Good evening! Rain and 55 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ Breezy, ️17 mph breeze from the south-southeast 🌬 with gusts up to 30 mph 💨💨💨. The dew point is 50 degrees.

The Lyme Disease round 2 is no joke and I’m going to call the doctor on the morning 😷 and figure out this telemedicine thing. I wanted to wait for the bulls eye but I’m so achy and sore and pulled that big gorged tick on Tuesday. 🐜 I guess round 2 of Lyme hits a lot harder. I didn’t even think about my evening walk. I just hope come morning I won’t be too stiff and sore to climb the stairs. I’m sure once I get on doxycline I’ll be fine 💊 but this is pretty awful.

I’d like to get up to the Adirondacks this weekend for some social distancing ⛺ but with the Lyme disease and the mud and particularly the rain that is going to last through Friday night I don’t see it happening. Going to be a nice weekend so I’ll have to figure out what I can do closer to home. Weather is only going to improve as summer approaches and once I make up my mind on the screen house for camping I’ll have a black fly free zone for enjoying a long weekend camping.

Tonight will rain. The rain could be heavy at times. 🌧 Low of 53 degrees at 6am. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 30th. Maximum dew point of 52 at 4am. 🏖️ Southeast wind 11 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half 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.

Tonight will have a First Quarter 🌓 Moon with 54% illuminated. At 9 PM, the moon was in the southwest (225°) at an altitude of 61° from the horizon, some 230,996 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 22^nd. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Flower 🌷 Moon is on Thursday, May 7. The darkest hour is at 12:53 am, followed by dawn at 5:21 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:52 am in the east-northeast (69°) and last for 3 minutes and 6 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 22 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:31 am with sun in the east-northeast (75°). Tonight will have 9 hours and 54 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 30 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will rain before 10am, then a chance of showers between 10am and 3pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. 🌦 High of 63 degrees at 3pm. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 29th. Maximum dew point of 54 at 1pm. 🏖️ Southeast wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 56 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 2001. There was a dusting of snow in 1978.❄

In four weeks on May 28 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (301°) at 8:23 pm,🌄 which is 28 minutes and 47 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had rain showers, mostly cloudy and temperatures between 57 and 50 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 73 and 51 degrees. The record high of 93 degrees was set back in 2016.

Looking ahead, Flower Moon 🌕 is in 1 week.

🇺🇸🦅Only 22 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸

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! Partly clear and 52 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a north breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. Nice evening, sat out back for a while. Evening 🌃 walk was full of moonlight and stars.

A few random things going on at work today 💼 but relatively quiet for most of the day. I went out to Five Rivers Environmental Education Center for a walk 🐸 and the internet. I was super annoyed that I couldn’t upload my Coronavirus map the normal way to the blog – an issue I’m going to research and figure out tomorrow.

I continued to work on my comments and analysis for Save the Pine Bush regarding the development of the apartment complex in the Pine Bush. 🌲Lots of rendering maps and studying data. I may also do some interviews for additional background.

Pulled another fully engorged tick 🐜off my arm this evening 🙋, after I noticed my arm was stinging. I am guessing that I have Lyme disease again but I’ll wait for a bulls eye rash to appear. I did feel a bit achy today so I’m sure that’s what I got. 🎯I should have checked more carefully after hiking back through the brush on Saturday at Partridge Run. 🌲 I’ll have to figure out the telemedicine thing which sucks as I don’t have internet at home but I can probably take pictures and go to the library to get Wi-Fi if necessary. I guess the first step is to call 📞 the nurse line if I am sure I have Lyme. Doxycline is $5 and approved telemedicine is free 🆓 during Coronavirus but I just hope that I don’t get super sick from Lyme. 😷

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 38 degrees at 5am. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 18th. North wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. In 2019, we had clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 31 degrees. The record low of 27 occurred back in 1947.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon with 32% illuminated. At 10 PM, the moon was in the west (271°) at an altitude of 36° from the horizon, some 236,130 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 24^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺You don’t want to go to the hospital 🏥 during a pandemic due to an aborted mission to space. Click it or ticket 🎫 from the space cops. 👮 I bet social distancing is hard in zero gravity. The Flower 🌷 Moon is on Thursday, May 7. The darkest hour is at 12:54 am, followed by dawn at 5:24 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:54 am in the east-northeast (70°) and last for 3 minutes and 6 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 25 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:33 am with sun in the east-northeast (76°). Tonight will have 9 hours and 59 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 32 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of showers after 1pm. Increasing clouds ⛅ with a high of 56 degrees at 1pm. Eight degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 11th. Light southeast wind becoming south 8 to 13 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 58 degrees. The record high of 88 was set in 1888. 1 inch of snow fell back in 1885.❄

Not a real wash out tomorrow 💦but the heavy rain comes Thursday into Friday – probably multiple inches of good soaking rain. ☔ Rain is a good thing. While we’ve had a lot of dreary days in April with some showers things are still quite dry as we go into May and a good soaker would be a good thing. I am a bit concerned about how though it will infringe on my weekend plans – right now the rain looks to continue into Friday night into Saturday. Maybe it won’t be a good weekend to get away? A lot depends on this tick bite and if it develops into full blown Lyme. I should have checked more carefully last weekend.

In four weeks on May 26 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (300°) at 8:21 pm,🌄 which is 29 minutes and 17 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 86 and 57 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 72 and 50 degrees. The record high of 94 degrees was set back in 2010.

Looking ahead, Cinco de Mayo 🤠 is in 1 week, Primary Day 🗳️ is in 8 weeks, Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 27 weeks and Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 27 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 24 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸

Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Second gear of the week. 🔅That grinds my gears. Not really required we should be able to jump to Hump Day, say the camel dairymen of the world. 🐪 But I’m old enough to remember taking the bus to work and lementing Tuesday on the bus. Next Tuesday is Cinco de Mayo 🤠. Taco Tuesday too. I wonder if we will be able to get Corona beer with the breweries shut down. 🍻 Protest movement! ✊ Overcast and 42 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a northwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. Not a very nice morning so far but it will get nice out later. The skies will clear around 9 am. ☀

Today will be mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny ⛅ , with a high of 61 degrees at 5pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 22nd. Northwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the afternoon. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning, remaining cloudy 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.❄

Hoping to work outside most of the day 😎 and soak up some sun. And then maybe go to the library or Five Rivers so I can upload the remainder of the photos from the weekend and get some fresh air and podcasts. Pay day too but that doesn’t change much as most of the money will be going towards rent. 💵 I also want to shorten my list 📃 of screened rooms for camping so I can order by next weekend and have for the black fly season of Memorial Day Weekend.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:54 pm with sun having an altitude of 61.7° from the due south horizon (-9.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.2 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:14 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (284°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (291°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:53 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 6 seconds with dusk around 8:23 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the west-southwest (254°) at an altitude of 52° from the horizon, 236,323 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:01 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 57 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Should be a great evening. Today will have 13 hours and 59 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 33 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 37 degrees at 5am. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 15th. Light and variable wind. In 2019, we had clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 31 degrees. The record low of 27 occurred back in 1947.

The weekend continues to be good although timing for the rain to pull out Friday must be watched. ☀ Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 64. Maximum dew point of 46 at 6am. Sunday, a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 68. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 46 at 10am. Typical average high for the weekend is 65 degrees.

As previously noted, next Tuesday is Cinco de Mayo 🤠 when the sun will be setting at 8:00 pm with dusk at 8:31 pm. On that day in 2019, we had rain showers, partly cloudy and temperatures between 58 and 52 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 66 degrees. We hit a record high of 91 back in 1944.