Good morning! Happy 8 PM Sunset 🌇! Two weeks to Flower Moon 🌕. Partly sunny and 57 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a west-northwest breeze at 11 mph. 🍃.

It is a rather beautiful morning, ☀ I got out and got some fresh air before getting down to work this morning. Its going to be much colder this week so I figure enjoy it before it gets nastier out. ☁

Today will start out partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 57 degrees at 9am. Clouds will push in by midday. Nine degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 13th. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 67 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 1944. There was a dusting of snow in 1986.❄

Today in the afternoon I’m going to head to the laundromat 👚 and get my clothes washed while I work out in my truck. They have Wi-Fi there and it should be a decent enough day to work in my truck.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 63.5° from the due south horizon (-7.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:20 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (287°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (293°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:00 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 8 seconds with dusk around 8:30 pm, which is one minute and 7 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the southeast (132°) at an altitude of 36° from the horizon, 226,292 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:09 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 53 degrees. Breezy, 16 mph breeze ⛅ from the northwest with gusts up to 26mph. Today will have 14 hours and 14 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 24 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming clear ☁, with a low of 34 degrees at 5am. 10 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 7th. Northwest wind 8 to 14 mph. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 52 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1974.

Bitterly cold weekend on tap for March, I mean May. ❄ Saturday, a chance of rain and snow. Snow in May in Albany. Not just the outlying areas. Partly sunny, with a high near 49. I checked, it was colder in 1977. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 51. Typical average high for the weekend is 67 degrees.

Needless to say I plan to stay in town this weekend ☀ but I might try to go somewhere close and do some hiking. 🚶 I want to figure out what kind of screen house I want to buy for camping as if I go north the following weekend I’m sure the bugs will be our full blast. Although I’m learning more towards Duck Pond in Schoharie County.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Flower Moon 🌕 when the sun will be setting at 8:14 pm with dusk at 8:46 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 73 and 46 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 70 degrees. We hit a record high of 94 back in 2017.