Good evening! Mostly cloudy and 46 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind.Temperatures will drop below freezing at Saturday around 5 am. ☃️ Spring officially starts in a few more hour.

One more day until the weekend. ☀ But it was fine day but kind of dark and gray. The afternoon was kind of long with a less than exciting web cast 📺 but still lots of wildlife to watch from my truck. Enough sun that I had sufficient power for my laptop all day but the last hour of the day I once again unplugged my laptop from the inverter. 🔌

That said, I’ll be glad when social distancing is over. 👪 I don’t think it’s going to last that long just because I think people will get fed up with it and the economic toll will only grow by shutdown society and government needs a source of revenue. Unless beds start filling up in hospitals 🏥 it’s going to be hard to politically justify the actions of government. I look forward to taking the bus 🚍 downtown and even my basement office. I don’t like having to drive to the library and Five Rivers each day and then hold going to the bathroom 🚽 until I get home because everything is closed.

Tonight will have a chance of showers before 2am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 2am and 3am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 3am. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 43 degrees at 12am. 16 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 1st. Southeast wind 3 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 27 degrees. The record low of 2 occurred back in 1967.

Tonight will have a Waining Crescent 🌘 Moon with 16% illuminated. The Pink 🌸 Moon is on Friday, April 3. The darkest hour is at 1:04 am, followed by dawn at 6:32 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:00 am in the east (90°) and last for 2 minutes and 54 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 45 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:38 am with sun in the east (96°). Tonight will have 11 hours and 50 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 2pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds. Cloudy 🌦, with a high of 72 degrees at 4pm. 26 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 23rd. Maximum dew point of 55 at 3pm. South wind 11 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 55 degrees. The record high of 78 was set in 2012. 7 inches of snow fell back in 1944.❄

I thought about heading out of town for the weekend ⛺ but I don’t know. I have a lot of things to do around home and I can finish up getting my gear ready for camping season. So much is still up in the air and I don’t want to risk getting sick 😷 although the only real human exposure I could see on a road trip is gassing up ⛽ as the country I’m generally in is pretty remote.

In four weeks on April 16 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (285°) at 7:38 pm,🌄 which is 32 minutes later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 58 and 37 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 59 and 38 degrees. The record high of 91 degrees was set back in 2012.

Looking ahead, Flower Moon 🌕 is in 7 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 9 weeks remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸