Good evening! Cloudy and 34 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south-southeast breeze at 11 mph. 🍃. There is a inch of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 10 pm. ☃️ Not a terrible evening for the day after Christmas.

I was over at John Wolcott house after work for a while 🔎 looking at old historical documents 📄 as I often do on Thursday nights 🌃. It wasn’t a bad evening, some of the articles about the Knickerbocker Arena were fascinating. So much corruption in Albany during the final years of the Corning administration into the Whalen era. And it was County Executive Jim Coyne who ultimately was the fall guy but he certainly wasn’t the only crook in Albany. 🏫

Getting ready for the camping trip tomorrow ⛺ although first I’m getting to bed early. 😴 Might as well get to bed early if I keep waking up so early. I’m hopeful that camping will improve my sleep. The nights are certainly dark and long this time of year in the woods – nearly fifteen hours darkness each night. I’ll probably retire to bed by eight or nine most nights at camp but I might read or listen to podcasts for a while. 🔊 Certainly the tent will be the warmest location, especially with the heater on that expected damp and rainy Sunday night. I’m just glad to be away from Albany for sure. I really miss the rural landscape. Sure, it’s not West Virginia but it’s still a big change from Albany or the parts of the Adirondacks I visit regularly.

Tonight will have a chance of rain or freezing rain before midnight, then a chance of rain showers between midnight and 3am, then a chance of freezing rain after 3am. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 32 degrees at 11pm. 15 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 16th. South wind 9 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2018, we had light snow in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 24 degrees. The record low of -18 occurred back in 1914.

Tonight will have Waxing Crescent Moon 🌙 a with 4% illuminated. The moon will rise at 8:39 am. The is on Wednesday night with mostly cloudy skies. The is on Wednesday night. The sun will rise at 7:24 am with the first light at 6:52 am, which is 21 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 14 hours and 56 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 21 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers, mainly before 3pm. Cloudy 🌦, with a high of 45 degrees at 2pm. 13 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 23rd. South wind 5 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 35 degrees. The record high of 60 was set in 1895. 15 inches of snow fell back in 1894.❄ Well before my time – 110 years earlier.

In four weeks on January 23 the sun will be setting at 4:56 pm,🌄 which is 28 minutes and 44 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had rain showers, partly cloudy and temperatures between 40 and 9 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 31 and 14 degrees. The record high of 64 degrees was set back in 1906.

Looking ahead, Static Electric Shock Day 🧼 is in 2 weeks, National Cheese Lovers Day 🧀 is in 4 weeks, 5:30 PM Dusk 🌆 is a month away, 5:30 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 8 weeks and Flower Moon 🌕 is in 19 weeks.