Good afternoon! Rain and 44 degrees in Delmar. ☔ There is a south-southeast breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. The skies will clear tomorrow around 9 am.

I’m feeling somewhat better today due to a fairly good night’s sleep 🛏 , it was tough last week I’ve had my very severe sleeping disorder coming back. Figuring out my housing situation and how I want to live when I grow up is increasingly frustrating 😤. I really don’t like what is out there on the market for homes 🏡 and really want to do the simple, off grid thing.

This afternoon will rain. 🌧 High of 45 degrees at 4pm. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 15th. South wind around 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 41 degrees. The record high of 65 was set in 1991. 11.9 inches of snow fell back in 2018.❄

No big plans for today, books planning on going to the library to get more books out on owner home building and sustainable design. 📚 Plus I’m interested in learning CAD – computer aidedto design – so I can better put my dream house down on paper which will help me present my ideas 💭 to contractors and builders. I’m really thinking radically simple. With a plan in hand 👷 it’s so much easier to get what I want rather than vague notions of land out in the country 🚜 maybe with livestock and some green features. 🌲I don’t want to box myself in but I also don’t want to be flopping around with no idea 💡 what I want or much worse know what I want but lack words to describe it.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:08 pm with sun having an altitude of 40.4° from the due south horizon (-30.4° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 7 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:09 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (255°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (262°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:47 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 56 seconds with dusk around 6:14 pm, which is one minute and 13 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:48 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 45 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 11 hours and 21 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 51 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain, mainly before 10pm. Patchy fog between midnight and 2am. 🌧 Low of 42 degrees at 4am. 20 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 27th. East wind around 7 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2023, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 27 degrees. The record low of -10 occurred back in 1950.

Today in 1989, Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) 🥫❌ by the end of the century.

Looking ahead, there are 8 weeks until Arbor Day 🌳 when the sun will be setting at 7:52 pm with dusk at 8:21 pm (Daylight Savings Time). On that day in 2023, we had partly cloudy, patches of fog and temperatures between 62 and 40 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 65 degrees. We hit a record high of 91 back in 1962.