Good evening! Cloudy, damp and 50 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a south breeze at 9 mph. ☁ Temperatures will drop below freezing at Thursday around 3 am. ☃️

I went over to John Wolcott house 🏡 for a while this afternoon and continued going through his files 📂. Not a lot of very interesting files to be found today but you never know what will turn up. It’s been over a year since I started and were running low on files to go through. Still gotta talk to Lynne about the labels.

Did a little reading 📖 on this Read Across America Day, and I plan to do more reading in the coming weeks especially once it gets a little nicer and I can sit out back with a book 📙.

Missed out on my evening walk 🚶 because by the time I got home and dinner cooked it was after nine. ⌛ Too bad it’s kind of a nice night 🌃 but a bit cloudy and damp.

Progress continues on the code for the historical vs modern ortho photos slider section of the blog. 💻 The slider just uses a jquery library, all the work is adapting the data structure in the blog to handle the multiple photos. But now it’s mostly at the testing stage before I start uploading files.🌐 Getting close though – if I didn’t have to spend so much time fixing my stupid mistakes I could have pushed it live sooner. 🔜

Tonight will have a slight chance of rain before 4am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 39 degrees at 5am. 18 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 19th. South wind 5 to 9 mph becoming light after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2019, we had light snow in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 29 degrees. The record low of -10 occurred back in 1950.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon with 54% illuminated. At 9 PM, the moon was in the west-southwest (252°) at an altitude of 50° from the horizon, some 241,687 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by September 2^nd. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Worm 🐛 Moon is on Monday, March 9. The darkest hour is at 12:08 am, followed by dawn at 6:01 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:30 am in the east (99°) and last for 2 minutes and 56 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 39 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:08 am with sun in the east-southeast (105°). Tonight will have 12 hours and 39 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of rain, mainly after 2pm. Partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 55 degrees at 2pm. 16 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 7th. Light and variable wind becoming southeast around 5 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became light snow by afternoon. The high last year was 39 degrees. The record high of 64 was set in 2002. 10.9 inches of snow fell back in 1994.❄

In four weeks on March 30 the sun will be setting in the west (276°) at 7:19 pm (Daylight Savings Time),🌄 which is one hour, 32 minutes and 50 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny, warm weather for March and temperatures between 71 and 42 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 51 and 31 degrees. The record high of 86 degrees was set back in 1986.

Looking ahead, Worm Moon 🌕 is in 1 week, Arbor Day 🌳 is in 8 weeks, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 9 weeks, Flower Moon 🌕 is in 11 weeks, Memorial Day 🇺🇸 is in 12 weeks, June 🍹 is in 13 weeks and Average High is 80 🏖 is in 16 weeks.

🇺🇸Only 80 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅