Good morning! Happy Average High is 50 🌸! That’s a real sign of spring. Three weeks to Average High is 60 🌼. Partly sunny and 33 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind.

I don’t think it was a bad idea 💡 to stay home this weekend. Last night was beautiful 🌃 but it got chilly around eleven, though I’m sure it wouldn’t have been bad by a campfire. 🔥 Hoping for better weather next week, and maybe taking a three day weekend. Heck, maybe I can even work one day from camp if it’s sunny and quiet out. ⛺

Today will rain likely, ☔ mainly after 5pm. Increasing clouds 🌞, with a high of 53 degrees at 2pm. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 3rd. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 8 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 55 degrees. The record high of 85 was set in 1945. 14.2 inches of snow fell back in 1932.❄

The plan for today is to walk 🚶 at Schodack Island State Park ⛲, return the broken MIFI adapter and pick up the work laptop, 💻 get the Reszin Adam’s newspaper clippings 📰 from John Wolcott, come home and work on my DEIS comments 📝 regarding the proposed Crossgates Development in the Pine Bush.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:01 pm with sun having an altitude of 50.6° from the due south horizon (-20.2° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 4.9 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:40 pm with the sun in the west (269°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (275°) starting at 7:15 pm and lasts for 2 minutes and 54 seconds with dusk around 7:45 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the west-southwest (256°) at an altitude of 40° from the horizon, 246,203 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:19 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 47 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 12 hours and 34 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain. 🌧 Low of 42 degrees at 4am. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 28th. Southeast wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. At least that should get the salt off the roads and help things from getting too dried out, but it certainly won’t help with the mud. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 44 degrees. The record low of 0 occurred back in 1923.

Tomorrow morning early on, I’ll run to the laundromat 👚 and go grocery shopping. 🍏 I am probably not going to see my parents this weekend but we’ll see. I’ll call them and see how they go they’re doing. 📞 I’ve been pretty isolated this week but you never know and they should stay away from senior citizens.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Average High is 60 🌼 when the sun will be setting at 7:41 pm with dusk at 8:10 pm. On that day in 2019, we had cloudy skies, rain showers and temperatures between 58 and 46 degrees. Albany hit a record high of 90 back in 1976.