Good morning! Daylight Savings Time Came to An End 🕒. I hope you remembered to set your clock back an hour, otherwise your quite early to church ⛪ and everything else you do on Sunday. There was a ton of people out hiking at the Green Lakes Bird Sanctuary by the time I left. Next Sunday is Veterans Day (Sunday) 🇺🇸. Partly cloudy and 44 degrees in Fayetteville. ⛅ Calm wind. Temperatures will drop below freezing next Saturday around 10 pm. ☃️

Today will be partly sunny 🌞 , with a high of 48 degrees at 1pm. At least maybe later, assuming there is such a thing of sunshine. I saw sun for two minutes this morning, and then it got dark. While maybe sunny, a bit cool, roughly four degrees below normal. Calm wind becoming east around 6 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies. The high last year was 50 degrees. The record high of 76 was set in 1994. There was a dusting of snow in 2006.❄ I left the batteries connected today, so I can top off my starting battery, assuming we get sun later on.🔋

The sun will set at 4:51 pm with dusk around 5:21 pm, which is one minute and 17 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies ⛅ and 46 degrees. There will be a east breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 8 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 37 seconds over yesterday. Those nights are getting long in Trump’s America. Just like his presidency, especially as the mid-terms get underway come Tuesday. It looks like the Democrats will take the house, putting a brake on his administration, although the Senate will be in Republican hands. Although I guess it depends on who votes after all.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy ☁, with a low of 39 degrees at 12am. Four degrees above normal. Southeast wind 6 to 11 mph. In 2017, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 38 degrees. The record low of 17 occurred back in 1951.

Nice morning for a hike at Green Lakes State Park. 🍂Leaves are all gone or faded at this point, with some exceptions but so be it. I just wish there was more sun, but that’s pretty rare this year. Definitely into the November part of the year now.

There are 2 days, 8 hours and 14 minutes until the poll close on Election Day in New York. 🗳 It’s almost over. I’ve been thinking more about my trip, debating if I should leave on Thursday, Friday, or Saturday. A lot depends on the weather, although leaving Thursday wouldn’t give a lot of time to get back, by the time I get home on Wednesday evening. 🏡 I also have to take off the second half of next week, but i am not concerned about getting that off.

The long-range forecast for next week, looks pretty good but the weekend into next Monday might be questionable. 😎 Ideally I would like two nights at Stoney Pond State Forest, so I have time to visit Chittenango Falls one day — then I want a very nice and sunny day for visiting Chimney Bluffs State Park ⛰ and Montezuma 🐦🕊 before heading down to the Finger Lakes National Forest. Should be great for camping, assuming it’s not too wet and rainy. 🏕

As previously noted, next Sunday is Veterans Day (Sunday) 🇺🇸 when the sun will be setting at 4:43 pm with dusk at 5:13 pm. On that day in 2017, we had mostly sunny skies and temperatures between 33 and 18 degrees. 🌞  Typically, the high temperature is 50 degrees. We hit a record high of 70 back in 2002.