I think there is a good chance I’ll be able to ride to work today, five days in a row. Not too bad. I was on the fence about the weekend, but evidently it seems unlikely I’ll head ot to Schoharie for just an overnight. I’d prefer to do two or three nights camping, after all the work to set up and take down camp. Maybe next weekend, or Memorial Day Weekend. That’s coming quickly.

Good morning! Cloudy, the rain has stopped briefly and 52 degrees in Delmar. ☁ There is a southeast breeze at 5 mph. 🍃 with gusts up to 7 mph 💨💨💨. The dew point is 44 degrees.

To ride in or not to ride in. 🚵 That’s the question on my mind. I really don’t feel like busing it to work,  🚍️ it’s such a pain with the transfer to the shuttle ↔️ and I enjoy the ride and not paying the $2.60 in bus fare for the day. Plus I like the exercise and how I feel getting all pumped up 🦾 but I also don’t want to get soaked. 💦 It’s a risk to ride in this morning as there is showers all around.

Didn’t get a real early start this morning, 🛌 as I’ve been staying up a bit later with the additional daylight in the evening, and it was a kind of dark morning and I don’t want to become too sleep deprived and cranky. 🥹 I was having trouble with the food processor chopping up the carrots and bananas for the pancakes, but it turns out things were just kind of plugged up and when I cleaned it out things were good again. 🥕 Carrot pancakes again this morning, pretty good. Only one cup of coffee  ☕️ not because I was being good but because I didn’t have milk and coffee with plain Kefier isn’t the same as real coffee.

Today will have a chance of showers, mainly after 5pm. Cloudy 🌦, with a high of 62 degrees at 2pm. Eight degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 21st. East wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. 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 77 degrees. The record high of 92 was set in 1970. 5.0 inches of snow fell back in 1945.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 65.2° from the due south horizon (-5.7° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:26 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (289°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (296°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:06 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 12 seconds with dusk around 8:37 pm, which is one minute and 5 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the west-northwest (283°) at an altitude of 29° from the horizon, 238,831 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:18 pm. At sunset, look for rain showers 🌧 and temperatures around 62 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 14 hours and 31 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 14 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly before 9pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 44 degrees at 9pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 4th. South wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2023, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 40 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 2010.

Tomorrow will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 64 degrees at 9am. Six degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 26th. Maximum dew point of 56 at 9am. Southeast wind 3 to 7 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 82 degrees. The record high of 90 was set in 1911. 0.5 inches of snow fell back in 1907.❄

Looking ahead to Sunday, showers likely, mainly before 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 61. Southeast wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Maximum dew point of 43 at 8am. Typical average high for the weekend is 70 degrees.

As previously noted, next Friday is Pack Rat Day 🐀 when the sun will be setting at 8:14 pm with dusk at 8:45 pm. On that day in 2023, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 67 and 50 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 72 degrees. We hit a record high of 92 back in 2017.