October 16, 2019 Morning

Good morning! What day is it? 🐪 Fords don’t have it of course, Three weeks to the Day After Election Day. 🛀 November is coming, even in Trump’s America. Maybe they’ll impeach him in November so it will make for great conversation around the Thanksgiving tables across America. Mostly cloudy and 44 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south-southeast breeze at 10 mph. 🍃.

I stayed over at my parents house last night ⛺ and sat out back for about an hour with a cup of coffee ☕ next to the heater. It was a nice morning but now the clouds have pushed in. ☁ Nice morning but it meant I got a little bit of a late start heading home and had to rush to the bus.🚌

I listened 👂 to the democratic debate for a while last night on NPR. It’s nice that they finally broadcast the debate on the radio 📻 for those of use who don’t own a television. I guess I could also download it from YouTube and watch it but I don’t think I dare about their faces – I don’t own a television so I don’t care if they are pretty or ugly. Their look won’t cause indigestion of they get elected.

Today will rain, mainly after 2pm. ☁ Clouds now but it will be quite wet this evening. ☔ High of 63 degrees at 3pm. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 9th. Maximum dew point of 50 at 5pm. 🏖️ South wind 10 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 56 degrees. The record high of 88 was set in 1947. There was a dusting of snow in 2009.❄

The sun will set at 6:12 pm with dusk around 6:40 pm, which is one minute and 37 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 58 degrees. The dew point will be 50 degrees. Breezy, 17 mph breeze ⛅ from the east-southeast with gusts up to 29mph. Today will have 11 hours and 2 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 47 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain. The rain could be heavy at times. 🌧 The first Nor ‘Easter is coming. Low of 46 degrees at 6am. Seven degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 29th. Southeast wind 10 to 18 mph becoming north after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 39 degrees. The record low of 21 occurred back in 1940.

Wet today and probably tomorrow but not bad for the weekend. A picture perfect autumn weekend on tap. 😎 Get out and enjoy it gone and snow is here. Saturday, sunny, with a high near 60. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 66. Maximum dew point of 48 at 3pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 59 degrees. I kind of wish I didn’t have my Pine Bush hike because I would be a nice weekend to get out of town. 🌲

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Day After Election Day 🛀 when the sun will be setting at 4:42 pm with dusk at 5:12 pm (Standard Time). I’m sure farmers will be slinging manure on that day as they do a lot of that in November. 💩 🐮 On that day in 2018, we had drizzle showers, cloudy and temperatures between 54 and 44 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 52 degrees. We hit a record high of 73 back in 2015.