Good evening! Clear and 31 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌌 There is a north breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 11 am. 🌡️ Beautiful day followed by a nice evening walk, although one filled with much concern as the Coronavirus crisis deepen.

Had a nice hike up Bennett Hill but it was crowded. 👪 14 cars in the parking 🅿 area, a lot of bored families looking for something to do with all activities and events canceled. ⛔ I had a nice Saint Patrick’s Day dinner with the folks 🍀and went for my evening walk. Started out the day at the Albany Pine Bush Preserve.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 17 degrees at 6am. Nine degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around February 16th. North wind around 6 mph. Cold night ahead, the heat is back on. ♨ In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 31 degrees. The record low of 4 occurred back in 1980.

Tonight will have a Last Quarter 🌗 Moon with 54% illuminated. The Blue 🌝 Moon is on Monday, March 30. The darkest hour is at 1:05 am, followed by dawn at 6:39 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:08 am in the east (92°) and last for 2 minutes and 53 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 44 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:45 am with sun in the east (98°). Tonight will have 12 hours and one minute of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 56 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 44 degrees at 5pm. Typical for tomorrow. Light and variable wind becoming south 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. All and all a pretty decent day. A year ago, we had rain in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 46 degrees. The record high of 82 was set in 1990. 13.4 inches of snow fell back in 1956.❄

At one level the media hysteria is well overblown 📺 but all the evidence points to the virus 👾burning through the human population, taking a great deal of the sick and elderly 👴 with it. I’ve been skeptical about the efforts to slow the rampaging virus down by shutting down most of the societal institutions but truth be told, it rather frightening. Regardless it’s kind of frightening times and things might be very different when it’s all over.

In four weeks on April 12 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (283°) at 7:34 pm,🌄 which is 32 minutes and 6 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 60 and 40 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 57 and 36 degrees. The record high of 84 degrees was set back in 1977.

Looking ahead, Palm Sunday 🌴 is in 3 weeks, Tax Day 💰 is a month away, Easter 🐰 is in 4 weeks, Mothers Day 👩‍ is in 8 weeks, Pack Rat Day 🐀 is in 9 weeks, Strawberry Moon 🌕 is in 12 weeks and Fathers Day 👨 is in 13 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 67 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸