Good morning! Happy Thursday. Three weeks to Thanksgiving 🦃. Sunny and 42 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 There is a south breeze at 8 mph. 🍃.

A bit of a cold ❄ morning but when I stepped outside already it’s feeling warm ☀ with the sun. I have some work to do this morning ☕ but once that’s done and I’m finished 💻 I’m going to head out to Madison County for camping. ⛺ I’ll be work remotely the next two days and then spend the weekend a around Cazenovia.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 66 degrees at 1pm. 14 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 1st. South wind 8 to 13 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became partly cloudy by afternoon. The high last year was 56 degrees. The record high of 75 was set in 1994. 3.0 inches of snow fell back in 1894.❄

The leaves are done and the land is browns and grays 🍂 prevailed but it’s remarkably warm and sunny. It should be a a nice drive. I expect a quiet drive out there but I have to stop 🛑 to do my online meetings at a library.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:40 am with sun having an altitude of 31.5° from the due south horizon (-39.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 9.8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:03 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (242°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (249°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:44 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 7 seconds with dusk around 5:12 pm, which is one minute and 11 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:47 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 63 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 7 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 26 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 47 degrees at 6am. 13 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 27th. South wind 5 to 10 mph. In 2019, we had light rain. It got down to 30 degrees. The record low of 15 occurred back in 1951.

Awesome weekend on tap, with temperatures running 16 degrees above normal. 😎 Saturday, patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 67. Light southwest wind. Maximum dew point of 49 at 1pm. Sunday, sunny, with a high near 67. Maximum dew point of 51 at 3pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 51 degrees.

It’s going to be a nice four days out here 🐮, a nice change from spending so much time in Albany. Farm country is pretty different from the Adirondacks. I might do a longer trip come December.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Thanksgiving 🦃 when the sun will be setting at 4:24 pm with dusk at 4:56 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 58 and 34 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 44 degrees. We hit a record high of 67 back in 1979.