Up early, started my day with cranberry and banana oatmeal pancakes topped with a blend of frozen antioxidant fruits. Lots of coffee. Riding the bike to work one more day this week and I need to get in early as I have a project to do. Tomorrow starts December and it’s going to be a rainy one so no riding to work tomorrow.

Good morning! Where did November go? December is around the corner as is the 2024 year. Partly cloudy and 26 degrees at the Delmar, NY. ⛅ There is a south-southeast breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. Things will start to thaw out at around 9 am. 🌡️I’ll need my gloves 🧤 on the ride in.

It’s off to work to get that project done. 🚲 Pleasant morning for the bike ride but a bit gray. Figure I best enjoy it now before work moves to the suburbs, where I won’t be able to ride into, at least until there is light in the evening, as I can’t take the bike on the free shuttle bus. 🤷‍♂️

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 43 degrees at 1pm. Typical for today. South wind 6 to 10 mph. A year ago, we had light drizzle in the morning, which became light rain by afternoon. Kind of like tomorrow’s forecast though yesteryear was warmer. The high last year was 52 degrees. The record high of 67 was set in 1933. 7.1 inches of snow fell back in 1972.❄

Watched more Udemy videos last night 📺 learning more about machine learning 🤖 and coding, went for an evening walk. 🏃‍♀️ That bean soup and bread was good, as was the spaghetti squash. 🍲 I have more to enjoy tonight, or I can finish off the rice tonight, as we’re going out to lunch today at work.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:45 am with sun having an altitude of 25.8° from the due south horizon (-45.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 12.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:40 pm with the sun in the southwest (233°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (241°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:25 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 19 seconds with dusk around 4:54 pm, which is 23 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:31 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 41 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 10 mph. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 20 minutes of daytime, a decrease of one minute and 25 seconds over today.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 32 degrees at 5am. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 16th. South wind 6 to 8 mph. I’ll take it, saves on the heat. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 32 degrees. The record low of -5 occurred back in 1875.

Clouds and rain this weekend. 🌧️ Hey, it could be snow. Saturday, a slight chance of rain. Cloudy, with a high near 48. South wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Sunday, a chance of showers after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 44. Chance of precipitation is 30%. No ambitious plans for the weekend. Typical average high for the weekend is 43 degrees.

Looking ahead, there are 3 weeks until First Day of Winter ☃️ when the sun will be setting at 4:26 pm with dusk at 4:56 pm. On that day in 2022, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 34 and 16 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 37 degrees. We hit a record high of 62 back in 2018.