Good evening! Mostly clear and 44 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a south breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Thursday around 3 am. ☃️

Mild evening 🌃, enjoyed my evening walk. 🚶 I ended up walking quite a few miles today, visiting a number of preserves and it was a nice day. Always try to spend a lot of time looking at the trees, observing birds 🐦 and wildlife, trying to go through life not too blind to the world around me. Spent a lot of time in the woods this weekend for sure. Even if I don’t travel far there is a lot of nature locally.

Driving 🚘 back through Berne got me thinking how much the hill towns are not unlike small rural towns everywhere. 🐮 Looking at Sauk County Wisconsin over the past week on the YouTube, and thinking back to my trips to West Virginia and Pennsylvania got me thinking how many nice small towns outside of New York I could ultimately settle down in and have a lot more freedom 🆓 than in New York State. Maybe the pasture isn’t greener everywhere but I see the plastic bag ban and these massive but low output solar farms as a sign of what’s to come and it’s not good. The same with the wilderness activists and anti frackers locking 🔒 all our land. To say nothing of more and more suburban track housing and apartment complexes going up everywhere. I miss the small town life I grew up in but I can’t see buying property in New York at this point. Once I don’t have family in New York, I’m towing everything I can out of the state for greener pastures.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 34 degrees at 5am. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 6th. Going to be cool at night but it’s only the second week of March. At least my heat is off. ♨ South wind 5 to 7 mph. In 2019, we had clear skies in the evening, which became clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 12 degrees. The record low of -14 occurred back in 1943.

Tonight will have the Worm Full 🀼/strong>󗐠Moon. At 10 PM, the moon was in the east-southeast (119°) at an altitude of 44° from the horizon, some 227,258 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀It’s a pretty big moon with a lot of moonlight. Didn’t need the brights on much driving home from the parents house. At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by August 28^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The darkest hour is at 12:07 am, followed by dawn at 6:51 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:20 am in the east (96°) and last for 2 minutes and 54 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 42 seconds earlier than today. 🌄 Still dark morning ahead. The golden hour ends at 7:57 am with sun in the east-southeast (102°). Tonight will have 12 hours and 22 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 68 degrees at 4pm. 27 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 10th. Outstanding. South wind 6 to 9 mph. But red flag 🚩 conditions so tomorrow is a day you shouldn’t be burning stuff you shouldn’t be 🔥 but my neighbors was having a nice fire out back. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 42 degrees. The record high of 81 was set in 2016. 6.9 inches of snow fell back in 1961.❄

In four weeks on April 5 the sun will be setting in the west (279°) at 7:26 pm,🌄 which is 32 minutes and 25 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly cloudy skies, rain showers and chilly temperatures between 42 and 25 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 54 and 33 degrees. Yes, you can still have winter in April. The record high of 82 degrees was set back in 1928.

Looking ahead, Ides of March ✝ is in 1 week, Pink Moon 🌕 is a month away, Palm Sunday 🌴 is in 4 weeks, Easter 🐰 is in 5 weeks, Mothers Day 👩‍ is in 9 weeks, Pack Rat Day 🐀 is in 10 weeks, Strawberry Moon 🌕 is in 13 weeks and Fathers Day 👨 is in 14 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 74 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸