 back in 1991.

Now seems like a good time for a cold PBR …