Good morning! Happy Saturday. It’s the weekend! Six weeks to Average High is 80 🏖. I bet we will hit 80 at least once it twice before then, we often do despite the fairly cool spring this year. Cloudy and 51 degrees at the Five Rivers Environmental Education Center. ☔ There is a south-southeast breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. The skies will clear around 10 pm.

Today will be scattered showers. Cloudy 🌦, with a high of 55 degrees at 2pm. 14 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 7th. Southwest wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 57 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 1936. There was a dusting of snow in 1977.❄

Decided to walk out to Five Rivers this morning and observe the birds. 🐦 Not a lot of wildlife out an about but so far I’ve seen a bright red male cardinal, a crackle and a shit ton of boring robins and red wing black birds. That said, nothing beats the coolness of that robin harassing that great big barred owl 🦉 last night at the Town Park. I must have watched that action for 15 minutes last night.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 64.6° from the due south horizon (-6.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.9 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 6 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 50 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 23 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 18 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of showers before 11pm. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 40 degrees at 6am. Six degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 24th. West wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2020, we had light rain in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 33 degrees. The record low of 27 occurred back in 1956.

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 2020, we had hot and humid conitiins with an afternoon thunderstorm and temperatures between 85 and 71 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 77 degrees. We hit a record high of 97 back in 1925.