Good evening! Rain and 60 degrees in Delmar, NY. Slight breeze from the south-south east with occassional gusts of wind and bursts of rain  The dew point is 59 degrees. The weather will get worse as the night proceeds but should improve by morning. I recommend doing what I will be doing shortly — retiring to bed early — and just letting the worse of rain and wind blow over. The skies will clear tomorrow around noontime.

Today wasn’t a bad day. Got some much needed rest and relaxation at home, did some cleaning and unpacking of camping gear. Kitchen is well stocked, should I not be able to get my truck in for an inspection this week. But I think I will be able to do that. 

Tonight will rain and possibly a thunderstorm before 4am, then rain likely. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Low of 53 degrees at 6am. 15 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 59 at 8pm. Windy, with a southeast wind 17 to 22 mph increasing to 24 to 29 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 45 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible. In 2016, we had cloudy skies with some clearing in the early hours of the next day. It got down to 43 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1969.

Tonight will have a with 72% illuminated.The moon will set tonight at 1:59 am. The Beaver Moon is on Friday night with showers is likely. The sun will rise at 7:26 am with the first light at 6:57 am, which is one minute and 14 seconds later than yesterday. Tonight will have 13 hours and 36 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 36 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of rain before 8am, then a chance of showers between 8am and 2pm. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high of 53 degrees at 6am. One degrees below normal. Maximum dew point of 48 at 6am. Windy, with a west wind 25 to 33 mph, with gusts as high as 60 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies. The high last year was 60 degrees. The record high of 80 was set in 1946. 0.1 inches of snow fell back in 1925.

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 52. Sunday, a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 52. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Typical average high for the weekend is 53 degrees.

Had Sunday dinner with Mom and Dad, the first one since mom has gotten back home. It was a nice dinner. It’s tough to watch your parents age, getting old is not neccessarily a wonderful, graceful thing. But I enjoy every minute I still have with them.

Heading to bed shortly, as even though the severe weather hasn’t started yet, I want to be asleep before we risk losing power. Maybe it’s a good thing that the landlord cut down all the trees in the yard — I no longer have to worry about a tree falling on my apartment or my truck. 

Back to work tomorrow. Yet another five day week. But hopefully it will be a productive one. I am covering for one of my colleagues tomorrow, so I expect a busy day.

In four weeks on November 26 the sun will be setting at 4:24 pm (Standard Time), which is one hour, 26 minutes and 34 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2016 on that day, we had rain, drizzle, shallow fog, patches of fog, mist, cloudy skies and temperatures between 43 and 35 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 44 and 29 degrees. The record high of 67 degrees was set back in 1979.

Looking ahead, Daylight Savings Time Ends is in 1 week, Cold Moon is in 5 weeks, Christmas Eve is in 8 weeks, New Years Eve is in 9 weeks and 35th Birthday is in 2 months.

Good morning! Happy Sunday. Next Sunday is Daylight Savings Time Ends. Light rain and 63 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a south-southeast breeze at 8 mph. The dew point is 55 degrees. Today will get progessively wetter, but it won’t last for long with the skies clearing out tomorrow around 1 pm. Probably not a good day for your outdoor activities unless you like playing in the mud and muck. 

Light rain this morning, heavy rain this afternoon into the evening and possibly a thunderstorm after noon. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. High of 67 degrees at 2pm. 12 degrees above normal. Maybe wet but not that cold. Maximum dew point of 59 at 1pm. Southeast wind 8 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies. The high last year was 53 degrees. The record high of 77 was set in 1946. 3.8 inches of snow fell back in 2011.

The sun will set at 5:51 pm with dusk around 6:20 pm, which is one minute and 21 seconds earlier than yesterday. At sunset, look for pouring rain and 66 degrees. The dew point will be 59 degrees. There will be a southeast breeze at 13 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 24 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 35 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain and possibly a thunderstorm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Low of 54 degrees at 6am. 13 degrees above normal. Southeast wind around 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible. In 2016, we had cloudy skies with some clearing in the early hours of the next day. It got down to 43 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1969.

Made some blueberry muffins from a mix I had bought for camping but it was pretty good. Only had one cup of coffee though as I’m a bit low on milk. I should run to the store and get some milk before it starts to rain too much. I usually just walk down to Stewarts which is around the corner. They have good milk prices and good milk. A lot of the local dairies produce the raw milk that is turned into Stewarts products.

Did some cleaning this morning and worked on some more maps and going through the photos from vacation. There is a lot more to check out, but I am getting there. I will probably upload a lot more photos this afternoon or evening. Depends somewhat on the weather. I don’t have any new photos from this weekend, so just more vacation photos. I took so many so it will take a while get through all of them.

Just mostly the usual. I really needed today to decompress from the road trip and continue to clean and put things away. I vacuumed the carpets, cleaned the kitchen counters, swept, reorganized the clothes a bit. I want to wash the kitchen floors shortly (a lot of mud got tracked in when unpacking the camping gear), the get the recycables out, wash more of the bathroom today.

I have go shopping. Lately I’ve been shopping at lot at Walmart but I feel like Shoprite or Hannaford is more economical. As werid as that sounds. Hannaford lately has had great prices on dry and canned goods. But the thing Iike about Walmart is their packaged meats and cheeses for sandwitches, while lower quality, do last a lot longer. I find when I get meat from the deli, it’s often getting moldy or dried out by the end of the work week for my Friday sandwitch. Biting into a moldy sandwitch is not how you want to do your Friday. Never had that problem with the Walmart stuff with more of the preservatives. As my inspection sticker expires Tuesday and I don’t want to drive until I get it serviced and inspected, I want to have everything I need for the week. I really don’t want to damage things further with that rattling shock aborber. It’s fine I almost never drive on the weekdays anywhere, and if I’m stuck in town next weekend that’s fine too. I need a break from my travels. If the weather is nice next weekend, I might walk out to Five Rivers Environmental Education Center. Always a nice walk and you see so much more when you don’t drive.

Tonight is Sunday dinner at the folks house. First time since Mom is back home from her sugerary. It will be good to see her, especially because that rehabilitation center she was at was a long haul, and I was gone last week. I am thinking of baking cookies. I will get them at the store.

Decided I am not going to have to take money out of savings to cover vacation. At least for now. It will all depend on what the November bills all come out to be. Hopefully the inspection and routine maintaince will be just routine and the noise I hear is just the loose shock absorber. I am hoping for a Good Black Friday sale so I can buy a 512 gigabyte SSD drive for my laptop, which will give me needed space with all the video I do and make it boot up and run applications much faster. Doesn’t look like it will be that difficult to install. I wanted to get an SSD drive when I bought the laptop, but all the models that I saw with SSD drives were either really overpriced or had shitty low-resolution screens which would suck with the map making I do.

I think Veterans Day this year is on a Friday so it will be a long weekend. Not sure where I will go, I have to consider my options more. Maybe the Western Catskills or the North Country. But only if the weather is nice. I don’t want to spend any more cold, wet days in the wilderness this year.

As previously noted, next Sunday is when Daylight Savings Time Ends when the sun will be setting at 4:42 pm with dusk at 5:12 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2016, we had mostly cloudy skies and temperatures between 57 and 32 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 52 degrees. We hit a record high of 75 back in 1994.