Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Five weeks to Pink Moon 🌕 . Mostly sunny and 37 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind.Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 2 am. ☃️ Nice morning, but I’m not moving real fast today.

This morning, I ended up just having some toast and coffee and doing an abbreviated walk this morning, around the Swift Wetland Preserve just down the door from where I live. I woke up in the middle of the night, and then I ended up listening to the radio for like an hour, then sleeping in for an additional hour. I shouldn’t put on the news or open up my phone, but after peeing, I was just so wide awake. It happens. I should get to bed earlier, but between sitting out back for a while under the starry skies then playing with my phone, watching videos, I found it hard to get back to sleep.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 67 degrees at 4pm. 20 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 6th. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had light snow in the morning, which became snow by afternoon. The high last year was 37 degrees. The record high of 80 was set in 1938. 2.7 inches of snow fell back in 2005.❄

Mid-day today I am going downtown to get the big shot. I am sure it will be fine but I’m a bit nervous as I am not a big fan of needles. But the way I look at it, I will have my second shot in by April 15th and by May will be good. I want to be fully vaccinated before I’m taking the bus to work downtown regularly again, and also not have to worry so much, even if it seems like mask wearing days will be around for a while. I am also just a bit nervous – I am eligible to get the shot and I should do it – but I feel like there are sicker and more elderly people that should go first, but the experts say you should get it as soon as your eligable as it prevent you and your community from getting sick.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:03 pm with sun having an altitude of 48.6° from the due south horizon (-22.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 5.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:34 pm with the sun in the west (266°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (273°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:11 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 54 seconds with dusk around 7:39 pm, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the southeast (128°) at an altitude of 63° from the horizon, 241,281 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:13 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 60 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 12 hours and 18 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 40 degrees at 6am. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 22nd. South wind 3 to 5 mph. In 2020, we had light snow in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 33 degrees. The record low of 0 occurred back in 1875.

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 52. Sunday, rain and snow likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 51. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Typical average high for the weekend is 49 degrees. I am continuing to watch the snow melt away up north, but I am thinking this won’t be the weekend with work and everything else. The following weekend is Easter and Good Friday, so I could easily make that into a three-day weekend. Trout season will be open then so maybe do some fishing on Sacandaga River. Or maybe I’ll go out to Cazenovia/Stoney Pond for a few days. Who knows, it could rain in two weekends or we get a foot of snow.

Looking ahead, there are 5 weeks until Pink Moon 🌕 when the sun will be setting at 7:51 pm with dusk at 8:21 pm. On that day in 2020, we had rain showers, cold, cloudy and temperatures between 46 and 37 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 63 degrees. We hit a record high of 91 back in 1962.