Good morning! Happy Halloween 🎃. Next Wednesday is Day After Election Day. 🛀 Honestly, though all that campaign literature doesn’t burn that well in my experience, although maybe if you pulped them up into logs  like the videos on the internet show it might work better. 🔥 We got more rain showers, breaks of sun, clouds, and 44 degrees in North Syracuse. 🌦 There is a southeast breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. It’s very rare that we have nice weather around these parts. Looking ahead to the next time of good weather, the skies will clear Sunday around 7 am.🌤

Today will have showers, mainly after 1pm.🌧 High of 60 degrees at 2pm. Six degrees above normal. South wind 9 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies. The high last year was 54 degrees. The record high of 73 was set in 1946. 0.1 inches of snow fell back in 1913.❄

The sun will set at 5:57 pm with dusk around 6:26 pm, which is one minute and 21 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and 58 degrees. The dew point will be 51 degrees. There will be a south-southwest breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 18 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 37 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have showers likely, mainly before midnight. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 47 degrees at 5am. 11 degrees above normal. West wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2017, we had mostly cloudy skies with some clearing in the early hours of the next day. It got down to 34 degrees. The record low of 22 occurred back in 1964.

There are 6 days,  11 hours and 2 minutes until the poll close on Election Day in New York. 🗳 Day by day it’s getting closer. All I can say is I will be glad once it’s over. I am already starting to carefully make my plans for once it’s over, the days and times of places where I will go and camp over the following week.🏕 In the very long range, based on the 8-14 day outlook, the weather doesn’t look real nice but maybe it won’t be a wash-out. I guess I can take gray days for my trip, as that’s been about the best we can do in recent months. Hopefully there will still be enough sun that with a little driving I’ll be able to keep things charged up.

After giving it a lot of though, I decided not to head down to Elk Country this year on my November road trip. I thought about getting a permit to camp at Hicks Run, 🦌 but I decided against it on grounds that it would be a much longer trip, and right the weather looks kind of marginal. plus I want to spend more nights at one place or another and less time driving, especially because now I don’t have to worry about topping off the starting battery.

As previously noted, next Wednesday is Day After Election Day 🛀 when the sun will be setting at 4:48 pm with dusk at 5:18 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2017, we had cloudy skies and temperatures between 43 and 33 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 51 degrees. We hit a record high of 75 back in 1938.