Good morning! Happy Sunday ⛪. I like taking a break from the blog on Saturday. Mostly cloudy and 19 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. There are 4 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at around 11 am. 🌡️

Yesterday was a cold and snowy day. 🌨 Not a lot of snow but clouds are and flurries most of the day. I did my usual walk 🚶 out Meads Lane and Five Rivers Environmental Education. It was cold at times. And I did some research on machine learning techniques to predict various things. 🤖

Today will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 41 degrees at 2pm. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 3rd. South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west 11 to 16 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 26 mph. 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 63 was set in 1976. 8.4 inches of snow fell back in 1972.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:09 pm with sun having an altitude of 38.6° from the due south horizon (-32.2° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 7.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:03 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (252°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (259°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:41 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 57 seconds with dusk around 6:09 pm, which is one minute and 15 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the south-southwest (203°) at an altitude of 69° from the horizon, 244,081 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:42 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 38 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 15 mph with gusts up to 25mph. Today will have 11 hours and 8 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 49 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear ☁, with a low of 20 degrees at 6am. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around February 25th. Northwest wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 30 degrees. The record low of -13 occurred back in 1940.

Looking ahead, there are 2 weeks until Daylight Savings Time 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 6:59 pm with dusk at 7:25 pm (Daylight Savings Time). On that day in 2022, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 60 and 30 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 44 degrees. We hit a record high of 69 back in 2012.