Good morning! Happy Super Tuesday. Pay day for me it makes it super duper for me. 💵 Well at least I’ll have funds to pay the non stop bills. No chance to vote for the democratic nominee in New York until April though. ❎ Two weeks to St. Patrick’s Day 🍀. Partly cloudy and 38 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ There is a south-southwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Thursday around 2 am. ☃️

I was super groggy 😴 when I got up this morning but I made it to the bus on time ⌚. Not a hybrid bus 🚍 today. It is such a nice mild morning I thought about walking down to the express but I don’t like doing that in my suit and tie. 👔Bus ride to work is like every other day

Today will have showers, mainly after 2pm. 🌞 High of 59 degrees at 2pm. 20 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 16th. I like April weather. Maximum dew point of 44 at 5pm. 🏖️ Haven’t thought about the dew point in a while but I’m sure hot and sticky nights can’t be far away. South wind 5 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 39 degrees. The record high of 64 was set in 2002. 10.9 inches of snow fell back in 1994.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:08 pm with sun having an altitude of 40.8° from the due south horizon (-30° vs. 6/21). Now we’re starting to gain a sunlight faster in the morning than in the afternoon. A six foot person will cast a 7 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:10 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (256°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (262°) starting at 5:45 pm and lasts for 2 minutes and 56 seconds with dusk around 6:16 pm, which is one minute and 13 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the south-southeast (150°) at an altitude of 69° from the horizon, 239,073 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:49 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 53 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 11 hours and 21 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 51 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have showers, mainly before 11pm. 🌧 Low of 38 degrees at 6am. 16 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 16th. South wind 10 to 16 mph becoming west after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. In 2019, we had light snow in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 17 degrees. The record low of -20 occurred back in 1950.

I’ve been having a lot of trouble with the WordPress app lately 📝 so I haven’t been able to post as much lately. I am also hard at work with the blog revisions, getting the new upload and media engine tested and ready for launch. I also need to keep prepping both the historical images so I have several ready in the can to feature when the time comes.

I am dug around and found the $1,000 I needed to open up an IRA. 👴 I mostly just canceled other planned investments and dipped into my rainy day fund to make it happen. I just got paid so I should be okay. I am going to contribute to the IRA rather than the Roth IRA for the rest of the year to somewhat limit my tax liability. It sucks that I’ll have to pay taxes on withdrawals when I retire but when I have my off grid property it will be in a low tax state so I’m not that worried about it. 🐮

Back in 1972, an airplane crashes in suburban Albany, off Holmesdale Ave in Albany (near Colvin Avenue and Washington Ave). ✈ Regional Carrier, Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures. 📙 Also today in 1873, U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any “obscene, lewd, or lascivious” books through the mail. And in 1991, an amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.

A picture perfect early spring weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 38. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 49. Typical average high for the weekend is 41 degrees. I bet the ground will be muddy in the woods. My weekend is fairly free but I’m not totally sure what my plans are for the weekend. Money is tight so I might stick around town Saturday, hike at Schodack Island buy groceries at Aldis and then Sunday hike at Partridge Run.

🌹🌻🌼Only 16 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until St. Patrick’s Day 🍀 when the sun will be setting at 7:04 pm with dusk at 7:32 pm (Daylight Savings Time). On that day in 2019, we had mostly cloudy, snow showers and temperatures between 36 and 26 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 45 degrees. We hit a record high of 75 back in 1990.