Good afternoon! Happy Daylight Savings Time. 🌇 I hope you you remembered to set your clocks 🕒 an hour later, spring ahead. Cloudy, damp and 35 degrees in Delmar. ☁ I think we are probably done with the snow for the day. There is a south-southeast breeze at 14 mph. 🍃. There are 4.5 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 11 pm. ☃️

The time ⌚ has changed. Definitely looking forward to the longer evenings. Now the snow just has to melt and things need to warm up so I can go down to the park after work. 📔Yeah this morning was darker but really not that bad although you could make the case with the clouds ☁ it was a fairly dark morning. I made it a priority though to get to bed earlier 💤and get up early in the morning so I’m on that schedule going forward. Plus I didn’t want to sleep in all day as I have a lot to do today.

This afternoon will rain and sleet likely, becoming all rain after 1pm. Cloudy 🌧, with a high of 41 degrees at 4pm. One degrees below normal, which is similiar to a typical day around March 9th. Southeast wind 13 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Total daytime sleet accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible. A year ago, we had cloudy in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. The high last year was 38 degrees. The record high of 72 was set in 1977. 5.7 inches of snow fell back in 1964.❄

Talking the bus downtown 🚍 to go over to John Wolcott’s house 🏡 to keep going over his files. I thought 💭 driving there and then washing my truck but the turn over to rain happened too late and the roads are still covered with salt. The weekend buses are quick and I enjoy a little walk.

The sun will set at 6:56 pm with dusk around 7:24 pm, which is one hour, one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 38 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 11 hours and 41 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 46 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of rain showers, possibly mixing with snow after 10pm, then gradually ending. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 33 degrees at 5am. Nine degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical night around April 3rd. My heating bills appreciate that fact. 😁South wind 7 to 10 mph becoming west after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. In 2018, we had mostly clear in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 28 degrees. The record low of -10 occurred back in 1939.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of showers after 1pm. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 46 degrees at 3pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical day around March 19th. Breezy, with a west wind 10 to 15 mph increasing to 17 to 22 mph in the morning. Going to pretty mild but the breeze could make it feel cooler with the melting snow. Winds could gust as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had cloudy in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. The high last year was 36 degrees. The record high of 70 was set in 1977. 4.1 inches of snow fell back in 1941.❄

Today in 1969, in Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to recant.😳 Fifty years ago today. What a jerk, such different times although I don’t think Americans are any less angry 😡 today. Progress fifty years later isn’t that great.

It was definitely nice spending time up in Clarksville then Partridge Run yesterday.🎿I really miss getting out of town and spending time in the country – the last big trip I took was out to Madison County right before New Years Eve.🌲🐮 I will definitely be doing some more traveling and nights 🌃 out in the wilderness come a few more weeks. I liked seeing the cows along the Bennett Hill Trail and especially the hills and remote country around Huntersland. I’d love 😍 to live out in an area like that eventually but not in New York State.

I didn’t get that much of a sun burn although I picked up a bit of a tan. 😎 Some parts skiing 🎿 were more difficult than others only fell twice, I can be a bit of a klutz on the skis if I’m not careful. 😳 Some places the snow was a bit difficult to go through, other areas were quite nice. I thought about going to the Catskills today, maybe North South Lake but I was happy to explore a part of Partridge Run I hadn’t been in a while.

This year I want to explore and see more different places. I’m really getting bored with always going to the same places all the time. ⛺ I know there are many options, I just got to think about them more. 💭 I’m starting to think maybe in the autumn to go down to Southern Ohio.

So far next Saturday looks fairly decent. 😍 Saturday, scattered showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 47. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Sunday, Typical average high is 44 degrees. Finally a break from the cold and snow but that could change.

Next Sunday is St. Patrick’s Day 🀼when the sun will be setting at 7:04 pm with dusk at 7:32 pm. On that day in 2018, we had mostly sunny, snow showers and temperatures between 38 and 15 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 45 degrees. We hit a record high of 75 back in 1990.

In four weeks on April 7 the sun will be setting at 7:28 pm,🌄 which is 32 minutes and 20 seconds later then today. In 2018 on that day, we had cold, partly sunny, snow showers and temperatures between 40 and 25 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 55 and 34 degrees. The record high of 87 degrees was set back in 2010.

Looking ahead, St. Patrick’s Day 🍀 is in 1 week, 7:30 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 4 weeks, Palm Sunday 🌴 is in 5 weeks, Easter 🐰 is in 6 weeks, Cinco de Mayo 🤠 is in 8 weeks, Mothers Day 👩‍ is in 9 weeks and Fathers Day 👨 is in 14 weeks.