Good morning! Happy Thursday. One week out from Thanksgiving. Mostly sunny and 43 degrees in Chautauqua Gorge. Quickly warming up now that the sun has risen over the horizon. Calm wind. Not a bad morning but everything is covered with a heavy frost from yesterday’s rain. 

Enjoying a nice cup of coffee in the toasty warm tent before I take things down, get washed up and changed. The sun really didn’t reach the horizon over the hill to the east of me until 8 AM. 

Today will be sunny, with a high of 54 degrees at 2pm. Seven degrees above normal. South wind 3 to 7 mph. Last year, mostly sunny with a high around 48. The record high of 73 was set in 1928. There was 2.8 inches of snow back in 1992.

Heading off to Mayville to get gas once I take down camp. Then I will stop along the lake and visit some state forests, heading south to Tiodate, PA. There is an overlook there I want to see then I will probably camp in the middle part of the Allegheny National Forest and then figure out if I will visit the Elk or the Pine Creek Gorge on Friday. Saturday it’s straight back to Albany. 

The sun will set at 4:54 pm with dusk around 5:24 pm, which is 47 seconds earlier than yesterday. Today will have 9 hours and 41 minutes of daylight, a decrease of 1 minutes and 59 seconds over yesterday. Loosing less than two minutes of daylight now. 

Tonight will be mostly clear, with a low of 46 degrees at 7pm. Very mild for November, warming up as the night progresses. 15 degrees above normal. South wind around 14 mph. One year ago, partly cloudy with a low around 22. The record low of 10 occurred back in 1972.

As I previously noted, we are one week out  until Thanksgiving when the sun will be setting at 4:49 pm with dusk at 5:20 pm. The average high temperature is 44 degrees, with a record high of 70 in 2014. Not sure if it will be