Good morning! Happy Inauguration Day 👴 ! Unless of course you supported the other guy. But it’s Biden this Time, and if you don’t like that just wait 4 to 8 years. Maybe he’ll legalize pot, so we can be one toke over the line legally. 🚬 Four weeks to 5:30 PM Sunset 🌇 . Snow flurries and 25 degrees in Delmar, NY. ❄ Calm wind. There is a fresh dusting of snow on the ground. ☃ Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 2 pm as it’s going to be cold and breezy especially by the afternoon. 🌡️

With the sun ☀ breaking through the clouds and snow flurries and not super cold it’s hard to complain about the morning walk 🚶🏻. I got milk 🥛 yesterday and I had a good breakfast of eggs 🍳 with ham and peppers. 🚙 Traffic is very light today, I wonder if even more people are working from home today to avoid protest delays. Air kind of has the taste of barnyard as I walk past the Sunnyside Farm. 🐄

Yesterday wasn’t too bad day, I ended up working down at the library 📚 for a good part of the day because it wasn’t that cold and there was enough sun for the solar. 💻 I finally got all the system updates installed on M$ Winders 10, and got my request form in for the VPN. 📡📶 That should make people happy, and it will mean fewer trips on the bus 🚌 or asking colleagues to get files off the server. 🗄It took forever to load those updates. Linux is so much faster at upgrading, although granted it can be a pain too if you have to upgrade through multiple versions that break the C library requiring reboots to keep programs from acting really odd when symbol tables don’t match up. 🔡 I’m sure that is what some of those delays were, but it also seems like Windows updates are particularly slow. 🐢 You know, I prefer to Linux. 🐧 But I should have a secure, reliable Winders box when I need that for work. ⏹ I also watched the Gubernators’ State of Budget Address, 🎙 worked on some 3D maps for the blog 🗺 and a few tweaks to the campsite map that I made up.🏕 Did my evening walk 🚶🏻

Today will have a chance of snow showers, mainly before noon. Partly sunny 🌦, with a high of 31 degrees at 12pm. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical day around January 23rd. Light southwest wind becoming northwest 12 to 17 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with sunny skies in the afternoon. The high last year was 22 degrees. The record high of 53 was set in 2006. 10.4 inches of snow fell back in 2019.❄

I haven’t decided if I will listen 👂🏻 to the new president’s speech today, although I listened to the BBC and Morning Edition 📻 for a while so I have an idea of what the political class is talking about today. Honestly, I think following politics too closely is unhealthy for your mental health. 🤪 I’d rather operate on a need to know basis and catch the recap on NPR.org or the hourly news bulletin on the radio. Session is at the same time so I might be too busy.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:07 pm with sun having an altitude of 27.3° from the due south horizon (-43.5° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 11.6 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:11 pm with the sun in the southwest (236°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (243°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:54 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 16 seconds with dusk around 5:24 pm, which is one minute and 14 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the south-southeast (166°) at an altitude of 55° from the horizon, 252,091 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:59 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 26 degrees. The wind chill around sunset will be 13. ☃️ Breezy, 17 mph breeze ⛅ from the west-northwest with gusts up to 30mph. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 36 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 58 seconds over today.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 12 degrees at 12am. Two degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around 8 at 8pm; Northwest wind 6 to 11 mph becoming light and variable. Honestly, not that bad all things considered. In 2020, we had clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 7 degrees. The record low of -18 occurred back in 1994.

Cool this weekend with temperatures running 9 degrees below normal but otherwise sunny. 😃 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 22. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 22. Typical average high for the weekend is 31 degrees. It seems like some of the winter weather, which so far has been retarded, it going to started to push into the area. Cool but not that unusually cold for January. I certainly remember much cold January days and certainly February might be colder. But let’s hope not, I don’t like paying a shit ton for heat, ♨ especially while working from home.

🌹🌻🌼Only 59 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼 That’s one less then sixty. One day closer. Countdown in process. It seems like 4 years of the Trumpster came and went in the blink of the eye, 👁 so maybe it means that summer and the black flies will be with us, at least after all the mud, muck and slop everywhere. I can already smell pungent Madison County 🐮 and doing some good ol’ trout fishing 🎣 come April 1st. Which is a Thursday this year.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Clean Your Computer Day 🧹 when the sun will be setting at 5:21 pm with dusk at 5:50 pm. On that day in 2020, we had snow showers, cloudy, mild and temperatures between 41 and 32 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 33 degrees. We hit a record high of 53 back in 1955.

Good morning! Happy Saturday on this first weekend of the New Year! Twenty Twenty One. 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣1️⃣ Tomorrow is week 1️⃣, officially. Hopefully a time of change, we will have a new president in 20. 🕴 Or well, maybe a throw back from the way-back machine. 👴 Normalcy this year with the vaccine? Adults in the White House? No more midnight crazy tweeting? I am glad I deleted my Twitter and Facebook accounts, and created new private ones for browsing only. Honest. No more inappropriate comments except my own on the blog. It feels good. Next Saturday is Static Electric Shock Day 🧼. Be careful when you are referenced to ground this time of year. ⚡ That dry air, walking over carpet can make some good shocks and make your hair look wild. 🤪 Not that you’d know with the pandemic and working from home. Rain and 33 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a south breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. There is two inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 7 pm. ☃️

While it looks like it was mostly snow up north, 🌨 I am thinking I am glad to be back home as it would have been kind of a cold and wet morning, and I enjoyed sleeping in my bed at home. The tent was fine but the ground was hard sleeping on a sheet of ice, below the ground tarp and layers of sleeping pads of course. But with the ice and snow, I’d probably be stuck up north, and I’m not sure how early it would clear out. Plus I enjoyed hiking back to Stewart Creek 🚶 yesterday, although that drone 🚁 was a bit odd to see fly over head when your in the wilderness. But I tell you, drone footage sure is cool. 📽 That said, I had fun on Campsite 7 on East Branch and I’m thinking I might do another winter camping trip, hopefully for multiple nights, should the weather cooperate later in the winter. The trick is to bring a shovel, park at Cod Pond, then dig out enough space on the driveway before carefully backing in. 🅿

Today will rain and sleet likely before 10am, then a chance of rain between 10am and 3pm. 🌧 Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny 🌦, with a high of 41 degrees at 1pm. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 7th. Breezy, with a south wind 7 to 12 mph becoming west 17 to 22 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 37 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Little or no sleet accumulation expected. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 45 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1890. 7.1 inches of snow fell back in 2014.❄

Today I am planning on going out to the folks house later. 👪 We are doing a socially-distanced fondue, which I know seems like a stretch but I guess it involves masks, 😷 a soup ladle 🥄 and sitting on opposite sides of the room. ↕ Or something like that. It’s not like any of us go out anymore anywhere, with everything shutting down. 🧀 And who knows, time is tight and limited. 👵 Tomorrow with the snow coming, I’ll stay home, well except maybe for the evening walk.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:00 pm with sun having an altitude of 24.5° from the due south horizon (-46.3° vs. 6/21). A long ways until summer but right now the transit is perfectly at noon. A six foot person will cast a 13.2 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:49 pm with the sun in the southwest (231°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (239°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:34 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 24 seconds with dusk around 5:05 pm, which is 53 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:41 pm. At sunset, look for partly sunny skies 🌃 and temperatures around 36 degrees. The wind chill around sunset will be 25. ☃️ Breezy, 21 mph breeze ⛅ from the northwest with gusts up to 36mph. Today will have 9 hours and 8 minutes of daytime, an increase of 51 seconds over yesterday. It won’t be long before we gain a minute each day — lots in the evening, and even

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 23 degrees at 4am. Seven degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 8th. Maximum wind chill around 20 at 6am; Northwest wind 6 to 11 mph becoming light after midnight. In 2020, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 39 degrees. The record low of -14 occurred back in 1970.

As previously noted, next Saturday is Static Electric Shock Day 🧼 when the sun will be setting at 4:40 pm with dusk at 5:12 pm. On that day in 2020, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 30 and 13 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 30 degrees. We hit a record high of 62 back in 2008.