Good morning! A frigid Monday’s come back around again in Trump’s America. ❄ Four weeks to Cyber Monday 🛍️ and Beaver Moon 🌕. Snow showers and 32 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌨 Breezy, ️17 mph breeze from the west-northwest 🌬 with gusts up to 30 mph 💨💨💨. The current wind chill is 21. Things will start to thaw out at around 9 am. 🌡️

I decided it might be a wee bit too cold ❄ for my morning walk, 🚶🏻 so I’m thinking I might pass on that. I may go downtown to the office today 🏢 I’m a bit undecided on that but I’m definitely more productive when I’m not home with lots of distractions. Definitely a chilly start for November but that extra hour of sleep helps and that sleeping pill 💊 meant I slept soundly.

Today will have a slight chance of snow showers before 11am. Partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 38 degrees at 1pm. 15 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around December 8th. Windy, with a northwest wind 17 to 22 mph increasing to 23 to 28 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 49 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 50 degrees. The record high of 82 was set in 1950. 0.1 inches of snow fell back in 1911.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:40 am with sun having an altitude of 32.5° from the due south horizon (-38.4° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 9.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:07 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (243°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (250°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:48 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 5 seconds with dusk around 5:15 pm, which is one minute and 16 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:51 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 36 degrees. The wind chill around sunset will be 24. ☃️ Breezy, 24 mph breeze ⛅ from the west-northwest with gusts up to 44mph. Today will have 10 hours and 15 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 32 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will snow showers likely before 3am, then a chance of rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 31 degrees at 6am. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 17th. West wind 13 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 30 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1980.

Awesome weekend on tap, with temperatures running 14 degrees above normal. 😎 Saturday, sunny, with a high near 65. Maximum dew point of 50 at 11am. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 65. Maximum dew point of 52 at 12pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 51 degrees.

Going to be a pretty nice weekend ☀ but possibly quite muddy after all the snow 🌨. I am hoping to get out of town this weekend but things could change between now and Friday.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Cyber Monday 🛍️ when the sun will be setting at 4:23 pm with dusk at 4:54 pm. On that day in 2019, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 33 and 19 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 42 degrees. We hit a record high of 67 back in 1933.