Good morning! Monday’s come back around again. Next Monday the Average High is 40 ☀️. Most cloudy with a few peaks of sun. and 28 degrees in Delmar. ❄ Only a few gusts earlier, but now it seems like the breeze is picking up a bit 💨. Definitely windy come this afternoon, especially in the city with all the buildings for the breeze to blow through The current wind chill is 23 but it fall through the days. The rain and warmer temperatures haven’t been good to frosty, with just piles of snow and a lot of bare ground at this point. ☃ But the rest of the week should be pretty cold, with things only starting to thaw out at Friday around 11 am. 🌡️

The big story today, at least if the news men are to believed is that it’s going to be a very blustery day.🌪 Maybe, but it wasn’t too bad walking down to the express bus stop this morning. 🚏A bit chilly, but by the time I got there, I unbuckled my jacket because I was starting to sweat a bit from the calories being burnt.♨I heard a few gusts on the bus coming downtown, but for the most part the tree branches are just gently blowing in the wind, and it’s not that windy out for now. But I did leave the heat turned up, so I don’t get stuck with dropping temperatures and a cold apartment when I get home, and the off-chance I loose power tonight, it will make it less cool. I noticed my flashlight isn’t working, but I have another one I can use, worse comes to worse — and if it’s dark tonight, so be it. I’ll just retire to bed early. 🔦

I checked for widow makers over my truck before I parked it last night, and I think I’m good although I guess there is one tree that potentially could fall, but if it did I doubt it would where the truck is parked. 🅿 Most of the yard is pretty safe though, as the landlord cut down all the trees.🎋I made sure the trash can tops were bungees on well this morning before I left, as I’ve had the tops blow off and they can be difficult to find in the neighbors lawn, especially if it snowed like it did that one year. I haven’t been to the transfer station yet this year, ♻ so the cans are good and heavy, I’d like to say because I’ve worked hard to cut down on waste compared to years past, but it’s probably more to do with the fact I was out of town in the autumn for work, and I was out camping for nine nights in December. 🔥

Today will have a chance of snow showers, mainly between 2pm and 3pm. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 29 degrees at 12pm. Eight degrees below normal. Windy, with a west wind around 30 mph, with gusts as high as 55 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. The high last year was 42 degrees. The record high of 70 was set in 2017. 16.8 inches of snow fell back in 1966.❄

The sun will set at 5:40 pm with dusk around 6:08 pm, which is one minute and 15 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for snow 🌨 and temperatures around 27 degrees. The wind chill around sunset will be 11. ☃️Blustery, 🌬 with a stiff breeze at 29 mph the west-northwest with gusts up to 53mph. That’s not going to be very fun at the bus stop this evening. 🌪 Today will have 11 hours and 4 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 50 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of snow showers, mainly before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear 🌧, with a low of 13 degrees at 6am. Seven degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around -1 at 5am; Breezy, with a northwest wind 17 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 45 mph. I think this is a good evening to stay home and ride the exercise bike 🚲 when either watching a video or listening to the podcast. 🎧 The wireless headphones are great for that, especially now that I got them to pair with the laptop. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. In 2018, we had mostly clear in the evening, which became mostly sunny by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 32 degrees. The record low of -11 occurred back in 1950.

Tomorrow will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 20 degrees at 12pm. 18 degrees below normal. That’s ducking cold. Won’t be as windy but still super cold for the last week of March. At least it’s a work day. Maximum wind chill around 5 at 12pm; Northwest wind 15 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. Granted, it’s better then what a cold day would be like in late December or early January. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. The high last year was 51 degrees. The record high of 63 was set in 1976. 8.4 inches of snow fell back in 1972.❄

Yesterday I went out to the folks house for Sunday dinner. Picked up some groceries, wasn’t happy that my grocery bill was $55, which is more than I wanted to spend this week but I needed new boxers and they were like $15 for five. 💰 Left the heat turned up today, so there goes more money. At least it seems like the spring will be mild so maybe soon I can turn off the heat until November.

Tomorrow is a session day, so it’s back to wearing the suit and tie.🕴I was looking on JC Penny’s website for like an hour trying to see if I could order another pair of dress pants to match my blazer, and while I carefully wrote down the label, I am not sure if I could find an exact match — plus they wanted to charge me $9 for the shipping unless I ordered $99 of goods. So many options online, it’s always confusing when your trying to order a matching anything at the store.

I have two perfectly matching pair of pants although one has a tear in a seem , along with two older ones that aren’t a good match, and a newer one.👖 I don’t wear them all the time, so they’ve held up well but some of the older ones are getting shabbier. I might go to the store during the weekend to pick

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, a chance of rain and snow showers. Cloudy, with a high near 43. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 30. Typical average high for the weekend is 39 degrees. Doesn’t sound like a really nice weekend, might stay in town as spring can’t be that far away.

As previously noted, next Monday the Average High is 40 ☀️ when the sun will be setting at 5:49 pm with dusk at 6:17 pm. On that day in 2018, we had snow showers, partly cloudy and temperatures between 38 and 32 degrees. The moral of the story, is average doesn’t mean we have that every week. We hit a record high of 59 back in 1919.

In four weeks on March 25 the sun will be setting at 7:13 pm (Daylight Savings Time),🌄 which is one hour, 33 minutes and 15 seconds later then today. In 2018 on that day, we had partly sunny, snow showers and temperatures between 44 and 28 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 48 and 29 degrees. Looking forward to nicer weather. The record high of 74 degrees was set back in 1910.

Looking ahead, Average High is 40 ☀️ in 1 week, April Fools Day 🤡 is in 5 weeks, Tax Day 💰 is in 7 weeks, Earth Day 🌎 is in 8 weeks, Memorial Day 🇺🇸 is in 13 weeks, July 🏊🏿 is in 18 weeks and Last Sunset After 8 PM 🌆 is in 24 weeks.