Good morning! Happy Saturday. Finally the Autumn Vacation! Two weeks to Northern Zone Regular Season 🦌. Sunny and 35 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 Calm wind.

Almost finished packing. 🛄 A few more things to do after I finish my coffee ☕ and take a shower. 🚿 I can question 🙋 my final route – why did not I choose the Adirondacks or Vermont but ultimately the Allegheny wilds and Pennsylvania and Cattaraugus became what it is. ✨ I can hold onto a glimmer of hope for West Virginia but I know it’s quite unlikely. Pennsylvania and Western NY 🗽 are quite nice in autumn. More farms, rolling country, rednecks 🚜 and folks having trash bonfires with lots of black smoke 🔥 out that way 😂. I also like seeing land that works, 👷 that feeds cows 🐮, provides timber 🌲, and coal.

I can question my decision but it should still be a nice week. ⛺ I might still do an Adirondack trip come November. I like the Adirondacks but sometimes I get bored with them and it’s not as far removed from Albany – not so cultural different. The Alleghenies have a much different feel for sure. 🗻 It’s good to get as far away from Albany as possible. I got my guns 🔫, knife 🔪and my fishing gear 🎣 for when I’m back in Western NY mid next week.

Haven’t decided when I’ll be back. 🏡 Maybe Sunday, maybe Monday Columbus Day. 🍁 Depends on the weather and how I’m feeling at that point.

Today will have areas of frost before 9am. Otherwise, sunny 🌞, with a high of 60 degrees at 3pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 15th. Light and variable wind. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 61 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 1941.

Today I need to get mantles for the lantern 🏮, firewood and paper muffin baking cups. Then gas up one more time before Pennsylvania. ⛽ Then do US 6 and take in as many parks as possible ⛲.

The sun will set at 6:30 pm with dusk around 6:58 pm, which is one minute and 44 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 57 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 11 hours and 33 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have increasing clouds ☁, with a low of 42 degrees at 12am. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 8th. South wind 3 to 7 mph. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 47 degrees. The record low of 24 occurred back in 1965.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Northern Zone Regular Season 🦌 when the sun will be setting at 6:07 pm with dusk at 6:36 pm. On that day in 2018, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 60 and 29 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 59 degrees. We hit a record high of 79 back in 1963.