Good morning! Happy Average High is 65 🍂! Five weeks to Day After Election Day 🛀. Unless of course you Early Vote. ❎ I think I’ll take that option, it’s so convenient for me with the Early Vote site just down the road. Cloudy and 69 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a west breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 67 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around noontime.

Walked down to the express bus 🚍. First time in a while. Nice and cool on the bus. Going to rain later on, I’m glad I brought a rain coat ☔. It’s good, we’ve had a pretty good rain deficit lately although not as bad of a drought as West Virginia. I’m hoping it rains midday and clears out later so I can get propane and do more packing for my trip.

Pretty good traffic jam heading into the Empire Plaza. 🚐🚑🚓🚕🚗🚙🚚🚙🚗 But we are creeping along and I’m driving. I don’t really understand the appeal of electric cars. I can’t imagine they’re much different than fossil fuel burners on the climate. 🌎 An certainly they’ll still destroy our cities.

Today will have showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Cloudy,⚡☁💦 with a temperature rising to near 70 by 9am, then falling to around 61 during the remainder of the day. West wind 5 to 9 mph becoming north in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. It became somewhat humid as the day progressed. The high last year was 66 degrees. The record high of 85 was set in 1927. There was a dusting of snow in 1899.❄

The sun will set at 6:35 pm with dusk around 7:03 pm, which is one minute and 45 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain showers, damp, cloudy 🌧 and temperatures around 60 degrees. The dew point will be 53 degrees. There will be a north breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 11 hours and 42 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers before 7pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 43 degrees at 6am. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 5th. North wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2018, we had cloudy skies. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 50 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1945.

A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, patchy frost before 9am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 58. Sunday, a chance of showers after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 64. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 52 at 7pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 64 degrees. Doesn’t look quite as nice heading south but so be it.

Looking forward to getting out of town. 😁 I don’t think I’ll miss seeing Albany in the rear view mirror or nights in the Mountain Laurel. Going to be a full 🌕 moon by the end of vacation so if it’s clear out there may be many nice evenings. I won’t miss Albany one bit or complain about the quiet in the National Quiet Zone. 🔕

Looking ahead, there are 5 weeks until Day After Election Day 🛀 when the sun will be setting at 4:42 pm with dusk at 5:12 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2018, we had drizzle, showers, cloudy and temperatures between 54 and 44 degrees. I think I drove back that Election Day After via US 20. It was quite a day after Election Day. Typically, the high temperature is 52 degrees. We hit a record high of 73 back in 2015.