Good morning! This rather chilly Monday marks the final day of Winter 2018. At least it’s mostly sunny and 17 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a north-northwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 1 pm. 🌡️

🌹🌻🌼If today is the final day of calendar winter, only 1 day remains until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

Today will be sunny 🌞 , with a high of 32 degrees at 3pm. 14 degrees below normal. Northwest wind 6 to 9 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 44 degrees. Even that is a bit below normal. The record high of 78 was set in 2012. 9.6 inches of snow fell back in 1971.❄

The sun will set at 7:07 pm with dusk around 7:35 pm, which is one minute and 10 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for clear skies and 28 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 12 hours and 8 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 55 seconds over yesterday. The days may not be getting much warmer but at least the sun is setting later.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌞 , with a low of 15 degrees at 5am. 12 degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around 9 at 5am; Northwest wind 3 to 7 mph. In 2017, we had clear skies. It got down to 19 degrees. The record low of 2 occurred back in 1967.

I expect a long week at work, but hopefully I will get home at a reasonable hour at least a few times this week. 💼 At this point, I’m not defining a reasonable hour but I guess it’s while the sun is still up. I don’t know, we will see. I guess if I have to work late, it’s best that it’s in late March when the weather is crappy.

The bus was pretty much on time this morning, 🚍which made me happy. There was a great big funeral precession heading downtown while I was waiting for the bus 🚏on this fairly cold morning. Lots of blue sky.

I really enjoyed that trip out to the Helderbergs.🗻 I don’t get out nearly enough to the mountains in the winter even though I spend a great deal of time working on maps and looking at photos from past road trips. 🌎

Looking ahead, there are 10 weeks until Memorial Day 🇺🇸 when the sun will be setting at 8:23 pm with dusk at 8:57 pm. On that day in 2017, we had cloudy skies and temperatures between 74 and 60 degrees.🏊 I am looking forward to the Black Flies and mud. Hopefully this year won’t be as wet as last year. Nah, probably it will be super dry and a burn ban for a change. Never is it a reasonably nice weather. 🚣Typically, the high temperature is 73 degrees. We hit a record high of 93 back in 2016.💙 I actually enjoyed that nice warm Memorial Day. I think I was camping that year at the Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont too. Been doing that a lot the past few years. It’s close and honestly Memorial Day Weekend camping tends to be pretty marginal with the Black Flies 🐜and some years the tent catapillars. 🐛