Good morning! Happy Saturday. Finally the weekend! Three weeks to Average High is 50 🌸. Partly sunny and 30 degrees at the Five Rivers Environmental Education Center. There is a north-northwest breeze at 14 mph. 🍃. The current wind chill is 19. Nice morning but cold to start out the day with that wind. But I’m hoping for a warm up tomorrow that will last for a while. Things will start to thaw out at around 10 am. 🌡️

Last night I woke up with a cramp in my leg. 💪I was real painful then but it went away. But I ended up not getting a real early start but I made it Five Rivers by nine. 🐦Not a lot of wildlife out on this rather chilly morning.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 41 degrees at 3pm. Typical for today. North wind 11 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning, which became light snow by afternoon. The high last year was 26 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1974. 10.3 inches of snow fell back in 1967.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:07 pm with sun having an altitude of 42.4° from the due south horizon (-28.5° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 6.6 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:16 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (258°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (264°) starting at 5:50 pm and lasts for 2 minutes and 55 seconds with dusk around 6:21 pm, which is one minute and 12 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the east (93°) at an altitude of 30° from the horizon, 228,874 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:54 pm. At sunset, look for clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 39 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 11 mph. Today will have 11 hours and 33 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 53 seconds over yesterday.

Today’s agenda is pretty standard. 🚶 I’ll probably head home at noon 🕛 go to Schodack Island in the afternoon, visit Aldis and wash my truck. 🚿 Also want to start unpacking and organizing my camping gear. ⛺ I doubt I’ll get out camping next week but I want to be ready when the weather comes. Also want to drop off the recycling paper 📄 at the park and ride. 🅿 Soon I’ll need to take the cans and bottles to the transfer station. ♻ And maybe get rid of some other junk. Although a lot of it is scrap metal.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 21 degrees at 4am. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 3rd. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable in the evening. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 7 degrees. The record low of -2 occurred back in 1989.

With the forecast for this week and shutting off the heat at my apartment. ♨ Except for tonight the mercury is going to be well above freezing and with lots of sun to heat the building with radiation. ☀ It might be warm enough on Monday and Tuesday to open the windows for the day. Might be a bit chilly tomorrow morning but so be it.

Back in 1967, Bloody Sunday: a group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama. 👮 Things have changed a lot in America since then but too much remains the same.

🌹🌻🌼Only 12 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Average High is 50 🌸 when the sun will be setting at 7:17 pm with dusk at 7:45 pm (Daylight Savings Time). On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 55 and 33 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 50 degrees. We hit a record high of 85 back in 1945.