Good morning! Fog and 40 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌫 Calm wind. I can taste the silage on the air. 🌽 Temperatures will drop below freezing at Saturday around 4 am. ☃️

I don’t know it feels warmer than that in the land of the Delmaritian ♨ but certainly darker than that. It will certainly be colder than that by the weekend but still above average. I figure they’re saving the really cold weather for my birthday 🎂. It won’t be forty out when I turn 40.

Today will have a chance of rain, mainly before 7am. Cloudy 🌧, with a high of 47 degrees at 12pm. 14 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 20th. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 38 degrees. The record high of 64 was set in 1950. 8.0 inches of snow fell back in 1891.❄

I failed to go for my evening walk 🚶. I was bad, a failure and a looser. So at six o’clock I had to go to Stewart’s and get milk 🥛 so I’d have it for the all important coffee ☕ and bisquick biscuits with cheese 🧀. All the essentials in the dairy world. And you wonder why I’m so fat. I am out for my morning walk 🚶 now so hopefully once again I’ll get my steps 👣 in. Still breaking in the boots 👢.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:01 pm with sun having an altitude of 24.8° from the due south horizon (-46.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 13 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:51 pm with the sun in the southwest (232°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (239°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:36 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 22 seconds with dusk around 5:07 pm, which is 57 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇

At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the east-northeast (68°) at an altitude of 17° from the horizon, 250,725 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:44 pm. At sunset, look for cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 46 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 15 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 4 seconds over today.

Took care of the dentist bill I got yesterday. Last summer my insurer sent me a check for the “out-of-network” visit because my dentist screwed up the paperwork. I set the check I got aside and then waited to hear from the dentist. The bill was the same as the check, so I just online paid my dentist and deposited the check. I thought about getting the SEFCU app and doing a mobile deposit, but I don’t trust my phone is secure, that is compared to my computer that is offline a lot of time, and I keep up to date with Linux security updates.

Tomorrow is the rescheduled holiday party at work 🍪 🎄 so I’m going to need to get to the store 🏬 tonight. Been running low on groceries for a while as I did only a quick shop last week after washing my truck and returning the shit ton of beer cans that had been accumulating since spring. ♻

Tonight will have a slight chance of rain before 7pm, then a chance of showers between 7pm and 4am, then a chance of rain after 4am. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 36 degrees at 6am. 19 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 12th. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2022, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 26 degrees. The record low of -19 occurred back in 1996.

The weekend has slid down hill somewhat since earlier this week. 😕 Saturday, a slight chance of rain and snow showers before 11am, then a slight chance of rain showers between 11am and 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 40. West wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 36. But still quiet mild. Typical average high for the weekend is 33 degrees.

Saturday I plan to join my mom at her birthday party and then Sunday I am going up to Colonie to find some more dress shirts and also to visit John Wolcott. I had planned on getting a dress shirt online but it’s so hard to know what size to order and it just seems like ordering online is such a gamble. I did some looking though, and maybe I should just take the risk and order one online. Sears is closed now, but I was reading online that Boscovs and Macys also sell dress shirts, and I can try one out there. I don”t want to spend a lot of money, but I do want comfortable button down collar shirts I can wear with a tie and sport-coat for work. Can’t totally look like a hillbilly on session days.

Looking ahead, next Thursday is Coldest Day Recorded in Albany 💨 when the sun will be setting at 4:45 pm with dusk at 5:14 pm. On that day in 2022, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 31 and 6 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 33 degrees. We hit a record high of 67 back in 2020. I think it’s likely we will be closer to the 2020 record then that one from 1970 but only will tell.