Good morning! What day is it? Metrological spring of course. 🌸 But I expect we will have to wait six or seven weeks before that’s really meaningful in Albany. Especially as they keep promising a cold spring until that’s no longer the case.

It’s March 🗓 a month that often quickly leads to April 🌷 or do I like to tell myself. In two weeks the morning walk will be a lot more dark assuming that I don’t change when I walk 🚶 which may be necessary for a few weeks. But brighter evenings are nice.

Partly clear with a colorful sunrise 🌅 around 27 degrees for the morning walk 🚶 in Delmar. Some snow fog in the air from the moisture from yesterday’s mini snow storm. There is a northwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. There are 6 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at around 9 am. 🌡️

I haven’t had pancakes 🥞 in a while so I think that’s breakfast today. Shower 🚿 and catch the express bus 🚍 downtown. Rinse and repeat the work thing 🏢 downtown.

Today will have a chance of rain, mainly after 3pm. Increasing clouds 🌞👉 🌥 , with a high of 40 degrees at 2pm. Typical for today. Can’t do better than average? Lame. Light and variable wind becoming southeast 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 41 degrees. The record high of 66 was set in 2017. 10.7 inches of snow fell back in 2005.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:09 pm with sun having an altitude of 39.7° from the due south horizon (-31.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 7.2 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:07 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (254°). 📸

The sunset is in the west (261°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:45 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 57 seconds with dusk around 6:12 pm, which is one minute and 14 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the east-southeast (115°) at an altitude of 63° from the horizon, 250,634 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:46 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 38 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 11 hours and 16 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 51 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of rain and snow before 8pm, then a chance of rain, snow, and sleet between 8pm and midnight, then a chance of rain and sleet after midnight. Cloudy , with a low of 33 degrees at 8pm. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 5th. South wind 8 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Little or no snow and sleet accumulation expected. In 2022, we had light snow in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 9 degrees. The record low of -4 occurred back in 1940. You really don’t have many exceptional cold nights come March as the sun angle is too strong and the ground too warm.

Rain, snow and clouds for the weekend. 😞 Saturday, rain and snow, mainly before 1pm. High near 35. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Sunday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 38. Typical average high for the weekend is 41 degrees.

Attention friendly strangers in black sedans, there are 2 weeks until Ides of March ✝ when the sun will be setting at 7:02 pm with dusk at 7:29 pm (Daylight Savings Time). On that day in 2022, we had cold, mostly sunny and temperatures between 30 and 11 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 45 degrees. We hit a record high of 72 back in 2019.