Good morning! Happy Sunday. Next Sunday is 5:30 PM Dusk 🌆. Cloudy and 33 degrees in Delmaritian. ❄ There is a southwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. There are 3 1/2 inches of snow on the ground, but it alrasty warm enough that the roads are just wet and with the sun out the snow isn’t expected to last long – the first half of next week will be cool – but come Wednesday we will have temperatures more like March than January. ☃ ️

Still not feeling great 😷 but its tough in the winter with the stuffy inside air. I still got up at 6:30 am and made up cornbread 🍞 waffles but I sure feel congested. Nice and warm in the apartment as I turned the heat up yesterday and it’s mild enough this morning that it’s clicked off and well into the mid 60s in my bedroom.

Riding the exercise bike 🚲 and its working good and fairly quiet after lubrication but there is a bit of a rubbing noise from the brake which I set to add more resistance to the pedaling for more cardiovascular effort. I should see if my parents have some unused weights I could use or maybe I could use those big heavy brake disc’s for lifting that is once I clean off all the dust. Lifting those would probably be quite good for upper body strength 💪. Using the brake disc’s might be a better idea as they are something I already have and don’t need more stuff.

Today will become partly sunny 🌦 later on, with a high of 36 degrees at 11am. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 19th. Again not real cold but the wind will make it a bit nippy. Southwest wind 5 to 14 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became light snow by afternoon. The high last year was 31 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1929. 8.5 inches of snow fell back in 1886.❄

I should go to the store today as I’m really low on dairy products 🐮, I don’t have any cheese or butter which is no fun for sure. I am thinking about getting the stuff to bake bread 🍞 because I haven’t done that in years and I never have bread at home except when my parents give me left over rolls half of which end of getting moldy and tossed into the compost.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:07 pm with sun having an altitude of 27° from the due south horizon (-43.9° vs. 6/21). The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:08 pm with the sun in the southwest (235°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (243°) starting at 4:48 pm and lasts for 3 minutes and 16 seconds with dusk around 5:22 pm, which is one minute and 13 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:57 pm. At sunset, look for some remaining snow showers around 🌨 and temperatures around 30 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 13 mph with gusts up to 28mph. Today will have 9 hours and 30 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 48 seconds over yesterday.

Maybe I’ll also go skiing 🎿. If I do that I’ll probably go down to Schodack Island State Park assuming there is enough sun ☀ and the snow doesn’t melt right away. I’m not super sick but with my head congestion I don’t want to over exhaust myself and get sick. 😷

I should do some cleaning today and reading too later. 📖 Maybe get out my soldering iron and repair my wall display. May continue to scrub the soap scum off the walls of my bathroom 🛀

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 12 degrees at 6am. Two degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around 1 at 5am; Northwest wind 8 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Going to be fairly cold night and the same is true for Kings birthday 👑. In 2019, we had light snow in the evening, which became snow by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 0 degrees. The record low of -22 occurred back in 1970.

🌹🌻🌼Only 60 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

That’s always a good sign. 🌷Not sure how long this winter will last but I can’t believe we will get away without at least one more big storm and a cold period. I really am not planning on many big trips until April, as March is always busy at work, even with my new job if only for different reasons.

As previously noted, next Sunday is 5:30 PM Dusk 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 5:00 pm with dusk at 5:30 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 28 and 14 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 31 degrees. We hit a record high of 59 back in 1950.