Good morning! Today is Martin Luther King Jr Day. ♥ The holiday formerly known as Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, it was changed to honor M.L. King after Ronnie Reagan decided he needed to win more black votes, and the consternation of some states, most notably Arizona which had rather racist representatives and didn’t want to honor an insurrectionist. Today also is Winnie the Pooh Day 🍯 ! The day we mark the birthday of A. A. Milne, the man who created the beloved bear who had a thing for honey. Nowadays, bears are mostly interested in rummaging through rednecks’ burn barrels in Tioga County, PA to chew on half burnt moldy ham sandwiches and turkey carcasses flavored with burnt plastic. 🔥 Yum. Next Monday is 5 PM Sunset 🌇 . Yes, the days have grown noticeably longer then they were a few weeks ago. 🌞 I’ve noticed it in the evening, although it’s not a pronounced as I’m not waiting downtown to catch the bus home at 5 PM. 🚏 Cloudy, some red sky to the south, above one degree of freezing at 33 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Just imagine how much nicer it would be if we used Celsius? Be a half degree a I recon. I’ll take some honey. There is a southwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. There is a dusting of snow on the ground. ☃ Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 6 pm. ☃️

M. L. King Day will have a chance of snow showers before 2pm, then a slight chance of rain and snow showers between 2pm and 4pm, then a slight chance of snow showers after 4pm. I’d call that pretty cloudy 🌦, with a high of 38 degrees at 2pm. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 26th. Southwest wind 6 to 13 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning, which became snow by afternoon. The high last year was 30 degrees. The record high of 59 was set in 1973. 7.9 inches of snow fell back in 1891.❄

My foot is feeling better ever since I got the athlete’s foot cream on it, 👣 and let it soaked. Amazing how fast as a bad athlete’s foot infection can go away when you kill off the fungus. I’ve been trying to make sure to change my socks more regularly, 🧦 and hopefully it won’t become a problem. I did get out for my evening walk, which was pleasant 🚶 and not too cold. Forgot my muzzle, I mean to the non-III’ers, my mask but that was fine I didn’t see anyone on the street. 😷 I’ve not decided on whether or not I’ll go for a walk this morning, but I could go out to Five Rivers as it’s  a work holiday. 🐦 Not real nice day but who doesn’t like a good walk? Maybe I could do Van Dyke Preserve then walk out along the farms on Meads Road out to Five Rivers like I did last weekend. Or maybe that’s a crazy an overly ambitious idea, and I shouldn’t see if I could injure my foot first.

Breakfast this day was scrambled eggs with chopped peppers and ham. 🍳 It was a pretty good breakfast and now after having another cup or two of coffee ☕ I should clean up the kitchen next and get the bed made so I can get out. I don’t want to dilly around too much and waste all day, although the weather isn’t going to be great.☁ But it’s silly to delay all day. It will be dark out before you know it, despite the longer days.🌆 What’s the Gordon Lightfoot song I was listening to on the bus the other day?

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:07 pm with sun having an altitude of 26.9° from the due south horizon (-43.9° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 11.8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:08 pm with the sun in the southwest (235°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (243°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:51 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 16 seconds with dusk around 5:22 pm, which is one minute and 13 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the south-southwest (195°) at an altitude of 45° from the horizon, 249,828 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:57 pm. At sunset, look for snow showers 🌨 and temperatures around 37 degrees. Warm enough the roads will be fine. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 13 mph. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 32 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 52 seconds over today.

This afternoon going out to the folks house for Sunday dinner, 😋 and I also want to get the rest of the system updates installed on the Winders side of my laptop and get that Cisco program installed so they can telnet in and get all the VPN network drives mounted. 💻 At least I won’t have to be going downtown as much now when I need to file paperwork or get things off the server, or as mostly has been happening, asking friends to send me files that I need off the server. I really hate using Winders, but sometimes you just got to do it because it’s popular because of all the commercial advertising. If only the feds has stuck to their UNIX-mandate a few more years longer.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 22 degrees at 6am. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 4th. Maximum wind chill around 19 at 12am; Northwest wind 6 to 11 mph becoming light after midnight. In 2020, we had light snow. It got down to 17 degrees. The record low of -28 occurred back in 1971.

Cold next weekend with temperatures running 7 degrees below normal but otherwise sunny. 😃 Finally, some sun, but you’ll be using your heat. Welcome to the poor house with all your money going to the frackers! And probably 50 cents to the dirt-poor dairy farmer getting a royalty check for the 10 acres of cropland they forfeited for two decades. Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 26. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 22. Typical average high for the weekend is 31 degrees. While the temperature normally this time of year starts to moderate with the longer days and higher sun angle, it’s

🌹🌻🌼Only 61 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼Tomorrow marks 60 days, if you do the math. But I expect many cold, much colder then today, days before then.

As previously noted, next Monday is 5 PM Sunset 🌇 when the sun will be setting at 5:00 pm with dusk at 5:30 pm. On that day in 2020, we had rain and temperatures between 39 and 22 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 31 degrees. We hit a record high of 61 back in 1938.

Good morning! Happy Sunday! ⛪ Kind of a cloudy gray morning. ☁Four weeks to Valentines Day ❤️ . Clouds with a few snow showers and 35 degrees in Delmar, NY. ❄ There is a west-southwest breeze at 13 mph. 🍃. There is a inch of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 9 pm. ☃️

I slept horribly last night 🤪 mainly because I watch a movie about Napster, the RIAA and the craziness that was the 1990s, tying myself up in a knot with the sheets my mid-evening. 🛏 I remember why I don’t have Internet at home and why I don’t like politics or things technology that much anymore. 💻 Sure I do mapping and I have my computer that runs Linux, but I only use Open Source software, a very basic window manager — XFCE — and aren’t into all that commercial technology crap. 🌍My smartphone is super basic, I think the only paid app on it is US Topo Maps which I use sometimes for hiking and was all of $6 back in the day.📱

Then I woke up at 4 AM with a toe that was beat red and swollen, 👣 with a great deal of pain. I’m not that much of a girly man but it was — super painful and swollen. Wasn’t sure what the issue was but it probably was my fault for not putting on fresh shocks before bed. I thought maybe I had an overgrown toe nail — I tried to find my toe nail clippers half awake but gave up. Once I took off my socks, and applied some anti-bacterial foot-spray the pain went away. I think it was just athlete’s foot because I didn’t change my socks being home all day yesterday. I am going to shower 🚿 today, then soak my foot and apply athlete’s foot cream around it. I did find the clippers and clipped the nail back on the toe in case that was the issue but I don’t think it is.💇

Then somebody knocked on my door at 9:45 AM, 🚪 not sure who it was but I super groggy and not in the mood to answer the door. Often I won’t answer the door if I don’t know who it is, just because I’m a bit paranoid and I figure if it’s important, they can text me, leave me a note, or give me a call and do voicemail. 📞 I am really careful about screening my calls, lest it be a television reporter, a police officer, or anybody unpleasant to speak to like the 90% of all communications these days — SPAM artists.🗑 Yes, you can stop sending me emails about guest posts on the blog. They don’t exist here. This is my personal blog, so it’s 100% Andy Arthur for good or bad. I am thinking it was the neighbor asking about the power bill I stuck in their mailbox — I think it might have been for the previous tenant. 📬 I probably should have just written return to sender on it and stuck it in my mailbox, but the address was for the neighbor. Or stuck it in the paper trash. ♻

Today will have a slight chance of snow showers, mixing with rain after 10am, then gradually ending. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a high of 38 degrees at 1pm. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 26th. West wind 13 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had sunny skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 24 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1889. 10.9 inches of snow fell back in 1994.❄

I wanted to go out to Five Rivers but with me still somewhat sore toe, 👣 the clouds and wind I’m not sure if today is the day. ☁But I’ll bundle up later and do my evening walk. Maybe stay home and do some reading. 📚 I don’t think the toe issues is a big deal, but it was so awful for that hour or so last night when I was up in terrible pain. 🙄 I certainly pay enough for health insurance that if I need to slap down $25 get my toe checked, I’ll do it but I’m hopeful it good by later. I do need to order more books from the library – not difficult to do especially with the drive-through. Now that I have that hotspot mode on my phone, it’s particularly to browse for books online. 💻 That said, I do miss walking down to the library and look forward to getting the cost of the more expensive phone plan off my books once things re-open.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:06 pm with sun having an altitude of 26.7° from the due south horizon (-44.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 11.9 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:06 pm with the sun in the southwest (235°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (242°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:50 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 17 seconds with dusk around 5:20 pm, which is one minute and 12 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the south-southwest (206°) at an altitude of 38° from the horizon, 247,838 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:56 pm. At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 37 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 14 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 28 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 45 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of snow showers after 1am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 29 degrees at 6am. 15 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 24th. Southwest wind 7 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2020, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 10 degrees. The record low of -19 occurred back in 1957.

I’ve been trying to get Microsoft Windows running on my laptop 🖥 as I need it for work. I want to purge a lot of the spamwear on the machine and try to speed up windows.

Been doing some carpet cleaning with rubbing alcohol 🧹 which actually is quite effective after a suggestion I saw on the internet. But it does stink pand is probably toxic and very flammable. It does work great with a brush though, although I really do need to at some point get a carpet cleaning machine in here or something like that. I probably shouldn’t track so much mud in my apartment. That said, like everything in my inexpensive apartment, the carpet is starting to wear out.

🌹🌻🌼Only 62 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼 Cue Day by Day from the Godspell sound track. It’s going to get cold by the end of the month but at least we are creeping towards the days with higher sun angle. In four weeks, the average temperature will be 4 degrees above freezing and March won’t be that far around the corner. My meteorologist friend likes to point on Meteorological Spring happens on March 1st. I am just disappointed that I will have to wait until July 1st for the official climate normals to come out for the 1991-2020 period — I’m really fascinated to find out.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Valentines Day ❤️ when the sun will be setting at 5:26 pm with dusk at 5:55 pm. On that day in 2020, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 36 and 7 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 34 degrees. We hit a record high of 63 back in 1946.

Good morning! Happy Saturday. A rainy Martin Luther King Jr. Day  Weekend! It could be snow, but it’s not. Just a very cold, sloppy rain-mix. Six weeks to Snow Moon 🌕 . Rain with a lot of slush and dirty-four degrees in Delmar, NY. ❄ The kind of day farmers and outdoorsman everywhere dream of if they want to be up their waists slip-sliding in mud and shit. 💩 There is a northeast breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. There are 0.5 inches of sloppy ice and slush on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 2 am. ☃️ So you can be slip-sliding away and the roads can be caked with a shit-ton of salt.

I survived my trip down to the office, 🚌 and as far as I know I didn’t catch the CORONA or get assaulted by protestors downtown. ✊ Honestly, it was very quiet yesterday. I think I only saw one other person in office, no protestors and even the buses were empty. 🙌 I did wash my hands well after I got home. I do plan to stay socially distant from all the happenings in Albany this week, only interacting with it through my computer and phone for work purposes. I don’t want to touch any of that stuff with a 10 1/4 foot stick or whatever you call it.🍢 I’ll be quiet happy sitting at home, working on the computer from Delmar and looking out the window. 💻 Granted, remote work would be more fun from the Adirondacks but it’s cold up north and there isn’t a lot of places I can camp up there right now with cell service.

Today will snow before 10am, then rain and snow showers likely between 10am and 11am, then rain showers likely after 11am. 🌦 High of 38 degrees at 1pm. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 4th. Northeast wind 6 to 8 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, which became light snow by afternoon. The high last year was 42 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1995. 15.1 inches of snow fell back in 1945.❄

So yes, today will be a cold and wet day. ☔ I mean it could be snow, although in many ways I would prefer that but at least the rain will wash the salt off the roads until tonight when it’s reapplied. I am going to continue exploring some LANDSTAT data and some other things and do some reading today.🌍 Then maybe do some cleaning downstairs and hopefully by evening it will nice enough for the evening walk.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:06 pm with sun having an altitude of 26.5° from the due south horizon (-44.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 12 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:05 pm with the sun in the southwest (234°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (242°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:49 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 18 seconds with dusk around 5:19 pm, which is one minute and 11 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the southwest (215°) at an altitude of 29° from the horizon, 245,405 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:55 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 37 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 26 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 41 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of rain and snow showers before midnight, then a slight chance of snow showers between midnight and 1am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 31 degrees at 3am. 17 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 29th. West wind 11 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2020, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 10 degrees. The record low of -23 occurred back in 1971.

🌹🌻🌼Only 9 weeks remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼 I can remember last weekend when it was 10 weeks. Each week is one week closer to spring and the black flies, the mud and tangy smell of cow shit in small towns everywhere. And trout fishing. Add about two months two that date, and the black flies will be out in full force and it will be Memorial Day Weekend or something like that. The windows will be open and fresh air.

As previously noted, next Saturday is National Cheese Lovers Day 🧀 when the sun will be setting at 4:57 pm with dusk at 5:27 pm. On that day in 2020, we had mostly cloudy and temperatures between 37 and 11 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 31 degrees. It’s supposed to be warming up at that point a little but I expect below normal temperatures’ in Biden’s America, at least to start out his term. We hit a record high of 64 back in 1906. Wishful thinking.

Good morning! Yeah, it’s Friday! Long weekend ahead but it’s Martin Luther King Jr weekend in the bleak of winter and it’s going to rain during the pandemic so don’t get so excited. Two weeks to my 38th Birthday 🎉 . Getting old you might say. Probably not wiser, but I haven’t burned my hand with dripping plastic in a few years. Maybe because I live in the city for now, less chance for making black smoke and injuries with fire.

Partly cloudy and 30 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ A little bit more sun right now for my talk then lately, but hardly a banner morning. But wait there is more — going to cold around my birthday but probably with more sun. Calm wind. So it make it feel fairly mild. There is a dusting of snow on the ground. ☃ Things will start to thaw out at around 10 am. 🌡️

Honestly, right now a pretty nice morning for the walk 🚶🏻. Seeing the sun ☀ is refreshing not that is expected to last. But it is promising to return for late January and be cold ❄. I expect an absolutely frigid February like has been the norm but the strengthening sun angle means any extreme cold and snow 🌨 we get in late February won’t last.

Today will have patchy fog before 11am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 40 degrees at 2pm. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 4th. Calm wind becoming southeast 5 to 8 mph in the morning. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 47 degrees. The record high of 65 was set in 1995. 13.4 inches of snow fell back in 1983.❄

Morning walk now, 🚶and later it’s off to head downtown for paperwork and a meeting. I am a bit hesitant with the Corona 👾 and riding the bus, but I’ll mask up. 😷 🚌 I was surprised to see from that graph I posted last night that 1 in 20 Albany County residents so far has had COVID — it’s really been popping up a lot the past two months, although some has to do with testing. At least Albany County is still not in the yellow or orange zone. 🚦 I really can’t complain about the weather. At any rate it’s nice to get out of the apartment — the morning and evening walks are great but working from home seems so trapping at times, especially when it’s cold and I can’t be outside or in the wilderness. ❄ No more of this working and camping outside of Speculator at least until the springtime.

Yesterday I got to the store and bought the world’s biggest box of Bisquick and cereal. 🥣I try to buy in bulk to reduce the amount of trash because I don’t like going to the transfer station as it costs money and living in the city means fewer opportunities to burn things. 🔥 No more free paper recycling. ♻ I think buying such a big box of Bisquick last time, and eating so many Bisquick biscuits like five years ago was why I stayed away from it. 🥞 I guess there is also Bisquick pancakes and other things on the package I can make to use it up. I also fueled up Big Red ⛽ because my tank was low, and I wanted to have fuel in case shit gets real next week 💣 and I need to evacuate. I don’t expect next week to be crazy, but there are some on the left who are sure it’s going to be nuts. 👊 Well I have my truck, and I’m working from home and I know plenty of places to hide out if necessary. 🚗 That said, I expect Inauguration Day to be boring, and I’ll watch it from home or maybe down at the library. 🖥 Really do need to cut down my bandwidth a bit to make it through the month. Too much streaming video, even though I have a so-called unlimited plan.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:06 pm with sun having an altitude of 26.3° from the due south horizon (-44.5° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 12.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:04 pm with the sun in the southwest (234°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (242°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:48 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 18 seconds with dusk around 5:18 pm, which is one minute and 11 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the southwest (223°) at an altitude of 20° from the horizon, 242,654 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:54 pm. At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 38 degrees. There will be a southeast breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 25 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 39 seconds over yesterday.

I am watching the bandwidth I’ve been using with my phone 📱 over the past three weeks, and I think 🤔 I need to be careful about how much data I use. While I’m well below the 20 gb Hotspot limit I want to keep the unlimited mobile under the 60 gb for a month to avoid potentially triggering a teems of service review even if I think my usage is consistent, but I don’t have Wi-Fi at home and I use it for a lot of work video streaming and video meetings. 📹 But I really don’t need to watching hour long videos on my phone of manure drag lining as fascinating as that may be. 🐮 🚜 💩 I can always download those kind of videos at the library and watch them on my laptop.💻 I also don’t want to get to addicted to watching videos on my phone — one the pandemic is over or warmer weather comes back, I fully plan on going back to my cheaper phone plan without the hotspot or unlimited mobile data. I like walking down to the library or the park when I want to use the internet at night. Keeps me on a schedule, makes it so I’m not staying home all of the time.

Tonight will have a slight chance of rain and snow before 10pm, then rain. 🌧 Low of 36 degrees at 8pm. 22 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 11th. Southeast wind 8 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. In 2020, we had partly cloudy skies. It got down to 24 degrees. The record low of -16 occurred back in 1971.

Tomorrow will rain, mainly before 1pm. 🌧 High of 41 degrees at 12pm. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 7th. East wind 9 to 14 mph becoming light and variable. Winds could gust as high as 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 42 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1995. 15.1 inches of snow fell back in 1945.❄

Well I could have dreamed of getting up to the Adirondacks this weekend, 🏕 but I knew that was unlikely with the normally lousy weather that is the norm this time of year. It’s going to be kind of wet, but I downloaded several videos and I have books to read too. 📚 I really should do more reading. I am probably going to go out to the folks house on Monday, but I’ll see what it’s like. I would be nice to get out and some hiking — maybe Martin Luther King Day but it’s going to be cold.

Looking ahead to Sunday, isolated snow showers. 🌧 Mostly cloudy, with a high near 38. Breezy, with a west wind 9 to 14 mph increasing to 16 to 21 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 36 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Typical average high for the weekend is 30 degrees.

🌹🌻🌼Only 64 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼 Day by day spring is coming. Did you see my post about Rensselearville and trout season? It’s only like a few months away until April 1st, although truth be told, most of the good trout holes are located in places where I don’t have cell service which makes it bit hard to work on the laptop with a fishing pole in the opposite hand.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until my 38th Birthday 🎉 when the sun will be setting at 5:05 pm with dusk at 5:35 pm. Happy Birthday to Me. I am working from home so I won’t have to stay in the office or necessarily do anything special. On that day in 2020, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 35 and 19 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 31 degrees. We hit a record high of 54 back in 2002.

Good morning! Happy Thursday. No sun. ☁ No surprises on that front. Two weeks to the Wolf Moon 🐺🌕 . Cloudy and 31 degrees in Delmar, NY. ❄ Calm wind. There is a dusting of snow on the ground. ☃ Things will start to thaw out at around 9 am. 🌡️

It’s a very typical Upstate NY winter morning. 🌨 Cool and gray as I’m out on my morning walk, the air tastes like barnyard and diesel smoke there is a lot of dampness in the air. If it was more normal times, I would be catching the express bus 🚍 downtown and be almost in the office. 🏢

Today will have a chance of snow, mixing with rain after noon, then gradually ending. Cloudy 🌧, with a high of 38 degrees at 2pm. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 26th. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 45 degrees. The record high of 66 was set in 1932. 9 inches of snow fell back in 1999.❄

I think I will follow my usual Thursday plan – shop at lunchtime, 🛍 gas up the truck ⛽ and then go to library for afternoon work session. 📚 When I’m down there I’ll get some files I need, including some old LANDSTAT and declassified satellite photos from the 1960s and 1970s. 🛰 I think I could do some very interesting projects with them. I also would like to update my podcasts and maybe get some videos. Friday I’ll probably go down to the office to do paperwork. But first a shower then my morning walk on this kind of cloudy and depressing morning. At some point the sun will shine again.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:05 pm with sun having an altitude of 26.1° from the due south horizon (-44.7° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 12.2 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:03 pm with the sun in the southwest (234°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (241°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:47 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 18 seconds with dusk around 5:17 pm, which is one minute and 10 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the southwest (230°) at an altitude of 11° from the horizon, 239,728 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:53 pm. At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 37 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 9 hours and 23 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 37 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 28 degrees at 5am. 14 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 22nd. Light north wind. In 2020, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 29 degrees. The record low of -20 occurred back in 1957.

Not a particularly nice weekend on tap. 😞 Saturday, rain showers likely before 4pm, then rain and snow showers likely. Cloudy, with a high near 40. West wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. Sunday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 37. Typical average high for the weekend is 30 degrees.

I think it’s fair to say that any plans of the Adirondacks is toast, 🥑 not that I have ever had avocado toast, but the stable of emojis lacks a toaster. Save money by staying home I guess, although that’s not nice to my power bill, although I’ve come to realization that weather and the thermostat controlling the main gas heat downstairs has the biggest impact on the gas and electric bill. Don’t get me started on the “Save 10% on your electric bill with renewables crap,” which only is the supply part of electric bill, which really is all of about 25 cents because everything is delivery and the mandatory minimum fees.🔌 So many of those renewable schemes are scams, which are promoted as the planet burns. 🌎

🌹🌻🌼Only 65 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼It seems like it was only last Saturday that spring was 10 weeks away. I guess you subtract 5 from 70, you come up with sixty-five. Spring is coming, or so I tell myself.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Wolf Moon 🌕 when the sun will be setting at 5:03 pm with dusk at 5:33 pm. On that day in 2020, we had partly cloudy, snow showers and temperatures between 37 and 31 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 31 degrees. We hit a record high of 56 back in 1916.