Good morning! Happy Wolf Moon 🌕 ! I wonder what Sauk County’s 🐮 most famous resident, Aldo Leopold would have to say about such things? 🐺 I bet if he was still around, he’d be saying thing that made both liberals and conservatives hate him – uncomfortable truths. Five weeks to Average High is 40 ☀️ . That just seems depressing at this point. Overcast, and 23 degrees in Delmar. ☁ I don’t understand where the sun is? Must be the Trumpster’s fault. There is a northwest breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. The current wind chill is 7. There are 4 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️The skies will clear around 9 am.

So the million dollar question, is where is the sun? 🌥 I thought today was supposed to be sunny and nice but cold. I want a little bit of sun so my battery bank in my truck gets a bit of a trickle charge, so I don’t lug the batteries too hard with the starter or have a sluggish start. 🔋 While I don’t really expect difficulty starting, I don’t like to turn-over the engine without a good solidly charged battery. I cleaned off the truck and solar panel yesterday, so things should top off once the sun comes out. 😎 And I’m sure that thanks to this blog post, I will get dozens of advertisements about car batteries that are on sale. 🤬 I probably wouldn’t have even noticed any issue had I not had all those meters all over my truck and probably some vampire loads I could disconnect but they don’t really harm anything, especially when the panel is topping off the full bank.

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 24 degrees at 2pm. Seven degrees below normal. Northwest wind 9 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. 🌬 And the wind chills will get more noticeable later. Albany Police take notice, that’s 2 miles over the speed limit. 🚓 A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 37 degrees. The record high of 56 was set in 1916. 9.6 inches of snow fell back in 1897.❄

Going to be a cold day 🍃 but I’m really hoping on sun ☀ later. I plan on going to the store 🏬 during lunch time and then to the library during the afternoon. 📚 Probably won’t spend a great deal of time there because it’s kind of cold ❄ although not as bad as tomorrow. I’m going to notch the heat up a few degrees too, so things don’t get too cold inside, and the landlord asked that I keep the cabinets under the sink open so they don’t freeze. Tomorrow I’ll probably stay home except for the morning walk. Last night I skipped the walk — I was feeling kind of lazy and was concerned about slipping on the ice.

I sent in $15 in memory of Mr. Franz for the local foodbank.🍓🍏🍒 I think it’s nice that he asked that donations be made to the local foodbank in his name.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:09 pm with sun having an altitude of 29.3° from the due south horizon (-41.5° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 10.7 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:22 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (239°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (246°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:04 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 10 seconds with dusk around 5:33 pm, which is one minute and 18 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Wolf Full 🐺🌝 Moon in the east-northeast (67°) at an altitude of 7° from the horizon, 238,139 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:08 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 21 degrees. The wind chill around sunset will be 6. ☃️ Breezy, 18 mph breeze ⛅ from the northwest with gusts up to 33mph. Today will have 9 hours and 51 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 14 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 3 degrees at 6am. 12 degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around -14 at 6am. How negative an outlook to have. Northwest wind 15 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. In 2020, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 19 degrees. The record low of -10 occurred back in 1925.

Cool this weekend with temperatures running 13 degrees below normal but otherwise sunny. 🌬 Saturday, sunny, with a high near 17. Northwest wind 8 to 10 mph. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 20. ☀ Typical average high for the weekend is 31 degrees. I’ll have to think about my plans. Not quite as windy this weekend, so maybe I’ll get out somewhere this weekend. Normally on these cold weekends I walk down to the library but we aren’t living in normal times. Maybe I’ll do Five Rivers, or the rail trail is fairly protected from the wind in the gorge, but I don’t like how it’s gotten so overridden by yuppies lately.

🌹🌻🌼Only 51 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼That means tomorrow will be 50 days, and Saturday will be seven weeks. Dully noted. Good for hauling water and heavy equipment, but stay out of the mud, so you don’t sink out of sight. Don’t ask me how I know.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Don’t Cry over Spilled Milk Day 🥛 when the sun will be setting at 5:22 pm with dusk at 5:51 pm. On that day in 2020, we had cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 39 and 34 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 34 degrees. We hit a record high of 59 back in 1981.