Good morning! The mothership came and departed and now it’s a Happy Get Away Thursday. Next Thursday is Spring 🌷. That said today is going to feel like a spring day once the sun comes out. Mostly cloudy and 35 degrees in Delmar. ☁ There is a south breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. There is a just a few piles of snow on the ground. ☃ Temperatures will drop below freezing at Saturday around 10 pm. ☃️

I really struggled to get up this morning. 😴 I did make the bus 🚍 but it was tight. I had to open up my last Sears shirt 👚 and iron it, wasn’t easy getting going. Made waffles, had a quick shower 🚿 and ran down to the bus.

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 56 degrees at 4pm. 13 degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical day around April 10th. South wind 5 to 11 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny in the morning, which became light snow by afternoon. The high last year was 35 degrees. The record high of 75 was set in 1946. 17.0 inches of snow fell back in 2017.❄

Maybe finally we will have the early spring the Ground Hog promised. 🐻 The snow is rapidly melting away, mostly the piles left by the plows. Mud is starting to pop up everywhere, although we didn’t get much rain last night as some places did leading to flooding. Lot less snow than a year ago, when we were digging out from a March snowstorm.

The sun will set at 7:00 pm with dusk around 7:28 pm, which is one minute and 10 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 52 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 13 mph. Today will have 11 hours and 53 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly after 4am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 47 degrees at 10pm. 22 degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical night around May 15th. South wind around 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2018, we had mostly clear in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 30 degrees. The record low of 1 occurred back in 1993.

Tomorrow will have showers likely, mainly between 8am and 1pm. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 64 degrees at 3pm. 20 degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical day around April 28th. Maximum dew point of 50 at 11am. South wind 11 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny in the morning, which became light snow by afternoon. The high last year was 39 degrees. The record high of 72 was set in 1989. 10.4 inches of snow fell back in 1916.❄

It looks like this month’s somewhat milder weather and my use of less heat 🔥 helped save some money. The power and gas bill last month was only $83 which was a refreshing change from the $103 the previous month. With milder weather on tap the next few weeks, hopefully it will fall even lower. I like having one of the lowest bills in the neighborhood, especially because I don’t believe in air conditioning.

I got the cellphone battery I ordered from ebay the other day. I haven’t installed it yet as I want to let it fully charge before use. 🔋 Hopefully it will last longer than my current one.

Skipped my walk last night. It just got too late, 🌃 as I got working on fixing the bug in the code that sets the timer for the lights. It was just a missing line of code that I accidentally deleted but now it working properly. 💻

Today in 1900, the Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.💱 Some seventy years later the US would leave the gold standard as it really was not a workable idea 💡 by the time the seventies rolled around.

A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 44. Breezy, with a west wind 13 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 39. Typical average high for the weekend is 44 degrees.

In four weeks on April 11 the sun will be setting at 7:33 pm,🌄 which is 32 minutes and 9 seconds later then today. In 2018 on that day, we had cold weather with partly sunny skies and temperatures between 50 and 21 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 56 and 36 degrees. The record high of 87 degrees was set back in 2017.

Looking ahead, Spring 🌷 is in 1 weeks, Average High is 50 🌸 is in 2 weeks, Palm Sunday 🌴 is a month away, Average High is 60 🌼 is in 5 weeks, Average High is 70 🐮 is in 9 weeks, Independence Day 🇺🇸 is in 16 weeks and August 🌻 is in 20 weeks.