Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Three weeks to Read Across America Day 📚 . Snow showers and 20 degrees in Delmar, NY. ❄ Be careful, the sidewalks are icy outside in places. I saw a lady slip and then I slipped a few times. There is a south-southeast breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. There are 9 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️The skies will clear around 7 pm.

Today will continue to snow on and off, mainly before 4pm. 🌨 High of 28 degrees at 2pm. Five degrees below normal. South wind 5 to 7 mph becoming light and variable in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Total daytime snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became cloudy by afternoon. The high last year was 33 degrees. The record high of 57 was set in 1925. 13.7 inches of snow fell back in 1906.❄

Today with the weather 🌨 is going to be a work from home day, mostly using my cell phone although I’ll probably go to the library tomorrow. 📚 I’m hoping the books I ordered will arrive. I also want to get some groceries and and wash the truck tomorrow. 🚘 🛒Going to be cold but sunny ☀️ tomorrow which means the solar gain should help keep me warm.

Yesterday wasn’t a bad day. 🤷🏻‍♂️ I am glad I went down to the library in the afternoon, it wasn’t too cold. It is nice having unlimited internet and having the podcasts downloaded and some additional videos. I haven’t fired up the Hotspot since Saturday. Did both my morning and evening walks. Sidewalks were a bit slick with black ice last night but that’s common this time of year.

Made some minor improvements to the mapping back end, 🗺 disabling the multiply and overlays for the maps on mobile devices 📱 to keep things from overtaxing processors like on my very basic cellphone. It works well and is pretty on the big computers but no so well on my phone. I’ve also been putting together some new maps and interesting content for the blog.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:11 pm with sun having an altitude of 32.8° from the due south horizon (-38° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 9.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:40 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (244°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (251°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:20 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 5 seconds with dusk around 5:48 pm, which is one minute and 19 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:23 pm. At sunset, look for snow to be winding down 🌨 and temperatures around 28 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 10 hours and 20 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 35 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 16 degrees at 5am. Typical for tonight. Maximum wind chill around 10 at 6am; Northwest wind 5 to 7 mph. In 2020, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 32 degrees. The record low of -21 occurred back in 1948.

Weekend is trending warner but more cloudy. 🌥 Saturday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 21. Sunday, a chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 23. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Typical average high for the weekend is 34 degrees. Kind of cold but better than yesterday’s forecast model.

🌹🌻🌼Only 39 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼 It looks like the next two weeks will be cold but eventually it will moderate. Before you know it will be a full year since the pandemic started and it was all work from home 🏡.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Read Across America Day 📚 when the sun will be setting at 5:46 pm with dusk at 6:14 pm. On that day in 2020, we had partly cloudy, mild, snow showers and temperatures between 58 and 30 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 39 degrees. We hit a record high of 65 back in 1991.