Good morning! Already Wednesday or maybe the week is going too slow. Farmers Market Day, maybe I will get some apples 🍏 to have in my office.

Mostly cloudy and 27 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. There are 7 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ Just remember that number come tomorrow. ️Things will start to thaw out at around 10 am. 🌡️

Nice morning before the snow storm 🌨 though kind of gray. But the mornings aren’t as dark as they were only a few weeks ago, and to boot I was out walking before 6:45. The skies to the southeast are very firery red. 🌅

Been trying to get out earlier for my morning walk 🚶 which the lighter breakfasts and less procrastination help a lot at that. I may also push back my first alarm ⏰ to 5:45 am so I have more time to fool around before getting out of bed 🛏.

Today will snow. The snow could be heavy at times. 🌨 High of 33 degrees at 11am. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 4th. Light south wind becoming southeast 8 to 13 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Total daytime snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 29 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1938. 9.5 inches of snow fell back in 2000.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:08 pm with sun having an altitude of 28.4° from the due south horizon (-42.4° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 11.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:17 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (237°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (245°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:59 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 13 seconds with dusk around 5:29 pm, which is one minute and 17 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the southwest (215°) at an altitude of 38° from the horizon, 231,506 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:04 pm. At sunset, look for snow 🌨 and temperatures around 32 degrees. There will be a southeast breeze at 14 mph. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 48 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 8 seconds over today.

Cynthia Pooler of Focus on Albany fame 🎤 was going to have a fundraiser and recording sessio for her documentary on Reszin Adams but with the snow storm coming and the fact it’s all the way out in Colonie and no where near a bus stop 🚏makes me think that it’s best to mail ✉ a check. If it had been in Albany I probably would have gone even if it was snowy, but I’m not driving in this crap or walking in a blizzard and suit and tie in the automobile ghetto.

Tonight will rain and snow before midnight, then a chance of rain between midnight and 1am, then a slight chance of rain showers after 1am. 🌧 Low of 32 degrees at 6pm. 16 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 30th. Southeast wind 12 to 17 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 15 degrees. The record low of -17 occurred back in 1920.

I am not really sure what to expect about the snow storm. ☔ It’s probably going to be an elevation storm but lately a lot of people are saying more snow. I still am considering camping for my 40th birthday 🎂 but Friday looks cold and there might be a ton of heavy wet snow to shovel out a parking 🅿 spot.

NOAA is still saying more clouds for the weekend. ☁️ But mild so the snow won’t stick around in any quantity. Saturday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 40. Sunday, a chance of rain and snow after 1pm. Cloudy, with a high near 38. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Typical average high for the weekend is 33 degrees.

As previously noted, next Wednesday is February 🌧 when the sun will be setting at 5:09 pm with dusk at 5:38 pm. On that day in 2022, we had snow and temperatures between 25 and 10 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 33 degrees. We hit a record high of 65 back in 1989.

Good evening! Rain showers and 33 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌧️ There is a southeast breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. Going to warm up as the night progresses.

The best way to describe the weather this evening is sloppy 🌧️ with a lot of slush around. Just wet not icy locally and it’s only going to warm up as the night progresses. Wasn’t raining hard, so I went for my evening walk 🚶 in my waterproof boots. 👢

It was a pretty ordinary day, 🏢 fairly busy as expected and sloppy in the evening but I did my walk. I don’t have much to complain about. Tomorrow is Friday. 😲

Tonight will rain and snow before 4am, then a slight chance of snow between 4am and 5am, then a chance of rain and snow after 5am. 🌧 Low of 33 degrees at 8pm. 18 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 5th. Saves on the heat. Southeast wind 5 to 7 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of less than one inch possible. In 2022, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became snow by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 14 degrees. The record low of -22 occurred back in 1970.

I think tomorrow will be wet and sloppy ☔ though things could freeze up but I have my doubts. I’ll try to do my morning walk 🚶 in the morning. I’m not convinced that there will be a lot of snow come the weekend locally. I’m more concerned about Sunday and visiting the folks but maybe it will be okay earlier in the day.

Tonight will have a Waining Crescent 🌘 Moon with 4% illuminated. The Snow ❄ Moon is on Saturday, February 4. The darkest hour is at 12:07 am, followed by dawn at 6:50 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:21 am in the east-southeast (118°) and last for 3 minutes and 16 seconds. Sunrise is 36 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 8:05 am with sun in the southeast (125°). Tonight will have 14 hours and 24 minutes of darkness, a decrease of one minute and 51 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will rain and snow showers before 2pm, then a slight chance of rain showers between 2pm and 3pm, then a slight chance of rain and snow showers after 3pm. 🌧 High of 39 degrees at 2pm. Seven degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 25th. South wind 5 to 11 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had light snow in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 30 degrees. The record high of 53 was set in 2006. 10.4 inches of snow fell back in 2019.❄

In four weeks on February 16 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (254°) at 5:29 pm,🌄 which is 36 minutes and 15 seconds later then tonight. In 2021 on that day, we had freezing rain and temperatures between 34 and 21 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 36 and 18 degrees. The record high of 61 degrees was set back in 2006.

Looking ahead, Ground Hog Day 🐻 is in two weeks, Average High is 35 ☀️ is in 3 weeks, Read Across America Day 📚 is in 6 weeks, Last Day of Winter 🏂 is in 2 months, Arbor Day 🌳 is in 14 weeks, 8:30 PM Dusk 🌆 is in 15 weeks, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 15 weeks, 9 PM Dusk 🌆 is in 19 weeks, June 🍹 is in 19 weeks, 8:30 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 20 weeks, Average High is 80 🏖 is in 5 months, Ugly Truck Day 🚚 is in 26 weeks, Campfire Day 🔥 is in 28 weeks, Columbus Day ⛵ is in 38 weeks, Average High is 60 🍂 is in 9 months, Thanksgiving 🦃 is in 44 weeks, First Day of Winter ☃️ is in 48 weeks and 4:30 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 49 weeks.

Good morning! It’s the first Monday of the New Year. As New Years Day occurred on a Sunday, this would be a holiday. It’s good because it’s a cloudy and I’m bad at getting off my ass, and I did not get out walking at 6:45 AM when it was still pitch black out. But later on it will clear out and we will have weather that will be resembling the first day of spring, until it no longer feels like that later in the week. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Thursday around 11 pm. ☃️ But even after that, it won’t feel like January for a while until eventually it does. I figure it will feel like a deep frozen hell by the time my 40th birthday rolls around, and I’ll once again be trying to stay warm under the heated blanket.

Mostly cloudy and 36 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. One week to Static Electric day, but with warm, damp conditions, I don’t expect much of a need for a static discharge strip around your arm anytime soon. 🤯 I am not prepared to be shocked anytime soon unless I touch a 120 volt line in all the rain we are expected to get mid-week. At least shit won’t dry out, so if I head out for the King’s weekend and have a big ass fire, 🔥 to make up for staying home over New Years Eve like a lame and poor duck, I won’t have to worry about burning down the woods.

Out for the morning walk 🚶 at Elm Ave Park and then I will take a shower 🚿 and then do a quick hike up Bennett Hill and then out to the folks house 🏡 for New Years Fondue 🫕 the wonderful tradition invented by dairymen who raise those Big Brown Swiss 🇨🇭🐄 to sell more cheese 🧀 in the dairy boom of the 1970s while input prices were rising and Americans wanted cheaper food during an era of inflation. But dipping bread and salty cocktail frank’s in melted dairy fat and wine is so good. I haven’t showered since Friday morning before work so I’m do for a good scrub.

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 48 degrees at 1pm. 14 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 22nd. I believe that is called spring, which appears for now to be coming early, but I don’t think we can stick a fork in winter yet. ⛄ But who knows about skiing on Martin Luther’s birthday weekend. Always so cold, but maybe not this year. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph. A year ago, we had mist in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 49 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1890. 7.1 inches of snow fell back in 2014.❄

Today got to boil my muzzles 😷 and then hang them to dry. I find boiling them with soapy water 💦 helps to get them clean and tightens up the fabric to keep the COVID away. I got the latest and greatest COVID boosters and flu shots but I hate doctors 🏥 and have zero interest in getting sick. Now if they could only bring back work from home 🏡 though I’m not sure I’d want to pay for the extra heat and electricity in these inflationary times.

They’re back in town this week 👨🏻‍💼 so I also have to iron my shirt and polish my swanky dress shoes and black steel toe boots. I wear the black boots back and forth to work through the snow, rain and muck and to prolong the life of my increasingly worn out dress shoes which I probably will need to replace later in the year. I mostly keep them for wearing in office at my desk for comfort and those odd times I get summoned over the Capitol or go over there to snag some soggy salmon or chicken dipped in that werid sauce rich people like so I save my packed dinner for a later date. But that doesn’t happen much these now that I’m Deputy in Research, it’s mostly behind a computer reading 📖 backgrounds and running stats. 🔢 But the security guards 💂 say I look swanky and less like a hillbilly when I wear my blazer and tie.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:00 pm with sun having an altitude of 24.5° from the due south horizon (-46.4° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 13.2 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. See I know a little trigonometry, mainly because I did some shadow analysis of that movie theater for Save the Pine Bush. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:48 pm with the sun in the southwest (231°). 📸 Keep that in mind photographers, especially today with it clearing out. 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 23 seconds with dusk around 5:05 pm, which is 52 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the east (97°) at an altitude of 39° from the horizon, 244,259 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:41 pm. At sunset, look for partly sunny skies 🌃 and temperatures around 45 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 12 minutes of daytime, an increase of 52 seconds over today.

Tonight will have a slight chance of showers after 4am. Increasing clouds 🌧, with a low of 34 degrees at 12am. 16 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 7th. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2022, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 13 degrees. The record low of -14 occurred back in 1970.

A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Well, by January standards, as the winter thaw continues. Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 39. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 37. Typical average high for the weekend is 33 degrees. But we know what is next, it will come, and it will be ducking cold. Yet, for now I’m enjoying the heat being off, and still comfortable in a t-shirt inside, and a vest outside. You can probably guess what t-shirt that is. That said, I probably should buy one of those Palpation Nation shirts with the guy AI-ing a cow on it, so I can be cool like the interwebs, and actually wear that one to work on a casual summer day. But as I’ve been telling myself for two years now, I don’t buy shit like that even if I probably would wear it a lot.

As previously noted, next Monday is Static Electric Shock Day 🧼 when the sun will be setting at 4:41 pm with dusk at 5:11 pm. On that day in 2022, we had mostly cloudy, freezing rain showers and temperatures between 36 and 19 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 33 degrees. We hit a record high of 62 back in 2008.