Good morning! Happy Thursday. 🙂 Sunny and not too cold without any wind. A pleasant morning for January. Two weeks to Save the Pine Bush Turns 42 🦋. Partly sunny and 18 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind.There are 2 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out around 10 am. 🌡️

Woke up this morning and I was surprisingly groggy. 😴 Not sure why but the coffee certainly helped. ☕ It was a bit of a run to the bus stop 🚏but I made it in time and double checked to make sure the waffle iron, stove and refrigerator were closed or off as they should be. The heat was turned down and porch light is switched on so it will come on at dusk. 💡

Today will have increasing clouds ☁, with a high of 40 degrees at 1pm. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 4th. Calm wind. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning, which became light rain by afternoon. The high last year was 40 degrees. The record high of 64 was set in 1906. 10.6 inches of snow fell back in 1963.❄

So a nice start to the morning but it’s not expected to last. ⛅ But at least it will be relatively mild and give the heat a little bit of a break. Sun is certainly nice pouring through the bus window. Gives me hope that maybe the Ground Hog 🐻won’t see his shadow and maybe spring is just around the corner. Maybe that’s wishful thinking 💭 but all things must past and you must embrace things before they’re forever gone.

I can complain about the January weather and all things Albany but when the time comes to move on you know I’ll probably miss it a lot 🌉. Chet’s from Save the Pine Bush death is sad 😐 and Resin Adam’s is so elderly now. It’s 2020 and so much of the old world I once knew it’s fading in the distance, although it would be a mistake to say that the olden days were golden. 🌇 Looking forward to my 37th birthday next week 🎂 although I’m looking more forward to a few more years out when I can own my own land. 🏡

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:08 pm with sun having an altitude of 27.9° from the due south horizon (-43° vs. 6/21). The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:14 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (237°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (244°) starting at 4:53 pm and lasts for 3 minutes and 14 seconds with dusk around 5:26 pm, which is one minute and 16 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:02 pm. At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 38 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 9 hours and 38 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes over yesterday.

Tonight will be cloudy, then gradual clearing toward daybreak 🌃, with a low of 17 degrees at 6am. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around February 11th. Calm wind. In 2019, we had light rain. It got down to 32 degrees. The record low of -17 occurred back in 1948.

Sloppy weekend in tap for the Pine Bush hike. 🌲🌲👪 Saturday, snow likely before 10am, then rain and snow likely between 10am and noon, then rain after noon. High near 39. East wind 3 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. Sunday, rain and snow showers likely, becoming all rain after 10am. Cloudy, with a high near 39. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Typical average high for the weekend is 31 degrees.

🌹🌻🌼Only 56 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Save the Pine Bush Turns 42 🦋 when the sun will be setting at 5:14 pm with dusk at 5:44 pm. On that day in 2019, we had rain and temperatures between 37 and 25 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 33 degrees. We hit a record high of 55 back in 1991.