Good morning! Happy Final Thursday of 2022. Then only seven years left in the decade from hell. Maybe the markets will be up next year but probably not. 📊 It’s just tough closing out the year on paper looking like your future 🔮 is sliding farther away. I shouldn’t complain, I’m getting some good deals. 💵 Rationally, yes, but it feels like things are going in the wrong way. It’s frustrating to think about. You ride the downs for the ups that are likely in the future, if you wait long enough.. But alas, five weeks until Ground Hog Day 🐻 or so I tell myself.

Fiery red skies and 27 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌅 There is a south-southeast breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. Things will start to thaw out at around 9 am. 🌡️Going to be a nice day especially around lunch time for that walk. My heat is off.

Today will be mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny ☁ ➡ ☀ , with a high of 46 degrees at 2pm. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 24th. South wind around 7 mph. It’s already clearing a bit. A year ago, we had mist in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 38 degrees. The record high of 71 was set in 1984. 6.0 inches of snow fell back in 1915.❄

Almost didn’t get my deposits back at the machine. I swear I’ve had bad luck lately with the can recycling machine, although the Price Chopper one is usually better then Wally World, so I went there instead. Can got stuck in the machine, and I couldn’t get my slip back until I knocked it loose with another bottle. Ultimately I got my deposits back, and got rid of bunch of aluminum cans that were filling up the outside garbage can. Not like you can really burn them.

With the warm weather coming, I am glad that I got my truck washed. I don’t think there will be much salt on the roads come the weekend, though I guess they could apply some should the temperature drop. It’s done so I don’t have to worry about it. Forgot a other things though I will need at the some point, but they can probably wait until the New Year.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:58 am with sun having an altitude of 24.2° from the due south horizon (-46.7° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 13.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:45 pm with the sun in the southwest (231°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (239°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:30 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 24 seconds with dusk around 5:02 pm, which is 46 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the south-southeast (165°) at an altitude of 45° from the horizon, 232,832 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:38 pm. At sunset, look for mostly sunny skies 🌃 and temperatures around 42 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 7 mph. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 8 minutes of daytime, an increase of 36 seconds over today.

Next week is the last week I’m on call for federal jury duty ⚖ so I’ll check later today and if I’m not called I guess I’m good. I also have a deferred state summons but I’m hoping the federal term counts for that and I’m done. Not that it matters much, it literally is only a block down from my office 🏢. Get paid either way.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌃 , with a low of 35 degrees at 10pm. 16 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 6th. Yeah, I can leave the heat off. South wind around 7 mph. In 2021, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mist by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 35 degrees. The record low of -21 occurred back in 1933.

The NYE has improved, although only slightly. 🌧️ Kind of like the economy. New Years Eve, a chance of rain after 1pm. Cloudy, with a high near 49. South wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. New Years Day, more sun with a few showers not as warm, maybe 46. Still that’s a relative thing. Typical average high for the weekend is 34 degrees. But the first week of January seems likely to be in the fifties at times until the next cold blast. Maybe I have reason to hope for a sub $100 electric and fracked gas heating bill. ♨ I just can’t wait until the Ground Hog doesn’t see his shadow and I can sleep with the windows open again.