Good morning! Happy Saturday. A rainy Martin Luther King Jr. Day  Weekend! It could be snow, but it’s not. Just a very cold, sloppy rain-mix. Six weeks to Snow Moon 🌕 . Rain with a lot of slush and dirty-four degrees in Delmar, NY. ❄ The kind of day farmers and outdoorsman everywhere dream of if they want to be up their waists slip-sliding in mud and shit. 💩 There is a northeast breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. There are 0.5 inches of sloppy ice and slush on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 2 am. ☃️ So you can be slip-sliding away and the roads can be caked with a shit-ton of salt.

I survived my trip down to the office, 🚌 and as far as I know I didn’t catch the CORONA or get assaulted by protestors downtown. ✊ Honestly, it was very quiet yesterday. I think I only saw one other person in office, no protestors and even the buses were empty. 🙌 I did wash my hands well after I got home. I do plan to stay socially distant from all the happenings in Albany this week, only interacting with it through my computer and phone for work purposes. I don’t want to touch any of that stuff with a 10 1/4 foot stick or whatever you call it.🍢 I’ll be quiet happy sitting at home, working on the computer from Delmar and looking out the window. 💻 Granted, remote work would be more fun from the Adirondacks but it’s cold up north and there isn’t a lot of places I can camp up there right now with cell service.

Today will snow before 10am, then rain and snow showers likely between 10am and 11am, then rain showers likely after 11am. 🌦 High of 38 degrees at 1pm. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 4th. Northeast wind 6 to 8 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, which became light snow by afternoon. The high last year was 42 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1995. 15.1 inches of snow fell back in 1945.❄

So yes, today will be a cold and wet day. ☔ I mean it could be snow, although in many ways I would prefer that but at least the rain will wash the salt off the roads until tonight when it’s reapplied. I am going to continue exploring some LANDSTAT data and some other things and do some reading today.🌍 Then maybe do some cleaning downstairs and hopefully by evening it will nice enough for the evening walk.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:06 pm with sun having an altitude of 26.5° from the due south horizon (-44.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 12 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:05 pm with the sun in the southwest (234°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (242°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:49 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 18 seconds with dusk around 5:19 pm, which is one minute and 11 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the southwest (215°) at an altitude of 29° from the horizon, 245,405 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:55 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 37 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 26 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 41 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of rain and snow showers before midnight, then a slight chance of snow showers between midnight and 1am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 31 degrees at 3am. 17 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 29th. West wind 11 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2020, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 10 degrees. The record low of -23 occurred back in 1971.

🌹🌻🌼Only 9 weeks remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼 I can remember last weekend when it was 10 weeks. Each week is one week closer to spring and the black flies, the mud and tangy smell of cow shit in small towns everywhere. And trout fishing. Add about two months two that date, and the black flies will be out in full force and it will be Memorial Day Weekend or something like that. The windows will be open and fresh air.

As previously noted, next Saturday is National Cheese Lovers Day 🧀 when the sun will be setting at 4:57 pm with dusk at 5:27 pm. On that day in 2020, we had mostly cloudy and temperatures between 37 and 11 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 31 degrees. It’s supposed to be warming up at that point a little but I expect below normal temperatures’ in Biden’s America, at least to start out his term. We hit a record high of 64 back in 1906. Wishful thinking.