Good morning! Happy Saturday. Finally the first day of Early Voting! Five weeks to Small Business Saturday 🛍️. But doesn’t Walmart and Tractor Supply have better prices? I mean I always get propane at Tractor Supply. 💥 This morning is partly sunny and 45 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a northwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃.

Earlier this morning I was feeling a bit achy but I took some extra strength ibuprofen 💊 and I think this cold is getting better. When I’m up and about its not so bad it’s just laying in bed or standing around I can feel sick.

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 56 degrees at 2pm. Typical for today. North wind around 6 mph. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies. The high last year was 45 degrees. The record high of 78 was set in 1963. There was a dusting of snow in 1997.❄

I will swing by my Early Vote ❎ site today but the more I think about it, makes more sense to wait until Monday evening after work to avoid the crowds. Being a new thing, everybody in town will be rushing out to Early Vote today and tomorrow they’ll be a lot of people after church ⛪ I imagine.

Around 11:30 going to head up to Troy to canvas for David Bissember and then head out to Grafton Lakes to hike. 🍂 Should be a decent afternoon although I expect more clouds ☁ to be popping up by evening with a fairly early sunset 🌇.

The sun will set at 5:57 pm with dusk around 6:25 pm, which is one minute and 27 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 54 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 10 hours and 35 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 41 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain likely, mainly after 2am. Increasing clouds 🌧, with a low of 44 degrees at 4am. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 4th. Light and variable wind becoming southeast 5 to 7 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 37 degrees. The record low of 21 occurred back in 1950.

Back in 1970, Muhammad Ali faces off against Jerry Quarry in Atlanta, Georgia for the first time after Ali’s three-year hiatus from evading to be drafted in the Vietnam War.✊

Looking ahead, there are 5 weeks until Small Business Saturday 🛍️ when the sun will be setting at 4:23 pm with dusk at 4:54 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2018, we had mostly sunny, rain showers and temperatures between 45 and 18 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 42 degrees. We hit a record high of 67 back in 1933.