Good morning! Where did April go? It was quartined. Cold and tardy was the spring, ❄ I’m surprised how little green there is even in the city. May looks like it will be cold. 🌷Some years we hit 80 degrees in April, that was not to be this year. Next Thursday is Flower Moon 🌕. Cloudy with rain on the way around 52 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a south-southeast breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. I have my windows open, maybe I should close them soon. The skies will clear Saturday around 9 am.

Today will have showers likely, mainly after 11am. Cloudy 🌦, with a high of 60 degrees at 4pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 19th. Maximum dew point of 50 at 5pm. Breezy, with a southeast wind 10 to 15 mph increasing to 16 to 21 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 37 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 51 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 1903. There was a dusting of snow in 2008.❄

I have that meeting mid-day 💼 and then after I’m going to probably try out the Aldi’s in Colonie to get the food 🍲 I didn’t get at Walmart this past weekend. Aldi is small and easy for shopping which is good in the Coronavirus Era when you want to get in and out quickly and it’s hard to see anything under the bandana over the face. 😷

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 62.3° from the due south horizon (-8.5° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. No shadow from the sun today. Going to rain. ☔ The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:16 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (285°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (292°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:55 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 7 seconds with dusk around 8:25 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the south-southwest (210°) at an altitude of 65° from the horizon, 231,049 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:04 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 58 degrees. The dew point will be 49 degrees. Breezy, 22 mph breeze ⛅ from the south-southeast with gusts up to 34mph. Kind of a wet wild night. But I’ll stay home. Make the Coronavirus Uncles police 🚨 crazies happy 😊. Today will have 14 hours and 4 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 30 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain. The rain could be heavy at times. 🌧 Said so definite. Low of 51 degrees at 4am. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 27th. Maximum dew point of 52 at 3am. 🏖️ Breezy, with a south wind 15 to 20 mph decreasing to 9 to 14 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 42 degrees. The record low of 28 occurred back in 2008.

No further evidence of Lyme at the tick bite.🎯 I’m checking twice a day for a bulls eye and will get a picture and call 📞 insurance about telemedicine should it be necessary. Not been feeling that sick today which is good but drowsy with the cold and wet weather so I made a second pot of coffee ☕ up. Days really aren’t the same when your not getting up and taking the bus 🚍 to work.

The weekend is now looking quite nice. ☀ Saturday, a slight chance of showers before 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 68. Northwest wind 9 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Maximum dew point of 44 at 6am. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 68. Maximum dew point of 47 at 6pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 65 degrees. Should be nice but I expect the bugs to be bad and swarming around a lot if I decide to camp and hang out in the hammock.

I am once again thinking about getting out of town this weekend. ⛺ Not sure were I will go or if I will have on Friday as it will rain ☔ through the evening. Trails might be quite wet. I’m expecting the bugs to be fairly bad too. 🐜 I’ll have to think about it some more if I don’t get out of town the question 🙋 becomes when will the next time I can get away. Not sure if I will want to do that hike 🚶 I was planning as that trail will be soaked. I guess I could wear my muck boots but they aren’t great for long hikes. To be decided. I should decide relatively early as that may change what I buy at the store. 🏬

It looks like May is going to be pretty wet and cold. ☁ I don’t see us hitting eighty any time soon but I’m sure once the pattern changes it will get super hot. ♨ I wonder if all month I’ll be working from home or some normalcy will return. Not going to be fun working from home if it’s really hot and I don’t have air conditioning although I guess I can bring my work laptop and phone and work down by the river if I’m doing number crunching or something that doesn’t require much data. 📶

I have a bunch more videos and photos 📷 to upload but I don’t see that happening until Monday, as it kind of cold and wet to work out of my truck 💻 on the library Wi-Fi. With the new blog layout dash cam photo snaps work nicely when they’re uploaded. I think I’ve fixed the bug 🐛 in the uploading code yesterday but I’m sure I’ll discover future glitches.

As previously noted, next Thursday is Flower Moon 🌕 when the sun will be setting at 8:02 pm with dusk at 8:34 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 66 and 49 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 67 degrees. We hit a record high of 92 back in 1930.

Good evening! Cloudy and 54 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Breezy, ️16 mph breeze from the south-southeast 🌬 . The skies will clear Saturday around 2 pm.

No real rain yet ☔, I went for my evening walk earlier. I also went to Five Rivers for a walk and to update the blog towards the end of the day. Nice weather to start out the day but it kind of slipped downhill as the day progressed. Had a brief rain shower before I went for my evening walk. 🚶

Tonight will have isolated sprinkles before midnight, then a chance of showers, mainly after 3am. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 46 degrees at 6am. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 11th. Breezy, with a south wind 16 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 38 degrees. The record low of 25 occurred back in 1874.

Tonight will have a First Quarter 🌓 Moon with 43% illuminated. At 10 PM, the moon was in the west (260°) at an altitude of 45° from the horizon, some 233,363 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 23^rd. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Flower 🌷 Moon is on Thursday, May 7. The darkest hour is at 12:53 am, followed by dawn at 5:22 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:53 am in the east-northeast (69°) and last for 3 minutes and 6 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 24 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:32 am with sun in the east-northeast (76°). On sunny ☀ it’s bright out super early. Tonight will have 9 hours and 56 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 29 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will rain likely, mainly after noon. Cloudy 🌧, with a high of 61 degrees at 4pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 22nd. Maximum dew point of 50 at 4pm. Breezy, with a southeast wind 18 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. Tomorrow night into Friday is when the soaker will occur. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 51 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 1903. There was a dusting of snow in 2008.❄

Did some more research and I’m leaning towards the Coleman screened room for camping. 🎪 The 10×10′ size as that’s plenty of room for setting up my camp tables and having a chair in there away from the bugs with space to spare. I don’t want something too big as the campsites I’m often in are small. I’ll try to decide by the weekend there is a few more models I’m looking at. I doubt I’ll use it but on long weekend trips during black fly season and my summer vacation. It will be so nice to be able to sit outside of the truck cap when it’s super buggy out.

So far no bulls eye around the tick bite 🎯so I’m hopeful that I don’t have Lyme Disease although it does feel a bit that way in my arm and the tick was in there for a while. Once I do see the rash I’ll snap a picture and figure out the telemedicine benefit with my job. 📞 I see CVS is heavily advertising their drive through service so that would be easy. I’m not super concerned as I’m very familiar with doxycycline 💊 but I am ticked about getting Lyme so quickly again.

I’m looking at the forecast and I don’t see this weekend camping trip ⛺ happening. It’s just going to rain too late into Friday and everything will be soaking wet come Saturday. Relatively mild but still cold. I’d like to see things green up some more then I might go out to Schoharie County for the weekend or maybe even a long weekend. I am still thinking with all the campgrounds and other areas closed the places I like to camp will be packed so I should plan a psuedo Memorial Day Weekend the week before or after. Just take the Friday or Monday off work to celebrate it. I have a lot of time as I haven’t taken any time off since I’ve been working from home the past seven weeks now (wow, yeap). 🍀

In four weeks on May 27 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (301°) at 8:22 pm,🌄 which is 29 minutes and 3 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 81 and 55 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 73 and 51 degrees. The record high of 94 degrees was set back in 1914.

Looking ahead, Latest Sunset 🌆 is in 8 weeks and Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 38 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 23 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸

Good evening! Light rain and 42 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a north breeze at 11 mph. 🍃. Been a lot of clouds and drizzle but I’m not sure if it’s enough to break the rain deficit we’ve been having lately.

Today was a pretty quiet day working from home. 💻 Honestly not a lot going on but I ran some reports on the work computer and there was no Monday meeting today. I spent too much time on my bed reading 📖 random articles about Coronavirus and what people think might happen in various what if scenarios. I think it’s good states are experimenting and that will hopefully give us a better idea 💡 on how soon life can return to some kind of normalcy.

I went out for my evening 🚶 in the rain. It was modestly wet but not that bad. I just needed to stretch my legs and my exercise bike has a broken foot pedal so I’ve not been able to ride that. 🚲 I should figure out if I can somehow fix the stripped threads. Tomorrow though I should be able spend most of the day outside and maybe do some hiking for a while at Five Rivers after work – or maybe an evening hike up Bennett Hill.

Continuing to work on figuring out what tent 🎪 would be best for using over my picnic table for camping during black fly season. That said with so many things closed that weekend I might be better to plan a three day trip either the weekend before or after to avoid crowding. I’m sure with campgrounds closed through June 1st more will pile into the back country. But I haven’t taken any time off from work in weeks so I think I certainly could take a long weekend or two during May, remembering a lot of “developed” camping areas for camping in Central NY are closed. Assorted back country sites aren’t but they’re fewer in Central NY. ⛺ Honestly what looked quite nice for the first weekend of May is starting to slide down hill and

Tonight will have showers likely, mainly before midnight. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 35 degrees at 5am. Seven degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 10th. North wind 7 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2019, we had clear skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 40 degrees. The record low of 25 occurred back in 1947.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon with 22% illuminated. At 8 PM, the moon was in the west (260°) at an altitude of 47° from the horizon, some 239,308 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 26th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Flower 🌷 Moon is on Thursday, May 7. The darkest hour is at 12:54 am, followed by dawn at 5:25 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:56 am in the east-northeast (70°) and last for 3 minutes and 5 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 27 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:34 am with sun in the east-northeast (77°). Tonight will have 10 hours and one minute of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 33 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 61 degrees at 4pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 22nd. North wind around 6 mph. Maybe a few degrees below normal but at least sunny and not cold. A year ago, we had sunny skies in the morning with sunny skies in the afternoon. The high last year was 51 degrees. The record high of 92 was set in 1990. There was a dusting of snow in 1966.❄

Definitely want to spend as much time as possible outside tomorrow whether sitting out back or down at Five Rivers working. ☀ Depending on how busy I am, I could go down to the Hudson River with a fishing pole and my work laptop and work there. Watch the big boats go up the river. 🚢 Probably nice and green down there too and there’s that preserve to explore down that way.

In four weeks on May 25 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (300°) at 8:20 pm,🌄 which is 29 minutes and 31 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly sunny skies with patches of fog in the morning and temperatures between 73 and 46 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 72 and 50 degrees. The record high of 94 degrees was set back in 1981.

Looking ahead, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 1 week, Flower Moon 🌕 is in 3 weeks, Memorial Day 🇺🇸 is in 4 weeks, June 🍹 is in 5 weeks and Average High is 80 🏖 is in 8 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 25 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸