Good morning! Happy Sunday. Next Sunday is Palm Sunday 🌴. I suspect most churches ⛪ won’t be giving away palms next week although maybe some churches will have drive through palm delivery I guess. Rain, a bit lighter than before and 42 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a southeast breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. The skies will clear Wednesday around 7 pm.

Down at the laundromat doing my wash this morning. 🚿 I figured it’s best to get it done as early as possible to avoid the crowds and so I’m not rushing around later. Today looks like a pretty much stay at home day, not a great day for doing anything up in the woods. I’m glad I didn’t decide to camp out this weekend, as the rain started early on Saturday and around day break this morning it was absolutely pouring. ⛺ Maybe next weekend although lately the forecast has been trending down hill.

Today will rain, mainly before 2pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. 🌦 High of 49 degrees at 2pm. One degree below normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 27th. Southeast wind 8 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 51 degrees. The record high of 85 was set in 1946. 5.6 inches of snow fell back in 1984.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:01 pm with sun having an altitude of 51° from the due south horizon (-19.8° 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 6:41 pm with the sun in the west (270°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (276°) starting at 7:16 pm and lasts for 2 minutes and 55 seconds with dusk around 7:46 pm, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the west-southwest (249°) at an altitude of 50° from the horizon, 243,536 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:20 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 47 degrees. There will be a southeast breeze at 9 mph. Today will have 12 hours and 36 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 41 degrees at 4am. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 25th. Southeast wind 5 to 8 mph becoming calm after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 42 degrees. The record low of 7 occurred back in 1970.

As previously noted, next Sunday is Palm Sunday 🌴 when the sun will be setting at 7:26 pm with dusk at 7:55 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 42 and 25 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 54 degrees. We hit a record high of 82 back in 1928.