Good morning! Happy Average High is 70 🐮! Happens earlier this time of year now that we’re using the earlier climate normals. But today certainly won’t hit seventy, it will be cold and damp. Next Monday is Pack Rat Day 🐀 . Cloudy, damp and 47 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a north-northwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. Rain is done but the clouds and dampness will stick around until the evening. The skies will clear around 5 pm.

A nice morning for the walk 🚶🏻 before the new routine kicks back in. 🚍 It’s going to be tough for a while with the reduced bus service, no express bus and the local route I normally would take runs earlier due to reduced service. But I’ll make it work, just have to set my alarm ⏰ clock earlier.

I am going to work downtown 🏢 just one day this week, but starting next week I’ll be downtown three days a week. 🚽 Landlord is working on my plumbing midweek so it would be distracting plus I want to get back to the office before most staff is there so I can clean up my desk and make sure my office computer 🖥 still runs and has time to make updates.

I need to order more of the Jackson Mask, 😷 and I am planning to reduce my Hotspot plan 📱 come next week. I don’t think it will be long before the library reopens for inside computer use and being in the office half the week means I won’t be needing nearly as much data. I’ll probably drop it entirely come the end of June.

Today will have a slight chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 60 degrees at 4pm. 10 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 17th. Northwest wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 58 degrees. The record high of 92 was set in 1970. 5 inches of snow fell back in 1945.❄

While working from home 🏡 if I have downtime, I need to get my dress shirt and pants ironed. 👔 I also need to do some cleaning again in preparation for the landlord’s arrival and because I don’t like for things to be too dirty all of the time. 🚿

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 65.1° from the due south horizon (-5.7° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:26 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (289°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (295°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:06 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 11 seconds with dusk around 8:37 pm, which is one minute and 5 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:17 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 54 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 27 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 14 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 40 degrees at 4am. Seven degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 24th. West wind around 8 mph. In 2020, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 38 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 2010.

I’ve also been looking at Bluetooth speakers 🔊 to replace the one I bought five years ago that isn’t charging well. I like listening to tunes and podcasts up at camp and my phone isn’t loud enough with the background noise in the woods and sometimes I like to listen to music 🎶loud which kind of wrecks the drivers.

A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, a chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 69. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 44 at 7pm. Sunday, a chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 69. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 46 at 7pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 71 degrees.

I was on the fence but I’m thinking this weekend of heading up to the Adirondacks, ⛰ starting on Thursday before work, and then working Thursday, Friday and Monday up in Speculator. A lot depends on the weather. I was thinking about Madison County but I’m not that big into campground camping, as I like to be able listen to music and shoot guns, etc. 🎵

As previously noted, next Monday is Pack Rat Day 🐀 when the sun will be setting at 8:13 pm with dusk at 8:45 pm. On that day in 2020, we had mostly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 74 and 54 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 72 degrees. We hit a record high of 92 back in 2017.