Good morning! It’s the dire winter emergency according to the morning news. I mean there is some snow and ice on the secondary roads but the sidewalks are clear and I’m out for my morning walk on this Tuesday. 🚶

Overcast and 27 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁️There is a east-southeast breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. There is maybe 4 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at around 1 pm. 🌡️

So I was worried about the snow interfering with my morning walk 👣 but it stopped early and the sidewalks and roads are pretty much clear locally. Maybe it’s the valley snow shadow they were talking about. Truth is it’s a pretty nice morning, not real cold. But then again the average high for this time of year is 40. Depending on how much more snow we get later and how warm it gets today I could see wet sidewalks by evening and bare by tomorrow morning.

Maybe the express bus 🚍 from Voorheesville will be a bit late 🚏but I will get ready and watch it on the map 🗺 from inside and head out when it gets to Slingerlands. I live in the city, what do I care?

Today will snow, mainly before 4pm. 🌨 High of 33 degrees at 2pm. Six degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 8th. East wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total daytime snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. The high last year was 41 degrees. The record high of 63 was set in 1903. 9.7 inches of snow fell back in 1948.❄

I had a slice of the corn bread I made up Sunday and some coffee ☕. Iron my shirt 👚 and shower 🚿 and head off to work. 🏢 And do the usual game. Yesterday I made hash browns in the oven from the farmers market potatoes 🥔 with an egg 🥚, some corn 🌽 and cheese 🧀.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:09 pm with sun having an altitude of 39.4° from the due south horizon (-31.5° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 7.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:06 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (254°). 📸

The sunset is in the west (260°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:44 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 57 seconds with dusk around 6:11 pm, which is one minute and 14 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the southeast (136°) at an altitude of 70° from the horizon, 248,911 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:45 pm. At sunset, look for snow 🌨 and temperatures around 33 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Tomorrow will have 11 hours and 16 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 51 seconds over today.

Tonight will have a slight chance of snow before 8pm. Mostly cloudy 🌨, with a low of 20 degrees at 6am. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around February 25th. South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming northwest in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2022, we had light rain in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 17 degrees. The record low of -09 occurred back in 1948.

Not a particularly nice weekend on tap. 😞 Saturday, snow likely before 1pm, then a chance of rain showers. Cloudy, with a high near 39. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Sunday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 37. Typical average high for the zzzweekend is 41 degrees.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until First Day of Spring 💮 when the sun will be setting at 7:09 pm with dusk at 7:36 pm (Daylight Savings Time). On that day in 2022, we had sunny and temperatures between 63 and 25 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 47 degrees. We hit a record high of 78 back in 1921.