Good evening! Partly cloudy and 68 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌃 There is a west-northwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 67 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 4 am. Surprisingly muggy for what is a relatively mild night but truth be told the humidity is not expected to last.

I ended up working late into the evening after a long meeting downtown. 💼 I haven’t really been downtown since the pandemic and certainly not in the office 🏢 since then so it was kind of odd to see all those people on the street wearing masks 😷 to say nothing of the socially distant meeting around the big conference table with only a few participants, spread out six feet from each other. Parking 🅿 my big truck in the lot was a bitch, I’ll probably seriously consider taking the bus 🚍 next time downtown. The last time I rode the bus it seemed like the buses were very clean and empty but maybe things have changed now that backdoor boarding is no more.

I also went to Walmart to pick up more supplies and once again forgot laundry soap. 👚 At some point I’ll get down to the store and then the laundromat and clean my clothes. I actually find I need more shirts now that I have so many Zoom Meetings lately and have to look nicer. 👨🏻‍💼🧟‍♂️My evening walk was nice and pretty quiet.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy ☁️, with a low of 59 degrees at 6am. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around August 26th. Maximum dew point of 67 at 10pm. North wind around 6 mph. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It became sticky as the night progressed. It got down to 66 degrees. The record low of 36 occurred back in 1917.

Tonight will have a Last Quarter 🌗 Moon with 42% illuminated. The moon will rise at 11:50 pm. The Harvest 🌽 Moon is on Friday, September 25. The darkest hour is at 12:53 am, followed by dawn at 6:03 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:31 am in the east (83°) and last for 2 minutes and 55 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 3 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:09 am with sun in the east (89°). Tonight will have 11 hours and 18 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 50 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 70 degrees at 4pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 21st. Maximum dew point of 56 at 6am. North wind around 9 mph. Beautiful Friday ahead. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It became somewhat humid as the day progressed. The high last year was 87 degrees. The record high of 98 was set in 1931.

I have what appears to be another lengthy Zoom meeting on Friday, 📽️ which once again I’ll do from the park under that tree. It should be a nice place to do the meeting and the tree makes for a good background, the internet is fast 💻 and it’s quiet. Plus if I get bored I can watch the traffic in the distance. 🚙 🚗🚚🚌

In four weeks on October 8 the sun will be setting in the west (262°) at 6:24 pm,🌄 which is 49 minutes and 21 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 65 and 45 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 63 and 42 degrees. The record high of 80 degrees was set back in 2017.

Looking ahead, October 🎃 and Harvest Moon 🌕 is in 3 weeks, Average High is 60 🍂 is in 5 weeks, Average High is 50 🍂 is in 2 months, Thanksgiving 🦃 is in 11 weeks, 7:15 AM Sunrise ⌛️ is in 3 months, Christmas Eve 🎅 is in 15 weeks, New Years Eve 🎆 is in 16 weeks, Coldest Week of the Year 🌬 is in 18 weeks, Wolf Moon 🌕 is in 20 weeks, Clean Your Computer Day 🧹 is in 5 months, Don’t Cry over Spilled Milk Day 🥛 is in 22 weeks and National Drink Wine Day 🍷 is in 23 weeks.