Good morning! What day is it? Hump Day, of course. Five weeks to 7 PM Sunset 🌆. Partly sunny and 25 degrees in Delmar. There is a north breeze at 5 mph. Reasonably cool for early February but with the sun I didn’t have to button my coat on the way down to the express bus. 🍃. Things will start to thaw out at around 11 am. 🌡️

I got up reasonably early this morning but breakfast took a little longer than I expected so I wasn’t sure if I would have time to make the express.🚌 But I hurried through my shower got dressed and made it down to the Park and Ride with a few minutes to spare. The express is always a nice way to get to work.💼

Today will have a chance of rain, mainly after 3pm. Increasing clouds 🌞, with a high of 38 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical day around February 26th. North wind 5 to 8 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had light snow in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. The high last year was 30 degrees. The record high of 55 was set in 1991. 10.8 inches of snow fell back in 1978.❄

The sun will set at 5:15 pm with dusk around 5:45 pm, which is one minute and 19 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain showers to beginning 🌧 and temperatures around 38 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 8 mph. I doubt we will get much freezing rain in the Albany-area. Today will have 10 hours and 13 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 31 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain, mainly before 4am. 🌧 Low of 34 degrees at 2am. 17 degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical night around April 3rd. South wind 3 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. In 2018, we had cloudy in the evening then snowed by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 13 degrees. The record low of -18 occurred back in 1995.

Tomorrow will have a chance of rain, mainly after 2pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a high of 44 degrees at 2pm. 11 degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical day around March 15th. Calm wind becoming southeast 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had light snow in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. The high last year was 27 degrees. The record high of 48 was set in 2005. 12.4 inches of snow fell back in 1983.❄

Tuesday I was home by six o’clock which really wasn’t much worse than normal, although I had to catch the local home. 🚌 I had some stew that my parents made up a few weeks ago for lunch so I had a light dinner. 🍲This week has been busy at work but not quite so crazy.

Listened to Marketplace for a while watched a short YouTube video from How Farms Work about feeding cows in the extreme cold, I then went for my evening walk.🚶 It had gotten cold by evening when I was walking but I have to say it was definitely nice earlier in the day. Not a terrible night for the evening walk.🌃 Lots of starts. I thought about going down to the library but I do that too much and I figured I’d rather do my walk then go to the library for internet access.

Bought some milk at the store, listened to about 45 minutes of the governors speech. I meant to say President. They’re all politicians, not sure if I could really tell the difference between Trump and Cuomo, they agree on about 90% of all issues.  I kind of liked what he had to say until he got into his obsession over the wall. I wish he would keep his thoughts on the wall between himself and his hand in the Lincoln Bedroom. The milk was good, as it always is from Stewart’s. I always buy one percent. 🐮The work dairy farmers due is much more important then a figure head 👤 some five hundred miles away, as quality milk is much more important to my life than the federal government.🐄 Mornings, or for that matter dinner would not be the same with out milk. Needless to say, I’m a big milk drinker. So moo!

Continuing to work on the code for my lights in my bedroom. All the major classes and methods are done, now it’s just a matter of debugging and fine tuning the special modes. 🐞 I like being able to control things from my phone and turn the lights on upstairs from outside when I get home after dark. I also like the full control I have over the color and my virtual sunrise and sunset each day.💻 Writing your own code, soldering and building your own devices has a lot of rewards.

Looking ahead, there are 5 weeks until 7 PM Sunset 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 6:59 pm with dusk at 7:27 pm (Daylight Savings Time). On that day in 2018, we had snow and temperatures between 34 and 30 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 43 degrees. We hit a record high of 70 back in 2012.

A picture perfect February weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 29. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 32. Typical average high for the weekend is 33 degrees. Still looks like it’s pretty nice weekend, but maybe not quite good enough to head out of town. I’m going to have to think about it a bit more, it all depends how much snow we loose over the next few days.

In four weeks on March 6 the sun will be setting at 5:51 pm,🌄 which is 35 minutes and 32 seconds later then today. In 2018 on that day, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 45 and 23 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 40 and 22 degrees. The record high of 63 degrees was set back in 1974.

Looking ahead, 7 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 5 weeks, May 🕊 is in 12 weeks, 8:30 PM Sunset ⛱️ is in 17 weeks and Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 102 weeks.