Good morning! Happy Square Dance Day. Left, left, back, right, do it again again. Dark morning, now with rain on and off, with temperatures around 45 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a south-southeast breeze at 14 mph. Rain tomorrow. The skies will clear Thursday around noontime and it looks like a nice weekend on tap, at least for early December.

Rain is expected today. High of 53 degrees at 1pm. Fairly warm for late November, 11 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 48 at 2pm. South wind 10 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies and a high of 41 degrees. Pretty much like today but maybe slightly less wet. The record high of 66 was set in 2005. 3.3 inches of snow fell back in 1945.

The sun will set at 4:23 pm with dusk around 4:54 pm, which is 22 seconds earlier than yesterday. Today will have 9 hours and 18 minutes of daylight, a decrease of 1 minutes and 27 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of rain before 7pm, then a chance of showers between 7pm and 10pm. Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low of 42 degrees at 5am. A mild evening, 15 degrees above normal. Southeast wind around 6 mph becoming calm after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2015, it got down to 22 degrees under partly clear skies. The record low of -10 occurred back in 1875. A few years before my time.

There are 2 months until My 34th Birthday when the sun will be setting at 5:06 pm with dusk at 5:36 pm. The average high temperature is 32 degrees, with a record high of 61 in 1895. Winter is cold. I guess I should look forward to getting a year old, but it sure is a cold time of the year. But I’m sure I’ll still get out camping once or twice in January.

Went down to the library and then for the evening. I have my PostGIS database almost back up and running although for some reason when I imported it didn’t create a GIST index against the geography. So it’s running slowly. I think I may have forgotten to install hstore first which is part of the problem. So I’m going to rebuild that table. I updated the wetlands maps for several counties that relatively recently updated their maps. I fixed waterbodies so no longer are the they divided by counties, with ugly side-effects in maps for bodies of water that cross multiple counties.

I think I walked around 8 miles yesterday. Which was good, because with this dark morning and the threat of rain, I did not take the express bus, but instead to the local to work. So I didn’t get my mile walk down to the bus. I still will walk during lunch, so that will give me 2-3 miles plus if I walk down to the library and back that’s 1.2 miles. Throw in the evening walk, and I’ll be over five. It all depends on if the weather holds off.

Good morning! Definitely a frosty morning but that sun is pushing the mercury up quickly. Mostly sunny and 30 degrees in Delmar. Calm wind. Based on the mushroom cloud coming out of the natural gas power plant downtown, I would say there is a bit of a temperature inversion over the valley. A bit of a southerly breeze in the higher elevations of the atmosphere. The sun angle is getting low based on the shadows cast by the Empire State Plaza.

That sun was really in my eyes walking down to the Park and Ride, although it at least was warm. I avoided the Jehovah Witness folks that had set up a literature at my bus stop at the Park and Ride. It looked like one of Delmar’s good liberals was keeping them occupied. I can only imagine what was being said.  I’m sure they were friendly.

This past weekend, I’ve only been walking an average of 3.5 miles per day. Which I will probably double now that the weekdays are back and I can walk during lunch at work. I’ll also most likely walk down to the library this evening and do my evening walk, so I should have closer to 7 miles under my boot by the end of the day. I’m trying to walk a lot every day because I know it’s so healthy, and it will help from having further ankle problems going forward.

Looks like we have a very nice day on tap. For most of the day it should be quite sunny, reaching a high of 45 degrees at 3pm. Two degrees above normal. Light and variable wind becoming southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had rain and a high of 58 degrees. The record high of 68 was set in 1990. 6 inches of snow fell back in 1985.

The sun will set at 4:23 pm with dusk around 4:55 pm, which is 25 seconds earlier than yesterday. Today will have 9 hours and 19 minutes of daylight, a decrease of 1 minute and 32 seconds over yesterday. We still have another minute and 49 seconds to loose the evenings, before the sun starts setting later, come December 9th. The first sunset after 5 PM is on January 25th.

Tonight will be cloudy, with rain late, mainly after 5am. Looking at a low of 35 degrees at 2am. Seven degrees above normal. Southeast wind 3 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. In 2015, it got down to 28 degrees under mostly cloudy skies. The record low of 3 occurred back in 1875.

Traffic is backed up a little bit heading into the Empire State Plaza. Not sure why but sometimes there are special events on our weekdays. It gives me a little more time to work on the blog.

Looking ahead to 2017, there are 7 weeks until Martin Luther King Day when the sun will be setting at 4:49 pm with dusk at 5:20 pm. On that day in 2016, we had rain, snow and temperatures between 40 and 29 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 30 degrees. We hit a record high of 62 back in 1995. The weather is cold in January.

Waffles stacked with blueberries and sausage for breakfast this morning. An easy and good breakfast while I got ready. While I was up so early last week, over the past long weekend, I’ve kind of fallen back into the habit of sleeping in and staying up late. Well, I did make the express bus.

Enjoy your day. The weather will beautiful today but the rain and clouds will come in. Lots of sun for Thursday and Friday.