Good evening! Mostly cloudy and 30 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south-southwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. There is a dusting of snow on the grass and some black ice around – be aware. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 10 am. 🌡️

I rode the exercise bike for a while, having a late dinner with a pork roast in the oven. 🚲 The nice thing is I’ll have a good dinner again later in, maybe two hours earlier than today. I also went for my evening walk and caught up on the YouTube videos that I had downloaded. Yeah, I probably watch too many hours of Westin Champlain, mostly because I was watching a stupid tractor 🚜 video and I got hooked. Then there was that video about field dressing a deer. Never cut up anything that large 🔪but at least YouTube made it look easy. After reading that book 📙 on butchering it makes a whole lot more sense now. Meat science is fascinating 🍖, you really learn a lot more about what makes up an animal.

Tonight will have isolated snow showers between 1am and 2am. Partly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 25 degrees at 5am. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 14th. Maximum wind chill around 22 at 3am; Southwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming calm after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2019, we had light snow in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 14 degrees. The record low of -12 occurred back in 1878.

Tonight will have a Waxing 🌖 Moon with 84% illuminated. At dusk you’ll see the moon in the east-southeast (104°) at an altitude of 39° from the horizon, some 244,649 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀A bit farther away tonight. The Wolf 🐺 Moon is on Friday, January 10. Kind of pretty when I was out on my walk. The darkest hour is at 12:02 am, followed by dawn at 6:54 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:26 am in the east-southeast (121°) and last for 3 minutes and 23 seconds. Sunrise is 6 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 8:11 am with sun in the southeast (128°) at an altitude of 6°. Tonight will have 14 hours and 48 minutes of darkness, a decrease of one minute and 7 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have increasing clouds ☁, with a high of 37 degrees at 2pm. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 23rd. Calm wind. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 29 degrees. The record high of 56 was set in 1915. 7.2 inches of snow fell back in 1994.❄

I ordered a small USB hub from China to use with my laptop at work a month ago but it still hasn’t arrived. 🔌 I probably didn’t save much over ebay or even Walmart but I figured I could wait by the end I’m a bit frustrated about it now. Only two bucks and usually I have good luck with AliExpress but maybe not this time. Now that they are charging tax and shipping prices are going up on things from China thanks to Trump 🎺 I might not use them so much although it’s at still the best site for random, lightly packaged basic electronics components from China. I was thinking I should get out my soldering iron and do more electronics projects at home again.

In four weeks on February 3 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (248°) at 5:10 pm,🌄 which is 33 minutes and 52 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly cloudy weather, with mild temperatures between 45 and 31 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 32 and 15 degrees. The record high of 57 degrees was set back in 2016.

Looking ahead, Make Your Dream Come True Day 🏡 is in 1 week, National Popcorn Day 🍿 is in 2 weeks, National Pie Day 🍰 is in 2 weeks, Clean Your Computer Day 🧹 is in 5 weeks, Presidents Day 👴 is in 6 weeks, Read Across America Day 📚 is in 8 weeks, Worm Moon 🌕 is in 9 weeks, Arbor Day 🌳 is in 16 weeks, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 17 weeks, Flower Moon 🌕 is in 19 weeks, Memorial Day 🇺🇸 is in 20 weeks, June 🍹 is in 21 weeks and Average High is 80 🏖 is in 24 weeks.

I better get some sleep. Goodnight. 😴