Good morning! What day is it? Hump Day, of course. 🐪 I wonder if Homesteady has made any more camel milking videos. Camels apparently have a very fast let down and milk out much quicker than cows do. They also are good for people who are allergic to milk. 🥛 I’m actually surprised you don’t see more camel dairies out there, you’d think there the kind of non commodity agriculture where there might actually be money to be made. Five weeks to Average High is 55 🍂. Much colder weather will be upon us soon. Doesn’t take all that long come autumn for temperatures to get cold fast. Cloudy and gray ☁️ and 54 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a west-northwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 47 degrees.

Definitely a dark and gray morning. ☕ I had enough cold coffee left over from yesterday but I ended up skipping my morning walk as I didn’t sleep well last night 💤 and I just wasn’t moving that quickly. Pancakes 🥞 with the apple butter mom made for breakfast this morning. I had pasta last night around 9 pm and that left me with a sick stomach 🤮 come the early hours of the morning.

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 73 degrees at 3pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 15th. Maximum dew point of 55 at 2pm. Northwest wind 6 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. It was sticky. The high last year was 86 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1895.

I have a busy day on tap for work today. 💼 I have edits to a paper I need to finalize today, which turned out to be a lot more number 🔢 crunching than expected. I also want to find some time to start getting packed for camping as I have four o’clock Zoom Meeting 📹 and they always tend to run late and I also want time to run to the store 🏬 after work.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:48 pm with sun having an altitude of 47.1° from the due south horizon (-23.7° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 5.6 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:15 pm with the sun in the west (264°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (270°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 6:52 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 53 seconds with dusk around 7:18 pm, which is one minute and 47 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the south (191°) at an altitude of 23° from the horizon, 232,052 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 7:53 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 69 degrees. The dew point will be 55 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 14 mph. Today will have 12 hours and 5 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 52 degrees at 6am. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 16th. Maximum dew point of 55 at 6pm. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light west after midnight. In 2019, we had rain in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 56 degrees. The record low of 27 occurred back in 1963.

A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, sunny, with a high near 76. Maximum dew point of 59 at 5pm. Sunday, a chance of showers after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 77. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Maximum dew point of 62 at 1pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 68 degrees.

I am getting ready to head up north come Thursday morning before work. 🗻 It will be an early morning trip but traffic should be light at that hour. I will spend the day working from the Spectulator Library and Town Park, and then set up camp for three days. ⛺ Sunset is early this time of year and the mornings are chilly but the heater is good and warm. ♨

Looking ahead, there are 5 weeks until Average High is 55 🍂 when the sun will be setting at 5:53 pm with dusk at 6:22 pm. On that day in 2019, we had mostly cloudy and temperatures between 60 and 45 degrees. We hit a record high of 78 back in 1971.

Upcoming Sunrises:

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7:15 am sunrise – Monday, October 19
7:30 am sunrise – Saturday, October 31
Standard Time Begins – Sunrise on Sunday, November 1 is at 6:30 am
6:45 am sunrise – Thursday, November 12
7:00 am sunrise – Wednesday, November 25
7:15 am sunrise – Thursday, December 10
Latest Sunrise (Standard Time) – Sunday, January 3 at 7:25 am
7:15 am sunrise – Monday, January 25
7:00 am sunrise – Monday, February 8