Good morning! Today is the first 4:30 PM Sunset of New Year 🌆. Or maybe it’s not, as it’s still twenty-twenty. Despite the pronouncements of the world’s worse year ever, it’s still with us for a few more days. But Friday is 2021. Go figure. Three weeks to Winnie the Pooh Day 🍯. Snow showers and 34 degrees in Delmar, NY. ❄ Breezy, ️16 mph breeze from the south 🌬 . There are 0.5 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 1 am. ☃️
I was going to go for my morning walk, 🌬 but that wind was really whipping around and a little bit fuzzy from the sleeping pill I took last night (first one in over a month), 💊I decided it best to stay home. Also my throat is a bit sore, maybe allergies from my parent’s dog. 🐕 I’ve been noticing the past few times I’ve been out there I’ve been feeling awful congested later in the evening. Or it could be a cold or the COVID but from where I don’t know, it’s not like I’ve been to any public place besides my parents house since I got propane and gasoline a week ago. I’ve really been sleeping better lately, but last night I was kind of wound up from my walk, and I wanted to get bed earlier.
Today will rain and snow showers likely before noon, then a slight chance of rain showers between noon and 1pm. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 42 degrees at 2pm. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 30th. South wind 8 to 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 44 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1982. 7.0 inches of snow fell back in 1967.❄ Not terribly cold today, but without sun, it’s not going to be a nice day for working from the library.
Working from home should work well, 🏠 with my new cell plan. I will do all the video things on my phone, and then reserve my laptop for emails and other things that don’t use a lot of data. But so far I’ve ended up using not all that much data, because I’ve been trying to conserve. 💻 But it still nice to be able to pull up tabs in the browser and do modest amounts of web work on my laptop. It’s great for coding — I can easily cut and paste code into projects I’m building. 🖱
Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:58 am with sun having an altitude of 24.1° from the due south horizon (-46.7° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 13.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:44 pm with the sun in the southwest (231°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (239°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:30 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 24 seconds with dusk around 5:01 pm, which is 44 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the east-northeast (73°) at an altitude of 18° from the horizon, 247,678 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:38 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 40 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 4 minutes of daytime, an increase of 29 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 26 degrees at 6am. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around December 4th. West wind 6 to 10 mph. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 26 degrees. The record low of -18 occurred back in 1933.
Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, a chance of rain and snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 42. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 36. Typical average high for the weekend is 31 degrees.
I am really on the fence about this weekend. 🏕🌨 It looks like it’s trending cooler and might be more snow, and that might be better for camping, as I will park by the road and use the sled to drag my gear back to camp. But it also could be pretty cold and damp. While I can stay warm next to heater, it still is going to be a lot cooler. Also, if the weather forecast is accurate, they might get a 1/2 foot of snow in the Adirondacks, and that’s problematic with my tent, which certainly is not a winter tent. 🌨 Plus I worry about getting plowed in from the snow. There is always January, or maybe February and March. And then it will be warmer weather in April. If things are still remote work come April, maybe I can camp, work out from the woods, and then do some trout fishing.
As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Winnie the Pooh Day 🍯 when the sun will be setting at 4:51 pm with dusk at 5:22 pm. On that day in 2020, we had snow, cloudy and temperatures between 30 and 10 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 30 degrees. We hit a record high of 59 back in 1973.
