Good morning! Yeah, it’s Friday! Seems like just another day working from home on weekdays, especially when I’m staying in town this weekend. 🏡But maybe it will be nice this next weekend. Four weeks to 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️. Despite the cold and snow tomorrow, summer is coming. It’s May after all and mid May by next week.

All and all a nice morning today. Partly sunny and 49 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☀ There is a west-southwest breeze at 10 mph. 🍃.

Before work today I went for a very pleasant nearly two hour walk 🚶 around the rail trail starting at 7 AM. So quiet with everything closed down on buses only running their Saturday schedules. 🚍 Very little traffic early on although there were some joggers and a county DOT worker 👷 mowing the trail. Saw a Blue Jay, 🐦 got a nice picture. Home by nine for work.

Today will have a chance of rain, mainly after 3pm. Increasing clouds 🌞, with a high of 54 degrees at 2pm. 13 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 6th. West wind around 11 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 67 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 1936. There was a dusting of snow in 1977.❄

Going to be a bit cool today ☀ but I want to work outside as much as possible so I can enjoy the sunshine. I’ve started to get a good tan from last weekend and the past few days working outside but I have to be careful about not getting sun burnt with the doxycycline.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 64.6° from the due south horizon (-6.2° 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 7:24 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (288°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (295°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:04 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 11 seconds with dusk around 8:35 pm, which is one minute and 5 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:15 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 43 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 23 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 17 seconds over yesterday.

This afternoon I want to work at Five Rivers Environmental Education Center 🐸 because it will be nice enjoy the day and get some more walking in before the rain begins. ☔ I’m feeling really good now that the doxycycline has kicked in 💊 and won the battle so far against the Lyme.

Tonight will rain likely before 10pm, then rain and snow likely between 10pm and 11pm, then snow likely after 11pm. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 33 degrees at 4am. 12 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 5th. Northwest wind 7 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies. It got down to 40 degrees. The record low of 27 occurred back in 1956.

Tomorrow will have a chance of snow showers before 9am, then a chance of rain and snow showers between 9am and noon, then a chance of rain showers after noon. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 43 degrees at 1pm. 24 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 14th. Breezy, with a northwest wind 15 to 24 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 66 degrees. The record high of 93 was set in 1979. 1.6 inches of snow fell back in 1977.❄

Looking ahead to Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 53. West wind 14 to 16 mph. That’s going to be a bitterly cold Mother’s Day. 👩❤ Maybe it’s good there is no tulip 🌷 festival this year. Typical average high for the weekend is 67 degrees.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ when the sun will be setting at 8:29 pm with dusk at 9:04 pm. On that day in 2019, we had rain and temperatures between 83 and 55 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 75 degrees. We hit a record high of 97 back in 1925.