The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily barred New York from enforcing strict attendance limits on places of worship in areas designated coronavirus hot spots, in a decision released late Wednesday.
The court ruled that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's executive order violated the First Amendment's "free exercise" clause, and actively discriminated against religious institutions.
"The restrictions at issue here, by effectively barring many from attending religious services, strike at the very heart of the First Amendment's guarantee of religious liberty," the unsigned majority decision read.
These are trying times for believers in QAnon, the baseless conspiracy theory that falsely claims the existence of a satanic pedophile cult run by top Democrats. For years, they had been assured that Mr. Trump would win re-election in a landslide and spend his second term vanquishing the deep state and bringing the cabal’s leaders to justice. Q, the pseudonymous message board user whose cryptic posts have fueled the movement for more than three years, told them to “trust the plan.”
Good afternoon! Happy Thanksgiving. 🦃 Hopefully you’re not one sick 🤮 turkey with COVID-19 and are enjoying your day.Rain and 53 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a south breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 49 degrees. There are 9 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at Sunday around 3 am. ☃️
I am pretty good although I slept in 😴 because I woke early and ended up listening to the news before falling back asleep again. 📻 Then I got working on a bunch of different projects on my computer. I am trying to stay off the internet – the amount of doom scrolling 📜 one can do is a terrible waste of time.
Thanksgiving Day 🦃 will have a chance of showers, mainly before 4pm. Cloudy 🌦, with a high of 54 degrees at 1pm. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 1st. Maximum dew point of 50 at 1pm. South wind 5 to 7 mph becoming calm. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning, which became light rain by afternoon. The high last year was 58 degrees. The record high of 67 was set in 1979. 9.6 inches of snow fell back in 2014.❄
As I noted yesterday heading out to the parents house for a socially distant Thanksgiving around tray tables. 👨👧👧↔️🧔🏻🍗🍽️ It will be fun to do before everything really shuts down as the pandemic really climbs the next few weeks. I’m already planning to work primarily from home this winter 🏡💻, having figured out how to do it with my phone as a hot spot.
Solar noon 🌞 was at 11:44 am with sun having an altitude of 26.3° from the due south horizon (-44.5° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 12.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:42 pm with the sun in the southwest (234°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (242°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:26 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 18 seconds with dusk around 4:56 pm, which is 31 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌝 Moon in the east-southeast (103°) at an altitude of 23° from the horizon, 252,133 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:32 pm. At sunset, look for rain showers 🌧 and temperatures around 54 degrees. The dew point will be 49 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 9 hours and 24 minutes of daytime, a decrease of one minute and 39 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will have patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy , with a low of 42 degrees at 6am. 🌫 14 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 9th. Calm wind. In 2019, we had light rain in the evening, which became light snow by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 31 degrees. The record low of 8 occurred back in 1957.
I have the groceries I need and will be heading up to the Adirondacks tomorrow for a few days. ⛺ I do think I want to stop for hot coca ☕ on the way up there and maybe a few other supplies but I want to get up there pretty early as the sun sets early 🌇 this time of year. Do some short hiking from camp, listen to a lot of podcasts and retire to bed 🛏 fairly early. I could hot tent but I don’t think it neccesary for this weekend.
A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, a slight chance of showers before 10am. Partly sunny, with a high near 47. West wind 5 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Sunday, sunny, with a high near 48. Typical average high for the weekend is 43 degrees.
As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until 7:15 AM Sunrise ⌛️ when the sun will be setting at 4:22 pm with dusk at 4:53 pm. On that day in 2019, we had rain showers, mostly cloudy, mild and temperatures between 52 and 35 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 38 degrees. We hit a record high of 64 back in 1966.
