Good morning! Happy Sunday. Cloudy and 42 degrees this morning but will warm up later on. ☁ There is a south-southeast breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. The current wind chill is 30. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Tuesday around 6 pm. ☃️

Up and cooking this morning at 5 o’clock after running to the rest room. 🧑🏻‍🍳 Just eggs 🥚 for breakfast and a grapefruit. 🟠 Also cooking down chickpeas for hummus. Plan to get to the store fairly early this morning, including home depot to get the stove burner first. ⛽ I need to gas up the truck, first time since before my Thanksgiving Black Friday trip to the Adirondacks. 🌲I could get propane but I’ll probably wait until heading out of town on Thursday or Friday.

Today will have a slight chance of drizzle or light rain between 11am and 2pm, then a chance of rain after 2pm. Cloudy 🌧, with a high of 49 degrees at 4pm. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 17th. Southeast wind 7 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 39 degrees. The record high of 59 was set in 1984. 19.7 inches of snow fell back in 2020.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:52 am with sun having an altitude of 24° from the due south horizon (-46.8° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 13.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:38 pm with the sun in the southwest (231°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (238°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:24 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 25 seconds with dusk around 4:55 pm, which is 18 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the south (189°) at an altitude of 32° from the horizon, 226,410 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:32 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 48 degrees. There will be a southeast breeze at 7 mph. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 6 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 17 seconds over today.

Tonight will rain. The rain could be heavy at times. 🌧 Low of 48 degrees at 6pm. 24 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 3rd. Southeast wind 7 to 9 mph becoming east after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible. In 2022, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 25 degrees. The record low of -9 occurred back in 1919.

Today in 1777 during the American Revolution, ⛲ France formally recognizes the United States.

As previously noted, next Sunday is Christmas Eve 🎅 when the sun will be setting at 4:28 pm with dusk at 4:58 pm. On that day in 2022, we had cold day, partly cloudy skies, snow showers and temperatures between 15 and 7 degrees. This Christmas Eve looks to be a lot warmer but then again it’s an El Niño winter much like 2005. Typically, the high temperature is 36 degrees. We hit a record high of 72 back in 2015.