October 5, 2020 Night
Good evening! Mostly cloudy and 54 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. The dew point is 50 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 5 am.
Remarkably warm for second week of August. ♨ I sat out back for a while after my evening walk 🚶🏻 and it was quite pleasant. A fairly busy day at work but I did get down to Hannaford 🏪 for the essentials. Tomorrow it’s back downtown for work.
Tonight will have patchy fog after midnight. Otherwise, mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 47 degrees at 3am. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 27th. Calm wind. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 41 degrees. The record low of 24 occurred back in 1965.
Tonight will have a Waining Gibbous 🌖 Moon with 84% illuminated. At 10 PM, the moon was in the east-northeast (79°) at an altitude of 15° from the horizon, some 249,997 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by April 13th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The New Moon 🌚 is on Wednesday, October 21. The darkest hour is at 12:44 am, followed by dawn at 6:30 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:58 am in the east (96°) and last for 2 minutes and 55 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 7 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:36 am with sun in the east-southeast (102°). Tonight will have 12 hours and 29 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 51 seconds over last night.
Tomorrow will have patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 70 degrees at 4pm. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 22nd. Maximum dew point of 53 at 10am. Light south wind increasing to 8 to 13 mph in the morning. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 65 degrees. The record high of 90 was set in 1900. There was a dusting of snow in 1954.❄
Going to be a really nice day tomorrow ☀ and in some ways I’m bummed out that I’ll be working downtown. I guess I could do the meeting remotely 📱 but it’s so much more productive to have the in person meeting and plus I’m planning on going to John Wolcott’s house later. 🏡
In four weeks on November 2 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (250°) at 4:46 pm (Standard Time),🌄 which is one hour, 42 minutes and 47 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly cloudy and temperatures between 50 and 35 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 53 and 35 degrees. The record high of 82 degrees was set back in 1950.
Looking ahead, Cyber Monday 🛍️ and Beaver Moon 🎑 is in 8 weeks, Repeal of Prohibition Day 🍺 is in 2 months, First Day of Winter ☃️ is in 11 weeks, 4:30 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 12 weeks, National Bird Day 🐧 is in 3 months, Winnie the Pooh Day 🍯 is in 15 weeks, Martin Luther King Day 🖤 is in 15 weeks, 5 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 16 weeks and February 🌧 is in 17 weeks.
