Good evening! Clouding up and 44 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south-southeast breeze at 11 mph. 🍃. You could actually see the stars ✨ for a while when I went for my evening walk after going to the library. 🚶 Temperatures will drop below freezing at Sunday around noontime. ☃️

I went down to the library to do some research for Save the Pine Bush. 📚 Quiet at the library because they’ve canceled all community events. Smelled a bit like ammonia from all the cleaning fluid as everything does this day. 😷 Every time you hear a cough you have to cringe a bit. But I think it’s kind of silly. Just got to live your life and if you die, so be it.

I also uploaded that graphic comparison of the routing of the Mid Crosstown Arterial that I find quite fascinating. 🚧 I don’t know about you but I’m very fascinated by dragging the slider back and forth and seeing the comparison. As I explained earlier it’s not difficult to do, once you get things geo referenced. The GIS software does all the hard work. I also have some Google Maps to show but I can’t seem to get my new and improved uploader to work properly with them. I got to play with that broken code more.

Tonight will rain, mainly after 2am. 🌧 Low of 42 degrees at 3am. 18 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 28th. Southeast wind 11 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 21 degrees. The record low of -6 occurred back in 1885.

Tonight will have a Last Quarter 🌗 Moon with 84% illuminated. The moon will rise at 10:42 pm. The Worm 🐛 Moon is on Friday, March 27. The darkest hour is at 1:06 am, followed by dawn at 6:45 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:13 am in the east (94°) and last for 2 minutes and 55 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 44 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:50 am with sun in the east (100°). Tonight will have 12 hours and 10 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will rain before 7am, then showers, mainly between 7am and 1pm. 🌦 High of 59 degrees at 2pm. 17 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 18th. Maximum dew point of 45 at 11am. 🏖️ Breezy, with a southeast wind 13 to 23 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 38 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. A year ago, we had light snow in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 44 degrees. The record high of 70 was set in 2012. 22 inches of snow fell back in 1993.❄

I think I’ll open up my windows tomorrow. 🔳 That’s a good thing because I left a gallon of milk 🐮 on the counter top when I went to work and I can still smell the racid milk despite dumping it out. I was very sad 😔 the milk went bad, it’s the first time I’ve done that in years – I didn’t catch it in the morning when I confirmed the stove was off.

In four weeks on April 9 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (281°) at 7:30 pm,🌄 which is 32 minutes and 13 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny, thunderstorm and temperatures between 65 and 41 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 55 and 35 degrees. The record high of 77 degrees was set back in 1991.

With all this talk about Coronavirus, I’m thinking about a weekend trip to Schoharie County or maybe Madison County with a case of Corona beer 🍻 to enjoy next to a campfire 🔥 for one night of self imposed quarantine. Exposure to natural bacteria and fresh air can be quite healthy. ⛺ Snow is gone outside of the Adirondacks although things might be muddy with the warm weather and rain expected tomorrow. Might be cold with the wind, 🍃 and while I’m not that concerned because everything is wet I don’t want a shit ton of sparks ✨ going everywhere because it’s cold and windy. Pine Bush literature drop I had planned for the weekend has been canceled due to older members concerns about going door to door 🚪 in a community that’s already has a known spread of Coronavirus.

I am thinking of getting a box of plastic bags 🛄 like the grocery stores 🏬 used to have before the plastic bag ban. You can get 1,000 plastic shopping bags for under $20 — they really are dirt cheap and it would be great to carry in case you run low on bags in the store or while camping if I don’t want my reusable bags to get dirty. And then they’re great for camp trash – gone in seconds. 🔥 Goes good with the foam plates I used to use a lot while camping. Fire is more fun and easier than washing. I’ll get the plastic bags by summer. I still have plenty used plastic bags from before the ban.

Looking ahead, Easter 🐰 is a month away and Flower Moon 🌕 is in 8 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 10 weeks remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸

Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Definitely a dark morning with the time change and the clouds. Next Tuesday is St. Patrick’s Day 🍀. Better watch out for the drunk drivers then, much more dangerous then the time change. It’s quite cloudy and 50 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Thursday around 3 am. ☃️

I woke up this morning a bit congested 👃 but after a few cups of coffee ☕I feel pretty good. I know all they ever tell you on the radio 📻 these days is if you feel the least bit sick to stay home. 😷 But if I did that I’d never make it to work as sinus congestion is pretty much the norm for me in the winter. I tell you can smell on the buses how much more aggressively they are cleaning them. I guess that forty million the governor wanted is getting put to good use.

One thing I can say, it’s nice waking up and having the windows open 🐦 and hearing the birds chirp in the morning and the fresh air. And the rumble of the passing cars and trucks. 🚛 I think this will be the last morning in a while for open windows, but I am sure we will have enough warm up in a few weeks. And certainly April weather will be upon us before you know it. That will really help with the sinuses.

Sat out back for a while last night, 🌃 which was nice but it was cloudy out, and it wasn’t that quiet because my neighbors had a big fire going. I probably should have gone over, introduced myself and joined in some fun. Too bad I don’t have any alcohol to think.

Today will have a chance of showers, mainly after noon. Cloudy 🌦, with a high of 62 degrees at 3pm. 20 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 23rd. Another real mild day! Spring is coming. Maximum dew point of 47 at 6pm. South wind 7 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 38 degrees. The record high of 72 was set in 1977. 5.7 inches of snow fell back in 1964.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:06 pm with sun having an altitude of 43.5° from the due south horizon (-27.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 6.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:19 pm with the sun in the west (259°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (266°) starting at 6:54 pm and lasts for 2 minutes and 54 seconds with dusk around 7:24 pm, which is one minute and 12 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 7:58 pm. At sunset, look for rain showers 🌧 and temperatures around 58 degrees. The dew point will be 47 degrees. There will be a south-southwest breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 11 hours and 41 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 55 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly before midnight. Cloudy during the early evening, then gradual clearing 🌧, with a low of 33 degrees at 6am. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 3rd. Southwest wind 9 to 15 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2019, we had light rain in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 34 degrees. The record low of -10 occurred back in 1939.

People ask if I was smart to put $1,000 in that IRA last week to avoid taxes but I look at it as I still have 15 plus years to retirement and closer to 20 before I can touch the IRA. 💵 Any blip in the market is only on paper and I had to contribute a full $1k to open the account. Next week I’ll return to contributing to the IRA as I did previously with the Roth IRA. There will be ups and downs in the market but when contribute every two weeks it smooths out gyrations of the markets. 📊

Today in 1969, in Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to recant. While he may not have been a CIA agent he certainly had the tacit support of the government.

A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 45. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 44. Typical average high for the weekend is 43 degrees. Saturday I’m doing some door 🚪 knocking for Save the Pine Bush. Still not sure if I’m going to Schoharie this weekend. Probably not though.

🌹🌻🌼Only 9 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼 Next weekend is the last weekend before calendar spring.

As previously noted, next Tuesday is St. Patrick’s Day 🍀 when the sun will be setting at 7:04 pm with dusk at 7:32 pm. On that day in 2019, we had mostly cloudy, snow showers and temperatures between 36 and 26 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 45 degrees. We hit a record high of 75 back in 1990.

Good evening! Cloudy with a few snow flurries around and 36 degrees in Delmar,. NY. ❄ There is a north breeze at 14 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 1 am. ☃️

Stayed home, worked on some minor issues on the blog and did some reading 📖. Finished off the last container of leftovers I have in the freezer. 🍲 Definitely have to go shopping tomorrow. Going to set my clocks ahead tonight so I can practice getting up earlier this weekend as that first Monday after the time change is never fun. 😴

Tonight will be scattered rain and snow showers before midnight, then scattered snow showers between midnight and 4am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 27 degrees at 6am. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 19th. North wind 10 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. In 2019, we had light snow in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 4 degrees. The record low of -6 occurred back in 1950.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous 🌖 Moon with 91% illuminated. At 10 PM, the moon was in the south (181°) at an altitude of 68° from the horizon, some 230,565 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 August 28^th. Not too far away but not a super moon but you better bring a GPS for safety. Buckle up even in the rear seat for safety! 💺 The Worm 🐛 Moon is on Monday, March 9. The darkest hour is at 12:08 am, followed by dawn at 5:55 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:23 am in the east (97°) and last for 2 minutes and 55 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 40 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 Spring is coming, alas the due east sunrise. The golden hour ends at 7:01 am with sun in the east-southeast (103°). Tonight will have 12 hours and 28 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny 🌞, with a high of 41 degrees at 2pm. Typical for Tomorrow. North wind 11 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Should be a nice day but blustery. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 26 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1974. 10.3 inches of snow fell back in 1967.❄

Tomorrow morning plan to get up bright and early ☀ and walk out to Five Rivers. Hopefully it won’t be too cold with the wind 🍃. I can always bundle up and the sun will help with the higher angle.

In four weeks on April 3 the sun will be setting in the west (278°) at 7:24 pm (Daylight Savings Time),🌄 which is one hour, 32 minutes and 33 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 62 and 32 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 53 and 33 degrees. The record high of 79 degrees was set back in 1981.

Still struggling to get my blog to update properly. 📝 Seems like something is wrong with the app. I will have to explore it more to figure out what is going on although I have some ideas. Sometimes the WordPress app is just funky. Yes, I use WordPress as the back end for my blog. I am a cheater.

Looking ahead, 7 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 1 weeks, Spring 🌷 is in 2 weeks, Good Friday ✝️ is in 5 weeks, May 🕊 is in 8 weeks and 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ is in 13 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 76 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸

Good morning! Yeah, it’s Friday! Next Friday is 7 PM Sunset 🌆. Partly cloudy and 30 degrees at the Elm Ave Park & Ride – CDTA. ⛅ There is a east-southeast breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. A pretty decent morning although clouds are already pushing in.

Taking a well running but old hybrid bus 🚍 to work today. I really like it when they run the hybrid buses on the express route as they ride really smoothly in highway speed driving 🚥 especially when they slow at the traffic lights. It’s not a hard stop ⛔ like with the normal air brakes. Looking forward to seeing more electric buses in the future.

Today will have a chance of light rain, mainly after 5pm. Mostly cloudy 🌞, with a high of 47 degrees at 3pm. Seven degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 22nd. Northeast wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 22 degrees. The record high of 63 was set in 1974. 10.5 inches of snow fell back in 1887.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:07 pm with sun having an altitude of 42° from the due south horizon (-28.9° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 6.7 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:14 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (257°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (264°) starting at 5:49 pm and lasts for 2 minutes and 55 seconds with dusk around 6:19 pm, which is one minute and 12 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the east (100°) at an altitude of 42° from the horizon, 230,904 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:53 pm. At sunset, look for rain showers 🌧 and temperatures around 45 degrees. Not a half bad Friday night – although next week will be Daylight Savings Time so the evenings will be even nicer. There will be a northeast breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 11 hours and 30 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 53 seconds over yesterday. Not long before more day than night.

Tonight will have a chance of rain and snow showers before 9pm, then a chance of snow showers between 9pm and 1am. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 24 degrees at 6am. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 11th. North wind 9 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. In 2019, we had light snow in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 4 degrees. The record low of -6 occurred back in 1950.

Today in 1857, Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case. 🏫150 years later the Republicans still talk about it and Democrats just point out what a terrible decision it was in the context of slavery, that particular institution that lead to a war. I can see both sides of the debate, I think sometimes people aren’t as open minded about at is as they should be.

Tomorrow will be partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny 🌞, with a high of 40 degrees at 3pm. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 5th. North wind 10 to 14 mph. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 26 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1974. 10.3 inches of snow fell back in 1967.❄

Tomorrow I plan to hike out to Five Rivers Environmental Education Center 🐸 bright and early. ☀ Then organize my camping gear. 🏕Then maybe go to Schodack Island State Park and finally buy groceries at Aldis in the evening 🛍 and wash my truck 🧽 and do some cleaning at home.

Looking ahead to Sunday, sunny, with a high near 57. South wind 5 to 9 mph becoming west in the morning. Don’t forget to set your clocks back, Sunday will fly by especially with such spring like weather. Typical average high for the weekend is 41 degrees.

Sunday morning I am joining some people for a walk in the Albany Pine Bush. 🚶 I might go right after that up to Thacher Park for another walk, maybe wearing my muck boots so my feet don’t get totally soaked up there, although they aren’t all that great for any kind of hiking, but they do keep my feet dry. Then out to the folks house for Sunday dinner. I wonder if they are doing barbecue? 🍔 Might be nice enough for that.

🌹🌻🌼Only 13 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼 Less then two weeks until it’s officially the equinox and we can start thinking about mud 🐽 and nicer weather maybe.

As previously noted, next Friday is 7 PM Sunset 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 6:59 pm with dusk at 7:27 pm (Daylight Savings Time). On that day in 2019, we had partly sunny, sleet and temperatures between 44 and 21 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 43 degrees. We hit a record high of 70 back in 2012.