I am hoping the rain holds off for a while so I can ride to work. That said, who knows if I’ll get wet on the way in, and I concede I’ll probably be quite wet come the afternoon for the ride back to the express. I don’t expect to ride all that the way back to Delmar. It’s fine, I think we’ve made it to the mild part of the year, and I can’t imagine the green up is far away.

Good morning! Clouds and a bit damp with the breeze picking up, around 55 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁️ There is a south-southeast breeze at 14 mph. 🍃 with gusts up to 24 mph 💨💨💨. The dew point is 43 degrees. The skies will clear Friday around 3 pm.

At five o’clock this morning ⏰ I got the bread and spaghetti squash a cooking, along with a pot of cranberry beans. 🫘🍞 Two types of bread baked, one is carrot 🥕 bread and the other one is onion bread. 🧅 Dinner tonight, which I’m sure I’ll be enjoying after getting soaked on the ride home ☔ will be chicken 🐔 soup. Eggs 🥚 for breakfast.

Riding in this morning 🚲 but I concede it will likely be the last time this week. 😔 Just going to rain most of the second half of the week. ☔ Probably get wet riding from Menands to the old train 🚉 station in the evening waiting for the bus 🚍 but in the evening I don’t care and can get changed when I get back home 🏡.

Today will have showers likely, mainly after 2pm. Cloudy 🌦, with a high of 61 degrees at 3pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 18th. Maximum dew point of 49 at 5pm. South wind around 14 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 67 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 1922. 5.7 inches of snow fell back in 1961.❄

Not going to be the nicest day ever ☔ but not so cold and I have to work. Plus I appreciate how mild it’s been and I’ve had my windows open helping to ensure lots of fresh air at night for good sleeping. 🛏 I feel well rested after last night with the windows open. 🪟 I’m glad the nicer weather is back again. Yesterday felt so nice with the temperature reaching the mid seventies by afternoon with lots of sun ☀.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:57 pm with sun having an altitude of 55.5° from the due south horizon (-15.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 4.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:55 pm with the sun in the west (276°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (282°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:32 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 57 seconds with dusk around 8:01 pm, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the west (277°) at an altitude of 23° from the horizon, 231,965 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:36 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 57 degrees. The dew point will be 50 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 14 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 49 seconds over yesterday.

Last night went to the park 🏞 and read for a while before coming home to knead bread. Dinner was sweet potatoes 🥔 and onions and other good stuff. I didn’t carry a physical book, 📙 just more reading with that Libby App. It’s pretty awesome. 📱

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly after 4am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 50 degrees at 5am. 15 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 20th. South wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2023, we had clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 37 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1874.

Weekend looks kind of suck again. 😕 Saturday, a chance of showers before 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 51. Breezy. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Sunday, a chance of showers after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 62. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 46 at 7pm. At least it will be wet until the green up reducing the fire risk. 🔥 Typical average high for the weekend is 58 degrees.

Believe it or not there are 3 weeks until May 🕊 when the sun will be setting at 7:57 pm with dusk at 8:26 pm. On that day in 2023, we had rain and temperatures between 59 and 45 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 66 degrees. We hit a record high of 86 back in 2001. By then things should be greening up nicely at least outside of the high country and the Adirondacks. 🌸