Good morning! Happy Columbus Day Weekend! ⛵ 🍂Next Saturday is Northern Zone Regular Season 🦌. Mostly sunny and 55 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞There is a south breeze at 11 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 45 degrees.

Nice morning, had pancakes 🥞 and coffee for breakfast. ☕ I want to take a shower 🚿 and head out shortly although I’ve yet to decide how far I want to go. Laying in bed 🛏 watching the birds 🐦 in the tree chirping this morning. Should be a nice day.

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 78 degrees at 4pm. 16 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around August 31st. Maximum dew point of 57 at 2pm. Breezy, with a south wind 11 to 16 mph increasing to 17 to 22 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 36 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 69 degrees. The record high of 89 was set in 1939. 0.8 inches of snow fell back in 1925.❄

It looks like today is going to be a really nice mid autumn day, 🍂 although I think already in the higher elevations the leaves are rapidly dropping. I might go for a hike in the back part of Thatcher Park 🏞. Lots of nature there, especially in the fields and woods 🐦.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:43 pm with sun having an altitude of 40.5° from the due south horizon (-30.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 7 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. Shadows are growing long this time of year. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:44 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (255°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (261°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 6:22 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 56 seconds with dusk around 6:49 pm, which is one minute and 41 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 7:23 pm. At sunset, look for thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 76 degrees. The dew point will be 57 degrees. Breezy, 16 mph breeze ⛅ from the southwest with gusts up to 26mph. Today will have 11 hours and 17 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 50 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight, then a slight chance of showers between midnight and 1am. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds. Areas of fog between 11pm and 1am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy 🌫️, with a low of 48 degrees at 6am. Seven degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 25th. Southwest wind 9 to 11 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2019, we had partly 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 22 occurred back in 1943.

As previously noted, next Saturday is Northern Zone Regular Season 🦌 when the sun will be setting at 6:09 pm with dusk at 6:37 pm. On that day in 2019, we had rain and temperatures between 52 and 46 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 59 degrees. We hit a record high of 85 back in 1947.