Good morning! Happy Soggy Thursday. Not a lot of rain just slop like that one Memorial Day Weekend I camped at Moose River Plains. Next Thursday is National Cheese Lovers Day 🧀. I do love cheese and all things dairy. Keep dreaming about next week. 🐮 Cloudy, some drizzle and damp and 35 degrees at the Elm Ave Park & Ride – CDTA. ☁💧 There is a west breeze at 13 mph. 🍃. There a dusting of very sloppy snow on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 4 pm. ☃️

While I got a good sleep last night — I was worried about the decaf coffee at the Pine Bush Dinner ☕, I am a bit hazy from the sleeping pill I took last night.💊 But I did get a good night sleep, all said and done. Laid in bed a little while longer then I like but with the alarm set at 6:30 AM ⏰ morning wasn’t bad at all.

Today will have a slight chance of rain and snow showers, mainly between 3pm and 4pm. Partly sunny 🌧, with a high of 41 degrees at 10am. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 7th. Breezy, with a northwest wind 13 to 18 mph increasing to 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 45 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became cloudy by afternoon. The high last year was 39 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1995. 15.1 inches of snow fell back in 1945.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:06 pm with sun having an altitude of 26.4° from the due south horizon (-44.4° vs. 6/21). The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:04 pm with the sun in the southwest (234°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (242°) starting at 4:45 pm and lasts for 3 minutes and 18 seconds with dusk around 5:18 pm, which is one minute and 11 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:54 pm. At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 35 degrees. The wind chill around sunset will be 23. ☃️ Breezy, 25 mph breeze ⛅ from the northwest with gusts up to 45mph. Today will have 9 hours and 25 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 40 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 11 degrees at 6am. Three degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around -4 at 5am; Blustery, with a northwest wind 20 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph. Maybe I should turn the heat up a bit when I get home. And wear the comfee blaze orange hoodie I love. I should buy more of them — most of them are now perpetually stained and at least one of them has holes burnt into it from fire. I just like them so much because their warm and safe for walking both on the roads on when out hunting. 🦺 In 2019, we had light snow in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 9 degrees. The record low of -23 occurred back in 1971.

Ever since I go brushed by that truck 🚚 on Tuesday walking around 🚶 I’ve become a lot more careful crossing the streets. That said, you have to be assertive on the crosswalks or motorists might not stop. Eye 👀 contact is important with motorists, nothing wrong with staring down drivers when your crossing. That often gets them to follow the law. 👮

Snowy this Martin Luther King 👑 Weekend. Saturday, snow, mainly after 1pm. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 26. Light and variable wind becoming south 8 to 13 mph in the morning. ❄ Chance of precipitation is 90%. Sunday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 36. Followed by cold next week, so the snow will stick around as will the road salt but it should be good weather for skiing 🎿assuming there is enough snow. Might melt away a on Sunday. Typical average high for the weekend is 30 degrees.

I think Saturday I’m going to get an early start – no more sleeping in on weekends – and get to the store early before the storm. Depending on the timing of the storm it might be fun skiing 🎿 in the afternoon from home. Or maybe wait to Sunday. I want to do some more scrubbing of the bathroom, especially the red mildew in the shower 🚿 and work on rebuilding one of my electronics projects. Keep working on typing up the John Wolcott index 📇. I obviously don’t want to get caught in the storm. At some point I’m going to want to take the bottles and cans to the recycling center ♻ but I have plenty of room in the trash cans for now, especially if I return the beer cans for deposit. I do need to empty the paper trash 📄 in the recycling dumpster though. It’s overflowing my bin. 🚮

🌹🌻🌼Only 63 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

As previously noted, next Thursday is National Cheese Lovers Day 🧀 when the sun will be setting at 4:56 pm with dusk at 5:26 pm. On that day in 2019, we had rain showers, partly cloudy and temperatures between 40 and 9 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 31 degrees. We hit a record high of 64 back in 1906.