October 31, 2020 Morning

Good morning! Happy Halloween πŸ¦‡ πŸŽƒ πŸ‘»! Last day of October and Daylight Savings Time πŸ•’, finally more sunshine β˜€ in the morning. Three weeks to Regular Deer Season in Southern Zone 🦌. Already started up north. Sunny and 22 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 Calm wind. Bitterly cold for October but warmer next week. Not so bad in my bedroom πŸ› though as the heat is on. There is a inch of snow on the ground. β˜ƒ ️Things will start to thaw out at around 10 am. 🌑️Buy still only 43 for a high in the city. Sixty next weekend though.

I had another rough night sleeping. πŸ’€ I keep waking up during the night and listening to podcasts well into the morning hours. I sleep so much better when the windows are open in my bedroom. πŸ› Except when that obnoxious touhee is by the window singing 🎢 his song at Five AM. 🐦

Today will have patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny 🌞, with a high of 43 degrees at 3pm. 11 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 27th. Calm wind becoming southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning, which became light rain by afternoon. It became sticky as the day progressed. The high last year was 75 degrees. The record high of 75 was set in 2019. 0.1 inches of snow fell back in 1913.❄

I have some work stuff to do this morning πŸ’»πŸ‘»πŸŽƒπŸ¦‡ and then I’ll go for a walk out to Five Rivers 🐦 later this afternoon. I can’t go too late though as the sun β˜€ will be setting late though.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:40 pm with sun having an altitude of 33.1Β° from the due south horizon (-37.7Β° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 9.2 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour πŸ… starts at 5:10 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (244Β°). πŸ“Έ The sunset is in the west-southwest (251Β°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:50 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 4 seconds with dusk around 6:18 pm, which is one minute and 19 seconds earlier than yesterday. πŸŒ‡ At dusk you’ll see the Waining Gibbous πŸŒ– Moon in the east-northeast (75Β°) at an altitude of 2Β° from the horizon, 251,983 miles away. πŸš€ The best time to look at the stars is after 6:53 pm. At sunset, look for clear skies πŸŒ„ and temperatures around 42 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 20 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 34 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have increasing clouds ☁, with a low of 29 degrees at 11pm. Six degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 24th. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph after midnight. Don’t forget to set your clock back one hour. πŸ•’ In 2019, we had light rain. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 42 degrees. The record low of 22 occurred back in 1964.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Regular Deer Season in Southern Zone 🦌 when the sun will be setting at 4:27 pm with dusk at 4:58 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2019, we had partly sunny, shallow fog and temperatures between 47 and 26 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 46 degrees. We hit a record high of 70 back in 1931.

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