Good morning! Happy Saturday. Finally the weekend! Mostly sunny and 18 degrees in socialist Delmar. Calm wind. Some sun peaking out from the south but not a lot. Just kind of a lazy Saturday morning but so be it. I got to get to the dry cleaners this morning and run some errands. I am right now heating up breakfast. Soon I’ll take a shower and get my day going. 

Today will be partly sunny, with a high of 30 degrees at 2pm. Typical for today. More sub later in the day. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had snow and a high of 31 degrees. The record high of 66 was set in 1932. 9 inches of snow fell back in 1999.

The sun will set at 4:46 pm with dusk around 5:17 pm, which is 1 minute and 11 seconds later than yesterday. Today will have 9 hours and 24 minutes of daylight, an increase of 1 minute and 38 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with a low of 24 degrees at 5am. Seven degrees above normal. South wind around 5 mph becoming light and variable. In 2016, it got down to 23 degrees under cloudy skies. The record low of -20 occurred back in 1957.

Still not sure if I’m going camping tomorrow. I doubt it even though in lower elevations it will be snow free. Still we have long January nights and temperatures. I think I’d rather sleep in a warm bed at home and think about camping in March when temperatures moderate. It’s just so much work to get ready for camping. 

I might instead go hiking on Martin Luther King Day and maybe somewhere locally on Sunday. Tonight I’ll probably go to the store to pick up work clothing then go for a hike in the Albany Pine Bush. I guess it depends how sunny and how much wind there is. This year ain’t as mild as the weather last year. 

There is 1 month until Valentines Day when the sun will be setting at 5:26 pm with dusk at 5:55 pm. The average high temperature is 32 degrees, with a record high of 61 in 1895. Probably won’t be in the sixties for Valentines Day.