Good morning! An icy start to this Wednesday. ❄ Slip sliding our way into the mid week. How icy are the sidewalks? Well maybe not the dire emergency that the news 📰 media is proclaiming but they were bad enough that after slipping and falling on the driveway and then trying again with the microspikes which suck on asphalt and concrete I just gave up on the walk and went back inside. Put on my suit and tie 🧑🏻‍💼 showered 🚿 and walked very carefully down to the bus stop 🚏though not exactly in that order.

Cloudy, icy and 34 degrees in Bethlehem, NY. ☔ There is a southwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 2 am. ☃️

Today will have a slight chance of showers before 9am. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 43 degrees at 12pm. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 9th. Southwest wind 6 to 14 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. That should help with the ice. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 34 degrees. The record high of 59 was set in 1973. 7.9 inches of snow fell back in 1891.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:06 pm with sun having an altitude of 26.8° from the due south horizon (-44° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 11.9 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:07 pm with the sun in the southwest (235°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (242°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:51 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 16 seconds with dusk around 5:21 pm, which is one minute and 13 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:56 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 42 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 13 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 32 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 47 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 30 degrees at 5am. 15 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 27th. Northwest wind 5 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. In 2022, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became light snow by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 20 degrees. The record low of -28 occurred back in 1971.

The weekend forecast is everything you can expect of recent January’s. 🌥 I’m giving the month ownership of the weather not the warming climate. Saturday, cloudy, with a high near 35. Sunday, a chance of rain after 1pm. Cloudy, with a high near 39. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Typical average high for the weekend is 32 degrees.

Some good news is that l, next Wednesday is the 5 PM Sunset 🀼/strong>󑰠when the sun will be setting at 5:00 pm with dusk at 5:29 pm. On that day in 2022, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 29 and 5 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 32 degrees. We hit a record high of 61 back in 1938.