Good morning! Happy Thursday. Next Thursday is October 🎃 and Harvest Moon 🌕. Shine on Harvest or maybe Hunter Moon. 🌽 👻 Partly cloudy and 59 degrees in Speculator, NY. ⛅ Calm wind. The dew point is 50 degrees. The skies will clear around 11 am.

Absolutely beautiful day to round out September, 🍂🍁 a nice drive up to the Adirondacks. I didn’t quite leave in time and hit commuter traffic – which is up a lot as schools reopen 🚸 and the pandemic winds down. 👾 I had to stop on the way up when my phone rang and had to take a call. 📞 I hadn’t paired the Bluetooth properly with my truck 🚚 since getting my new phone mid-summer. Not minding the remote work at all today, especially as everything so far I’ve been able to do right from my smartphone. 📱 Apparently this new phone works well in Wells, my last one did not.

Today will be partly 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 51 at 11am. Calm wind becoming west around 6 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 73 degrees. The record high of 90 was set in 2017.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:50 pm with sun having an altitude of 45.8° from the due south horizon (-24.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 5.8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:14 pm with the sun in the west (263°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (270°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 6:52 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 57 seconds with dusk around 7:19 pm, which is one minute and 49 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the south (176°) at an altitude of 22° from the horizon, 234,681 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 7:54 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 69 degrees. The dew point will be 49 degrees. There will be a west-southwest breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 12 hours and 3 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 57 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 48 degrees at 6am. Typical for tonight. Light west wind. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 50 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1963.

A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 71. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 9 mph in the morning. Maximum dew point of 56 at 11am. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 77. Maximum dew point of 59 at 6pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 68 degrees.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Average High is 60 🍂 when the sun will be setting at 6:13 pm with dusk at 6:42 pm. On that day in 2019, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 62 and 39 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 60 degrees. We hit a record high of 86 back in 1897.