Good morning! Happy Sunday. Next Sunday the Daylight Savings Time Bites the Dust 🌇. Yeap, it will be dark an hour earlier come next Sunday. I guess I can’t complain, it means I can sleep in an additional hour. Light drizzle and 38 degrees in North Syracuse. ☔ There is a west-southwest breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. 0.29 inches of rain is expected before it ends Tuesday around 7 am. See eventually the rain will come to an end, even in Trump’s America.🌧

Today will have showers likely with patchy drizzle before 10am, then showers likely, mainly between 10am and noon. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, cloudy , with a high of 44 degrees at 4pm. 11 degrees below normal. West wind 7 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies with more clouds in the afternoon. The high last year was 67 degrees. The record high of 78 was set in 1971. 2 inches of snow fell back in 1952.❄

The sun will set at 6:01 pm with dusk around 6:30 pm, which is one minute and 24 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain ☁ and 43 degrees. There will be a south-southwest breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 25 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 39 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly between 10pm and 4am, then rain likely after 4am. Cloudy ☔ , with a low of 39 degrees at 6am. Three degrees above normal. South wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2017, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 59 degrees. The record low of 19 occurred back in 1969.

There are 9 days, 11 hours and 8 minutes until the poll close on Election Day in New York. 🗳 I filled out my absentee ballot and plan to drop it off later on today. To keep things interesting, I voted for a libertarian, two green party candidates, two working family party candidates, two conservative party candidates, a reform party candidate, a independence party candidate, and a women equality party candidate. I enjoy empowering obscure despots, it’s the New York way.

I did end up voting for Larry Sharpe for Governor, mainly because I was so disappointed with Marc Molinaro after the Gubernatorial debate, 🐘 and honestly I could not bring myself to vote for a former RACC client for governor. I’m sure the other guy who I’ve never voted for will win the governorship easily.🤡 Honestly, I don’t take politics all that seriously these days. Most things in government are done and decided by administrative bureaucrats, not the comedians that entertain people on the screen. Living in deep blue country in suburban Albany County, it’s not like my vote makes a whole big deal.📬

There’s been a lot of talk about the news lately. But I don’t really care. 🤷‍ My feeling is that most of the news stories are blown out of proportion to sell laundry soap and crappy Korean cars. I don’t follow the news carefully, except for what I need to be up on for work.📰 Everything else to me is just noise. I’m more interested in conservation, protecting our natural resources, and history then anything that a TV anchor will scream about for many hours with fancy colorful pictures. 📺 I really have very little opinion on the issues of the day, although in recent years I think I’ve started to become more conservative, but I find it hard to believe much of the non-sense and bloviating of President Trump.🤔

In 1956, Elvis Presley receives a polio vaccination on national TV. 💉 This single event is credited with raising immunization levels in the United States from 0.6% to over 80% in just six months. I still need to get my flu shot. I really should do that sooner then later, so I don’t get sick. Their is a pharmacy down the road from my office, maybe if the rain lets up I’ll get my flu shot and drop my absentee ballot off at the same time. 💡Many people don’t believe in science, but I sure do, even if I reject modernity with it’s bright colors flashing on the television screen. 🔬 Science can educate the pros and cons of any action, although it can’t tell us if something is right or wrong.

As previously noted, next Sunday is Daylight Savings Time Ends 🌇 when the sun will be setting at 4:51 pm with dusk at 5:21 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2017, we had partly cloudy skies and temperatures between 50 and 33 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 53 degrees. We hit a record high of 76 back in 1994.

And two weeks from now will be my second or third day on my road trip. 🏕Hopefully it won’t be as cold and wet as this weekend. Looking forward to having some good meals not from a can, 🥫doing some baking and cooking over the camp stove. 🍕 Even pizza tastes better cooked out at camp, at least in my opinion.