Good morning! Happy Thursday. ☺

We are grooving our ways through the March, with April scheduled to start on Saturday but I’ll believe it when I see it. But I like getting out at five and taking the express home.

Partly sunny and 25 degrees for the morning walk on this Thursday in Delmar. 🌄Breezy, ️16 mph breeze from the northwest 🌬 . The current wind chill is 12. Honestly I don’t think it’s that cold out but maybe in the city with all those big buildings the wind is whipping around. Things will start to thaw out at around 11 am. 🌡️

Cold day ahead but warm enough to not need the heat, ♨️ as it will be above freezing and I’ll be at work all day.

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 41 degrees at 5pm. 10 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 5th. Northwest wind around 16 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 44 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 1986. 4 inches of snow fell back in 1911.❄

Doesn’t seem like it’s going to be a particularly warm day today 🌬️ but I figure I’ll be in the office 🏢 most of the day and the sun shining on my desk is always nice. Been a relatively quiet week but know one of these days I’ll have a bunch of projects hitting my desk.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:01 pm with sun having an altitude of 51.1° from the due south horizon (-19.7° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 4.8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:42 pm with the sun in the west (270°). 📸

The sunset is in the west (276°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:19 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 55 seconds with dusk around 7:47 pm, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the southeast (144°) at an altitude of 69° from the horizon, 252,079 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:21 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 35 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 10 mph. Tomorrow will have 12 hours and 43 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 53 seconds over today.

Yesterday like usual I walked down to the park 🚶 and got my 7.5 miles in for the day. Cooked up a big pan of rice, beans and lentils in the morning which I had with broiled salmon 🐠 and veggies which was pretty good. Got home, had some cherries 🍒 and went to bed 🛏. Woke up during the night and listened to a while to a podcast on the Central Limits Therom.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 23 degrees at 2am. Eight degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 7th. Northwest wind 5 to 8 mph becoming calm in the evening. In 2022, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 39 degrees. The record low of 12 occurred back in 1923.

Still wet for April Fools Day. 😕 Saturday, rain before 2pm, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 2pm. High near 68. Breezy, with a south wind 16 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. Maximum dew point of 53 at 11am. Sunday, sunny, with a high near 44. Breezy. Typical average high for the weekend is 52 degrees.

After calling around I found a doctor 🧑‍⚕️ that was taking new patients for my physical but not until the end of May. But I didn’t want to have to go into the city and this place is within walking distance from home which is good. It just seems wrong to drive to a doctor’s visit, kind of like smoking a cigarette the doctor gave you. 🚬 Gives me more time to get in shape and improve my health 🩺 and I’m not in that much of a rush.

Also made the appointment for my truck to be serviced on April 10th. 🔧 I wanted to have that done before I’m doing a lot more driving as I’m overdue for some fluid changes and with inflation trying to maximize use of my truck. 🛻

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Arbor Day 🌳 when the sun will be setting at 7:52 pm with dusk at 8:20 pm. On that day in 2022, we had mostly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 51 and 39 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 65 degrees. We hit a record high of 91 back in 1962.