Good morning! Happy Thursday. Five weeks to Thanksgiving 🦃. Hard to believe it’s coming so quickly but only a week plus until November. Partly cloudy and 56 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ There is a north-northwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 53 degrees.

I got up a bit earlier today 😴 but it still is a challenge with the late sunrise 🌅 and the dark and fairly gray skies this morning. The coffee ☕ and eggs 🍳 did help a bit though but I’m still struggling to get going.

Today will have a slight chance of showers after 2pm. Patchy fog between 8am and 10am. Otherwise, mostly sunny 🌦, with a high of 66 degrees at 2pm. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 1st. Maximum dew point of 54 at 2pm. North wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 59 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 1979. There was a dusting of snow in 2005.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:40 pm with sun having an altitude of 36.1° from the due south horizon (-34.7° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 8.2 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:24 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (249°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (255°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 6:03 pm after setting for 3 minutes with dusk around 6:30 pm, which is one minute and 31 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the south (183°) at an altitude of 24° from the horizon, 235,839 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 7:05 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 62 degrees. The dew point will be 53 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Tomorrow will have 10 hours and 41 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 42 seconds over today.

Tonight will have patchy drizzle after 2am. Patchy fog between 2am and 4am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 57 degrees at 1am. 20 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 2nd. Maximum dew point of 56 at 6am. Light and variable wind. In 2019, we had rain in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 38 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1969.

Today in 1897, using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13 1/2 hours before burning out).

A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, a slight chance of showers before 11am. Partly sunny, with a high near 59. Southwest wind 6 to 8 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 51. Typical average high for the weekend is 57 degrees.

Looking ahead, there are 5 weeks until Thanksgiving 🦃 when the sun will be setting at 4:24 pm with dusk at 4:56 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2019, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 58 and 34 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 44 degrees. We hit a record high of 67 back in 1979.