Good morning! Yeah, it’s Friday! Three weeks to Average Night Below Freezing 🌌. Mostly cloudy and 60 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 58 degrees. The skies will clear around 1 pm.

I was hoping to get out for my morning walk, 🚶 but with work things and the gray morning and my inability to get going this morning, I ended up skipping the morning in favor of having pancakes for breakfast. 🥞☕ I can’t wait until the time change ⏰ as it will make mornings so much easier.

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 70 degrees at 2pm. 13 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 22nd. Maximum dew point of 60 at 10am. South wind 6 to 13 mph. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 64 degrees. The record high of 81 was set in 1947. 0.5 inches of snow fell back in 2002.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:40 pm with sun having an altitude of 35.8° from the due south horizon (-35° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 8.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. Shadows are getting long as winter comes even if the mercury in the thermometers are lying. 🤥 The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:22 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (248°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (255°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 6:01 pm after setting for 3 minutes with dusk around 6:29 pm, which is one minute and 29 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the south-southeast (169°) at an altitude of 24° from the horizon, 238,758 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 7:03 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 67 degrees. The dew point will be 59 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 11 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 41 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 42 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 57 degrees at 2am. 20 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 2nd. Maximum dew point of 59 at 6pm. South wind around 10 mph. In 2019, we had clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 35 degrees. The record low of 16 occurred back in 1969.

Today in 1973, President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations. 📼 Of course there was that 18 minute gap.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of showers between 9am and 2pm. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 60 degrees at 11am. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 16th. Maximum dew point of 56 at 6am. South wind 8 to 11 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 68 degrees. The record high of 75 was set in 2017. There was a dusting of snow in 1962.❄

Yeah, even in Albany, it looks like tomorrow’s weather won’t be great.🌧 It’s too bad as the past two days have been quite nice with the sun 😎 but I’ve been swamped with work. 💼 But I’ve been enjoying working out back and at the library in my truck.

Looking ahead to Sunday, sunny, with a high near 50.🌞 Northeast wind around 6 mph. Cool thought. Typical average high for the weekend is 57 degrees. That sounds about perfect for getting outside, with a long sleeved shirt. Next weekend for Halloween Weekend looks really nice, 🎃 but things could definitely change.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Average Night Below Freezing 🌌 when the sun will be setting at 4:34 pm with dusk at 5:04 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2019, we had cold, mostly sunny and temperatures between 26 and 14 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 49 degrees. We hit a record high of 69 back in 1964.