Good morning! Happy Last Sunset After 6:30 PM 🌆! Four weeks to November 🥧. Don’t forget we set the clocks back one hour at Daylight Savings Time ends November 1st. So it will be only 8 am that day but the mornings will be brighter. Partly sunny and 36 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. I kind of regret leaving my windows open later night ⬜ it’s kind of cold this morning. ❄

After having eggs 🥚 the past few days for breakfast, today it was pancakes 🥞 I blueberry sauce for a change. Still haven’t gotten butter or contact solution 🍶midday on Monday for a few supplies. 🛒

Today will have patchy fog before 9am. Patchy frost before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 61 degrees at 3pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 12th. Calm wind becoming southeast around 6 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 59 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 1891. 6.5 inches of snow fell back in 1987.❄

I decided to go up to Partridge Run this morning 🌲🍁🐦🐿️ although already starting to cloud 🌥 up for a nice most of the day walk to enjoy the leaves. Mostly just a road hike but I might do some trails too to complete the loop.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:45 pm with sun having an altitude of 42.8° from the due south horizon (-28° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 6.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:55 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (258°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (265°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 6:32 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 55 seconds with dusk around 6:59 pm, which is one minute and 44 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 7:33 pm. At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 58 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 11 hours and 34 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over yesterday.

After hiking the plan is to go to the parents house for Sunday dinner 🍲. Probably be too cold to eat outside but that’s fine. It should though be a nice day for hiking if the clouds 🌥 don’t push in too early.

Tonight will have a slight chance of showers after 1am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 45 degrees at 4am. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 2nd. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 34 degrees. The record low of 26 occurred back in 1965.

I soaked and scrubbed my socks 🧦 in preparation for washing them today. The come out a lot cleaner that way. I tossed a few of them in with the paper trash to burn 🔥 that had a lot of holes figuring they were just cotton but fished them out figuring I can still recycle ♻ them as they still have free cloth and shoe recycling 👢 and I’ll probably drop off my old boots and worn out clothes once I get new boots next week. My current boots have worn holes through their soles but otherwise are in decent condition.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until November 🥧 when the sun will be setting at 4:47 pm with dusk at 5:17 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2019, we had cloudy skies, rain showers and temperatures between 70 and 42 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 54 degrees. We hit a record high of 78 back in 1950.