Good evening! Mostly cloudy and 28 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind.Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 11 am. 🌡️ Not a terribly cold night and it’s going to warm up as the snow approaches.

My neighbor was out so I decided to stay home, ride the exercise bike 🚲 and catch up on the videos I downloaded over the weekend. Nothing too exciting but I really like watching those trap line videos, especially Trap Lines and Inlines channel with his tiny hunt camp and his work snaring wolf. Then I read more about Stephen Douglas in the book I’m reading 📖 on Almost President. I could have gone out but I get exercise on the bike and it’s not as cold inside as out. I was going to go to the library but I decided against it as it was getting late and lately it seems like the library is always a lot more crowded than in the past.

I ordered a solder flux pen ✒ to better clean some of boards and wires I’m soldering. I’ve been having trouble getting solder to stick to the latest batch of perf board I got from China – it maybe just be really shitty but I want to see if extra flux helps.

Tonight will snow likely before 3am, then snow and sleet. 🌨 Low of 27 degrees at 11pm. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 19th. Calm wind becoming east around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total nighttime snow and sleet accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 25 degrees. The record low of -20 occurred back in 1948.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous 🌖 Moon with 87% illuminated. At 9 PM, the moon was in the south (170°) at an altitude of 71° from the horizon, some 237,106 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by August 3^rd. Buckle up for safety! 💺 Fairly close by, but I but still use your safety belt as most crashes happen close to home. The Snow ❄ Moon is on Sunday, February 9. The darkest hour is at 12:10 am, followed by dawn at 6:37 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:07 am in the east-southeast (111°) and last for 3 minutes and 7 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 8 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:48 am with sun in the east-southeast (118°). Tonight will have 13 hours and 50 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 29 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have freezing rain and sleet before 8am, then freezing rain between 8am and noon, then rain likely after noon. 🌧 High of 35 degrees at 2pm. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 15th. Might be kind of a sloppy commute on the way to work. East wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New ice accumulation of less than a 0.1 of an inch possible. New sleet accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 37 degrees. The record high of 55 was set in 1991. 10.8 inches of snow fell back in 1978.❄

Looking at the latest predictions this weekend will be quite bitterly cold with temperatures well into the negative range up north ☀ so I think camping ⛺ is off the agenda. Plus a lot more snow than was originally predicted. We’ll before you know it winter will be over. I might not get out of town again until April. While I don’t have the late night’s with my current job I do expect things to be even busier and more difficult to get off at the end of March.

In four weeks on March 4 the sun will be setting in the west (262°) at 5:49 pm,🌄 which is 35 minutes and 44 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had snow showers, partly sunny and temperatures between 34 and 17 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 40 and 22 degrees. It was kind of a cold March last year I remember. The record high of 59 degrees was set back in 1919.

Looking ahead, February Save the Pine Dinner 🦋 is in 2 weeks, Average High is 40 ☀️ is in 4 weeks, April Fools Day 🤡 is in 8 weeks, Pink Moon 🌕 is in 9 weeks, Palm Sunday 🌴 is in 2 months, Tax Day 💰 is in 10 weeks, Earth Day 🌎 is in 11 weeks, Cinco de Mayo 🤠 is in 3 months, 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ is in 4 months, Latest Sunset 🌆 is in 20 weeks and Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 50 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 106 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸