Good evening! Heavy rain and 40 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a northwest breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 3 am. ☃️ Just rain so far here but I expect it will be snow by morning. It will melt fairly quickly but I think it’s fair to expect you might see some snow on the grass locally and more out in the hill towns.

A pretty good day. The morning was really beautiful and I was feeling great. 😊 Worked outside for a while. As the day progressed it clouded up but was nice to end the day in the woods well except for finding poison ivy on my hand ✋ and realizing that I think I forgot to take my doxycycline by evening due to the aches returning. 💊

I really got to treat my clothes with permethrin which is cheap and not hard to do if you buy it concentrated and mix it and make sure to let things dry before wearing. I’ll have to do most of my jeans and shirts before hiking and camping. 👚 👖 Lasts like six washes or a month or so. Safety of permethrin is pretty good as long as it’s use is for clothing or controlled in an agricultural setting. 💀I was studying the material safety sheets. Do keep it away from waterways for sure especially in agricultural quantities,which is why its a restricted pesticides for farm field applications but not for fly control on cows. 🐮

Tonight will rain before 11pm, then rain and snow likely between 11pm and 1am, then a chance of snow after 1am. 🌧 Low of 31 degrees at 5am. 14 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 31st. Chilly night ahead. Northwest wind 10 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies. It got down to 40 degrees. The record low of 27 occurred back in 1956.

Tonight will have a Waining Gibbous 🌖 Moon with 96% illuminated. At 10 PM, the moon was in the east-southeast (120°) at an altitude of 2° from the horizon, some 231,768 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by October 31^st. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Flower 🌷 Moon is on Saturday, May 23. The darkest hour is at 12:53 am, followed by dawn at 5:10 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:41 am in the east-northeast (66°) and last for 3 minutes and 11 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 12 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:21 am with sun in the east-northeast (72°). Tonight will have 9 hours and 35 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 15 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of snow showers before 9am, then a slight chance of rain and snow showers between 9am and noon, then scattered rain showers after noon. Partly sunny 🌧, with a high of 44 degrees at 3pm. 23 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 16th. Windy, with a west wind 21 to 26 mph, with gusts as high as 46 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. 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.❄

Just a friendly reminder that tomorrow is May 9th so with the wind it’s going to be cold. ❄ My heat is off but my windows are closed again. Memorial Day Weekend is just around the corner. I saw on Facebook that the town has been actively working on preparing the roads at Moose River Plains for opening in a few weeks.

I am still leaning towards the Coleman Screen house for camping 🎪 but they have two models I should make a decision this weekend or by Monday if I want it for Memorial Day Weekend even though I probably won’t camp that weekend due to the crowds but maybe take a long weekend the following week. The Coleman ones have a good review and it’s a well known brand. They have a conventional model and a newer quick pop up one which I have to study for durability and ease of putting up alone and relative size. Can’t be too big as I camp often in fairly small campsites. I like how the Coleman ones also lack floors so I won’t have to worry about spilled food, mud or beer. Make a mess, just shovel it out. Like a barnyard. 🐽 Additionally, It will be nice to have a shelter from the bugs in the day time.

Also been looking at getting a good pair of binoculars. 👓Between working out of my truck watching nature through the windshield plus spending a lot more time in the woods during the pandemic I’ve come to realize how much I like bird 🐦 watching. Plus I’ve joined a bunch of birder groups on Facebook and I’m getting a lot better at identifying birds just by thumbing through the pictures.

In four weeks on June 5 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (302°) at 8:29 pm,🌄 which is 26 minutes and 2 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had rain and temperatures between 83 and 55 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 75 and 53 degrees. The record high of 97 degrees was set back in 1925.

Looking ahead, 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ is in 4 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 2 weeks remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸