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Today’s Almanac for Sunday October 31
Today’s Almanac
Night before dawn is 6 hours and 59 minutes,
Dawn starts at 6:59 am and runs for 29 minutes,
Sunrise is at 7:28 am which is 4 hours and 31 minutes before noon,
High noon, the transit of the sun, is at 12:39 pm,
From twelve noon to the sunset at 5:49 pm is 5 hours and 49 minutes,
Dusk lasts for 30 minutes concluding at 6:18 pm,
Leaving 5 hours and 41 minutes until midnight.
NPR
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Weather Update – October 31, 2021
After we get through today, much nicer weather is on tap. 😎
Just another kind of dreary weekend, what can you do about it? But I am hoping for better weather next week on vacation, at least not super rainy. 😎 Days next week are expected to be fairly cool, although it’s November but Thursday night is the only real freezing day on tap. Don’t set your clocks back this week, but the following Sunday will be the big time shift.
Monday does look good for going out hiking — I took off that day — but who know how many leaves will still be on the trees. 🚶♀️ 🍂 And many other things I need to get done on that day.
| Today. Feels like … October 22nd. |
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A chance of rain before noon, then a chance of showers, mainly between noon and 4pm. Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy. Light southwest wind becoming west 10 to 15 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
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59 degrees | 5:49 sunset |
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| Tonight. Feels like … October 4th. |
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Mostly cloudy. West wind 7 to 13 mph.
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45 degrees | 7:29 sunrise |
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| Monday. Feels like … November 1st. |
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Mostly sunny. West wind 13 to 15 mph.
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55 degrees | 5:48 sunset |
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| Monday Night. Feels like … October 31st. |
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Partly cloudy. Southwest wind 6 to 8 mph.
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36 degrees | 7:30 sunrise |
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| Tuesday. Feels like … November 8th. |
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A slight chance of showers after 2pm. Partly sunny. West wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
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52 degrees | 5:46 sunset |
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| Tuesday Night. Feels like … November 10th. |
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A slight chance of showers before 2am. Mostly cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
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33 degrees | 7:32 sunrise |
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| Wednesday. Feels like … November 16th. |
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Mostly sunny.
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49 degrees | 5:45 sunset |
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| Wednesday Night. Feels like … November 20th. |
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Partly cloudy.
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30 degrees | 7:33 sunrise |
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| Thursday. Feels like … November 18th. |
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Partly sunny.
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48 degrees | 5:44 sunset |
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| Thursday Night. Feels like … November 17th. |
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Mostly cloudy.
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31 degrees | 7:34 sunrise |
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| Friday. Feels like … November 16th. |
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A chance of showers. Mostly sunny. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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49 degrees | 5:43 sunset |
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| Friday Night. Feels like … November 10th. |
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A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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33 degrees | 7:36 sunrise |
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| Saturday. Feels like … November 18th. |
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A chance of showers. Partly sunny. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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48 degrees | 5:42 sunset |
Good Morning – October 31, 2021
Good morning! Happy Halloween 🎃 !
Rain and 51 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ Calm wind. The dew point is 51 degrees. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Thursday around 4 am. ☃️ That’s big news for this year, as it’s been such a relatively warm October with no freezing temperatures in Albany. Even in the higher elevations, the frosts have been relatively minor, although the shorter days and cooler weather caused the leaves to drop. 🍂
The leaves are busy dropping today, 🍂 The rain and the breeze has done a number on the leaves, but that’s to be expected with November right around the corner. Summer couldn’t last forever, but hopefully it will be at least a few more weeks before everything is caked with salt and snow. ❄️ What can I say, winter is coming and isn’t much I can do about. 🏕 That said, I’m hoping for a nice trip next week, and then maybe another one around Thanksgiving to the Adirondacks, assuming their isn’t a ton of snow up north then.
Yesterday was a stay at home day. 🏘 I spent the day looking at some Census statistics and trying to fix some of the issues I was having parsing the American Community Survey summary file I had — apparently I wasn’t using the right index to load the code. Then I spent some time studying how to use the graphical modeler in QGIS, and later today I’ve been playing with map generation in R. I probably could have gone for my evening walk yesterday, 🌧 but it was kind of a cold and rainy evening.
I might go to the library this afternoon 📚 to return some books and get some more, I think my books are due back on Thursday but I really could use some new ones to read. I might go hiking before going out to my parents for Sunday dinner,but it all depends on how rainy and cold it is later — hardly a nice day. I didn’t make a mistake to stay home this weekend.