Good morning! Happy St. Patrick’s Day 🍀! I don’t think beer 🍻 much less cheap beer died green in a polystyrene cup but I do like the idea 💡 of people celebrating their heritage and community. Three weeks to 7:30 PM Sunset 🌇.Dusk at that point will be almost at eight. Mostly summy and 33 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a west-northwest breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. Going to be another fairly raw March day.

Kind of chilly waking up this morning. ❄ I’m thinking the heat 🔥 must have kicked on for a while last night but I can’t imagine it ran too much but it’s still a chilly 54 degrees in my bedroom. I can’t wait until winter is permanently done. At least with the sun ☀ I expect most of next week won’t push the heat too hard but I doubt I’ll be keeping the windows open at all. ⬛

Today will have a slight chance of snow showers before 11am. Partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 36 degrees at 4pm. Nine degrees below normal, which is similiar to a typical day around February 22nd. It could be worse, but I’m tired of February weather. Get me some June weather. Northwest wind 10 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had partly cloudy in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. The high last year was 38 degrees. The record high of 75 was set in 1990. 4.1 inches of snow fell back in 1982.❄ Getting to that time of year when snow records aren’t that big of deal.

With my frying 🍳 pan reseasoned, and no longer tasting like rotten eggs and mildew, I made up another delicious breakfast of blueberry pancakes. No more abuse of cast iron, I promise. I can’t tell if my frying pan is an authentic Griswold but if it is it actually is a fairly valuable collectable. I have my doubts – it’s a hand me down from my parents but after the bankruptcy of Griswold in 1950s many clones were made. It’s a good quality clone if it’s real. I don’t use Teflon as I always scratch it up so I just have to make sure the cast iron pots are well lubricated.

Heading out now for a walk 🚶 on the rail 🚈 trail. 👟 Cold but sunny with the wind 🍃. Fresh air is good. Then in the afternoon I might go for a short hike at Keleher Preserve then out to my parents house for Saint Patricks Day dinner. 🍀I want to be home by 7:30 so I don’t have to drive home in the dark if possible although tonight shouldn’t be too dark with the moon light. 🌔 Skipping shopping for the week as I have most the groceries I need and I’m trying to stretch my budget so I can make it through April.

The sun will set at 7:04 pm with dusk around 7:32 pm, which is one minute and 10 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 31 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 12 hours and one minute of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 55 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 21 degrees at 4am. Five degrees below normal, which is similiar to a typical night around March 3rd. Maximum wind chill around 24 at 6pm; Northwest wind 5 to 8 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. In 2018, we had clear in the evening, which became mostly sunny by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 7 degrees. The record low of -8 occurred back in 1900.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until 7:30 PM Sunset 🌇 when the sun will be setting at 7:28 pm with dusk at 7:57 pm. On that day in 2018, we had a rather cold but sunny day with occasional snow showers and temperatures between 40 and 25 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 55 degrees. We hit a record high of 87 back in 2010. Anything can happen in early April.