Good morning! Monday’s come back around again. We all knew it would happen but did we actually believe it on Friday? Mostly cloudy and 30 degrees in Delmar. ☁ There is a west-southwest breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. There are 3 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at around 10 am. 🌡️

Kind of a cold and damp morning. 🌅 Of course we can discuss the meaning of cold come the weekend when the first cold blast of the season really comes. Seems like in recent years the really cold weather happens after the Ground Hog 🐻 see his shadow.

Enjoy one more mild day. ☺ Today will have a slight chance of rain and snow showers between 1pm and 2pm, then a chance of rain showers. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a high of 37 degrees at 2pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 18th. West wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with sunny skies in the afternoon. The high last year was 17 degrees. The record high of 56 was set in 2013. 11.0 inches of snow fell back in 1966.❄

Back to work after turning forty. It’s the usual Monday routine. 🧑🏻‍💼I boiled my muzzles yesterday while unpacking my camping 🏕 gear and I’m doing the morning walk 🚶 after having biscuits and oranges 🍊for breakfast. My jacket still smells like the weekend that was 🔥 but will air out as the week goes on. Shower, iron put on my politicians suit and take the local downtown to my office 🏢 and water the plants. 🌱 Work, work, work 📄 and get paid Tuesday and invest two thirds of that towards a better tomorrow.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:09 pm with sun having an altitude of 29.7° from the due south horizon (-41.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 10.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:24 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (239°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (247°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:06 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 10 seconds with dusk around 5:35 pm, which is one minute and 18 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇

At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the east-southeast (119°) at an altitude of 59° from the horizon, 245,505 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:10 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and snow 🌨 and temperatures around 36 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 9 hours and 59 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 19 seconds over yesterday.

The three day weekend that I invented was nice though nothing that special for my birthday. 🎂 The skiing 🎿 was great especially on Friday and it was mild and sunny 🌞 for Saturday but Rennselearville is only 32 minutes from home so it’s not that much of a trip. But I had my fires 🔥 burned up all that paper and burnables, had a few drinks 🍻 and some nice meals. 🍴 Did a lot of skiing and a nice hike on Sunday though nothing extraordinary.

My phone service keeps dropping out in Delmar 📱 which has been annoying. 📶 Not sure what the problem is though I heard Verizon has had capacity issues lately. I know my cheap service gets the lowest priority and I live on the outskirts of town where service is a bit spotty but it’s been good over the decade and a half I’ve had it. 🤷‍♂️

Tonight will have a chance of rain and snow showers before 8pm, then a chance of snow showers between 8pm and 2am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 24 degrees at 6am. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 8th. Northwest wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible. In 2022, we had clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 7 degrees. The record low of -26 occurred back in 1948.

I don’t think today will be a good one to go to the car wash 🚿 but maybe tomorrow before it gets too cold out. Shopping 🛒 on Friday I tried to get everything I would need for the week but some things inevitably got left off the list 📃. I’ve misplaced my needles and need to pick some up to fix a shirt. 🪡 So maybe Tuesday after work.

Frigid weekend ahead. ❄ Saturday, sunny, with a high near 13. That’s cold. Sunday, a chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 37. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Typical average high for the weekend is 34 degrees. I guess if I don’t want my pipes to freeze I’m going to have to turn the heat above 48 degrees feel like a husky on a hot summer day. 🐺 It’s been such a mild winter though no 70 degrees days like that year a few years ago.

Next Monday Save the Pine Bush Turns 45 🦋 when the sun will be setting at 5:16 pm with dusk at 5:44 pm. Makes me feel young. On that day in 2022, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 36 and 12 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 34 degrees. We hit a record high of 55 back in 1991.