Good evening! Mostly clear and 46 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌌There is a west-northwest breeze at 8 mph. 🍃.

Honestly tonight would be a better night for the power to be out 🔌 for enjoying the stars ✨ but at least it’s back on and it’s nice evening. Heck of it is the power outage wouldn’t have been so bad if data service wasn’t out all last night and most of the day. 📶 I mean most of the things I do I do with my phone 📱 and I have my truck for solar power for charging the laptop. And if it was normal times and not a pandemic and I was working in the office, 🏢 the impact would have been even less.

Having nearly five gallons of salt water ice in the freezer for camping ❄ the frigerator remained ice cold 🍻 when I reached in for some milk 🥛 mid-day. I left the windows open last night to keep things extra cold in the apartment although this really isn’t a bad time of year for a power outage – not too cold that one has to worry about heat or two warm and having to worry about the ice melting and things spoiling in the freezer.

Tonight will have patchy frost after 4am. Otherwise, mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 35 degrees at 6am. Seven degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 31st. West wind 5 to 8 mph. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 43 degrees. The record low of 27 occurred back in 2001.

Tonight will have a Last Quarter 🌗 Moon with 58% illuminated. The moon will rise at 10:32 pm. The darkest hour is at 12:43 am, followed by dawn at 6:33 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:02 am in the east (98°) and last for 2 minutes and 55 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:39 am with sun in the east-southeast (104°). Tonight will have 12 hours and 38 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 51 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have patchy frost before 9am. Otherwise, sunny 🌞, with a high of 61 degrees at 4pm. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 12th. West wind 3 to 7 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 65 degrees. The record high of 83 was set in 1949. There was a dusting of snow in 2000.❄ Not ready to think about snow yet but it certainly can snow 🌨 in a week or two from now.

In four weeks on November 5 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (249°) at 4:42 pm (Standard Time),🌄 which is one hour, 41 minutes and 20 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 56 and 36 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 52 and 34 degrees. The record high of 75 degrees was set back in 1994.

Looking ahead, Thanksgiving 🦃 is in 7 weeks, 7:15 AM Sunrise ⌛️ is in 9 weeks, Christmas Eve 🎅 is in 11 weeks, New Years Eve 🎆 is in 12 weeks, Bubble Bath Day 🧼 is in 3 months, Coldest Week of the Year 🌬 is in 14 weeks, Wolf Moon 🌕 is in 16 weeks, Don’t Cry over Spilled Milk Day 🥛 is in 18 weeks and National Drink Wine Day 🍷 is in 19 weeks.