Saturday, April 20, 2024

4/20

Mornin'!  It's 51° in Wildwood NJ.  It's cloudy and gray again with light breezes out of the SW at 3-5mph.  We're going to have a cloudy start to the day with 25% chance of a rain shower or two.  In fact, it's raining along the coast north of us at the moment.  The sky will clear out as it'll become partly sunny by later this morning or later this afternoon.  It remains to be seen.  Temps will get up into the low-60s with West winds at 5-10mph.  Tonight... mostly clear with a few passing clouds, temps will drop into the mid-40s with N-NW winds at 10-15mph.  Tomorrow... another cloudy day with temps in the mid-50s and W-NW winds at 10-15mph.  It doesn't appear that we'll have any rain. 
It's 420!  Weed day! While no one can say for certain, rumors have circled that 420 was the code police used to describe marijuana smoking; 420 is the number of active chemicals in weed that get you high; April 20th was Bob Marley's birthday (it wasn't); that it's a reference to Bob Dylan's song "Rainy Day Women #12+35 (12 times 35 equals 420). In reality, it's much simpler... a group of high school students back in the '70s would meet after school (always at 4:20) to get high and eventually started using 420 as a code for meeting up and smoking weed.  Whatever the case, New Jersey has legalized marijuana. There are laws surrounding weed but Pot is legal in the Garden State.  The last I heard, there are over 100 legal recreational dispensaries in New Jersey.  
https://data.nj.gov/Reference-Data/New-Jersey-Cannabis-Dispensary-List/p3ry-ipie/data_preview
And, before I forget... we could see a Comet flying through the sky tomorrow around Sunset. A bright green comet (12P/Pons-Brooks) known as the Devil and Mother Of Dragons, will reach peak visibility around then.  Looking west at sunset, you may spot it with binoculars.  It's time to pull out that telescope if you have one and hope the sky is clear tomorrow when the sun sets.
High Tide: 6:39PM
Low Tide: 12:25PM
Ocean Temp: 52°
Sunrise: 6:14AM
Sunset: 7:41PM

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