Good morning! Happy Election Day 2020 🗳️! I will probably vote after work, although I brought my absentee ballot with me in case I get stuck at work late and I’ll find a downtown polling place to drop it off at. Honestly, I’m pretty indifferent about this election with yesterday’s men running on the top of the ticket but I probably should vote before 9 pm tonight. 🤷🏻‍♂️ I just wish there was more people of my generation running for president, not geriatric throw backs to the era of the vacuum tube.

Thirteen weeks until Ground Hog Day. 🐻 Next Tuesday the Average High is 50. 󠠮 Partly cloudy and 36 degrees on the CDTA Route 18 heading down into the city. ⛅ Tuesday is meeting day downtown. 🏢 Breezy, ️16 mph breeze from the northwest 🌬 with gusts up to 28 mph 💨💨💨. Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 7 pm. ☃️

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 42 degrees at 12pm. 11 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 29th. Northwest wind 10 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Another cold day, I left the heat on. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 53 degrees. The record high of 75 was set in 1990. 0.9 inches of snow fell back in 1951.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:40 am with sun having an altitude of 32.1° from the due south horizon (-38.7° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 9.6 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:06 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 4:46 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 5 seconds with dusk around 5:14 pm, which is one minute and 14 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:49 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 39 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 12 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 29 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 28 degrees at 3am. Six degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 27th. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 29 degrees. The record low of 17 occurred back in 1951.

While we are thinking about winter first there is an awesome weekend on tap, with temperatures running 15 degrees above normal. 😎 Saturday, sunny, with a high near 66. Maximum dew point of 51 at 12pm. Sunday, sunny, with a high near 67. Maximum dew point of 51 at 1pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 51 degrees. It’s rare we get such warm and sunny weather in November. I made the right decision to stay in town last weekend.

Well while the weather may be cold ❄ today, the weekend looks really nice. ⛺ I’m thinking about heading out to Central NY for a few days but my plans are far from certain. I could also decide on the Adirondacks. Not sure yet. 🤔

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until December 🎄 when the sun will be setting at 4:22 pm with dusk at 4:54 pm. On that day in 2019, we had snow and temperatures between 28 and 17 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 41 degrees. We hit a record high of 67 back in 1934.