Good morning! Happy November 🥧. Yeap, it’s the month of deer season, elections, and thanksgiving dinners. On that note, only three weeks to Turkey Day, aka Thanksgiving 🦃. I am thinking maybe I can get camping after that, like maybe on the East Branch of the Sacandaga River as long as the snow holds off. Light rain and drizzle, rough 46 degrees in North Syracuse. ☔ Calm wind.

Today will rain. ☔ Hope you brought your umbrella. Let’s get to the point. It’s going to be relatively mild, but still not nice. High of 48 degrees at 1pm. Six degrees below normal but near constant temperature for the day, actually warming through sunset. Calm wind becoming north around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 49 degrees. The record high of 78 was set in 1950. 3.9 inches of snow fell back in 1951.❄

The sun will set at 5:55 pm with dusk around 6:25 pm, which is one minute and 19 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain showers 🌧 and 47 degrees. There will be a northeast breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 15 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 36 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain. ☔ Low of 44 degrees at 8pm. Nine degrees above normal. East wind 5 to 7 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. In 2017, we had light rain in the evening, remaining overcast into the early morning. It got down to 48 degrees. The record low of 19 occurred back in 2002.

There are 5 days, 13 hours and 35 minutes until the poll close on Election Day in New York. 🗳 GOTV weekend starts well on Saturday,then it’s the election day, and like all that it just comes to an end. Then vacation. I can’t wait. If only for the good food that I can cook in the woods that doesn’t come out of a can and be cooked in a microwave. Or those long nights by the fire.🔥

I keep watching the 8-14 day outlook, and it’s been steadily been improving.🌪 Now it looks like seasonal weather with a normal chance of precipitation. I can take a day of rain, as long as the bulk of the days are bright and sunny and not too cold. Maybe it will prove to be a mistake to not get a camping permit at Hicks Run 🏕 but there is always that developed state campground about 10 miles away if I want to go down that way or I could just stop by the DCNR office during normal business hours. It looks like their office is located in Emporium, down PA 155 from Port Allegany. It would be also neat to see the Glass Block display now that it’s completely done. I could drive either down from Olean or head back over from the Allegheny National Forest.

But first I plan to spend several days in New York, specifically focusing on state forests in Allegany and maybe Cattaragus County. I might do a night or two in the Allegheny National Forest 🌲but probably not that many days, as I lack as Pennsylvania hunting license and I’m not going to pay a bunch of money for just a couple of days.🔫 Plus I want to see more of Allegany County — I’ve not spent much time there, instead spending the bulk of my time in Cattaragus County. I look forward to seeing the new arched railroad bridge at Letchworth State Park. It looks beautiful. And so much more. I haven’t decided exactly which state forests I will camp at but I have been to some of the sites in the past, and others I have maps for them. I just want sites with vehicle access, a decent amount of sunshine for the solar panel, fairly protected from wind, and with cellphone service for entertainment purposes during the long nights.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Thanksgiving 🦃 when the sun will be setting at 4:34 pm with dusk at 5:05 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2017, we had rain, cloudy skies and temperatures between 46 and 34 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 45 degrees. We hit a record high of 70 back in 1931.