Good morning! January is almost done. Tomorrow is February and then Friday it gets cold. But warm next week.

Tuesday. ⚙ Put your foot on the clutch, let the engine slow slightly. Pull the shift lever down let your foot off the clutch and give it some gas. Do it what seems like a million times and it seems like a very natural process.

Snow flurries and 31 degrees in Delmar, NY for the morning walk. ❄ There is a west-northwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. There are 2 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ Bare patches around. ️Things will start to thaw out at Thursday around noontime. 🌡️And then that one very cold night, relatively speaking in the context of the year.

Today will have a chance of snow showers, mainly before 8am. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 32 degrees at 2pm. One degree below normal, which is similar to a typical day around January 25th. Northwest wind 6 to 13 mph becoming north in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 23 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. The high last year was 17 degrees. The record high of 58 was set in 1913. 6.9 inches of snow fell back in 2000.❄

Maybe not the nicest morning ever for the walk 🚶, kind of gray and chilly though not as cold as it can be in the winter. But we are heading into February so that’s to be expected. The next few mornings will be clearer but colder. And what will the Ground Hog 🐻 see on Thursday? Nose 👃 is running a bit in the cold and I had a bit of a headache yesterday but it was a Monday and I’m not a sick puppy 🐶 even if I’m a bit of a redneck and a pyro.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:10 pm with sun having an altitude of 30° from the due south horizon (-40.9° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 10.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:26 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (240°). 📸

The sunset is in the west-southwest (247°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:07 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 9 seconds with dusk around 5:37 pm, which is one minute and 19 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the east-southeast (102°) at an altitude of 52° from the horizon, 247,924 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:11 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 28 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 2 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 20 seconds over yesterday.

Pay day today 💵 and I look rich for five minutes though I think my landlord and my brokerage firm is laughing 😂 and I might have fifty cents 🪙 after I pay down the IRS tax bill lol. One step closer to the future 🔮 I tell myself. I could live out in the country and pay even more in taxes. 🐐 Property taxes are a bitch in New York State. a

Tonight will be cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy ☁, with a low of 14 degrees at 5am. One degree below normal. Maximum wind chill around 15 at 12am; West wind 5 to 8 mph becoming calm after midnight. In 2022, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 10 degrees. The record low of -20 occurred back in 1920.

Brushed the snow off Red 🛻 especially the solar panel so when the sun comes out it can keep the batteries topped off in the cold. With the solar, the truck often starts the best on cold sunny days ☀ as the battery is fully topped off. 🔋 Then it’s just a matter of waiting for the lubrication of the engine to kick in after a second or two.

Cold but sunny for Saturday. ☀ Saturday, sunny and cold, with a high near 10. Warms up come 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 don’t think that quite averages to 34. Little on the low side. National Gird needs their pound of flesh and I need a odd grid cabin out in the country with a wood stove so I can stop paying the heat the earth’s climate.

Looking ahead l, there are 2 weeks until Valentines Day ❤️ when the sun will be setting at 5:27 pm with dusk at 5:54 pm. On that day in 2022, we had mostly cloudy, snow showers and temperatures between 28 and 15 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 36 degrees. We hit a record high of 63 back in 1946.