Good evening! Mostly clear and 60 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. 🌌 The dew point is 49 degrees. A pretty nice evening if not a bit cool. I went for my evening walk 🚶🏻 and then sat out for a bit.

Hiking at Cole Hill State Forest was nice but loud with those folks siting in their rifles at Cole Hill. They were being safe and had a good back stop but they were loud especially with the larger caliber stuff they were shooting like the AR-15. 🔫 The 22 and shotguns weren’t they loud in comparison. Shooting is something folks do on public land. 🌲🌳🌲A lot of wildlife 🐿️🐰🐦🦆🦉in the newer clear cut up top there.

At the parents house we had a nice picnic 🍗which chicken and sweet 🌽. It was a pretty nice evening. I downloaded a bunch of historical topographic maps I want to study and use for projects. 👕👖I did my wash while I was out there but these days wearing shorts and reusing clothes multiple days because I work from home I only had one load from the past week. 👃🏻 I can be a lot dirtier when I work remotely.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 49 degrees at 4am. Eight degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 22nd. Light west wind. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 54 degrees. The record low of 37 occurred back in 1965.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon with 95% illuminated. At 9 PM, the moon was in the southeast (143°) at an altitude of 19° from the horizon, some 242,322 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by March 2^nd. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Harvest 🌽 Moon is on Tuesday, September 1. The darkest hour is at 12:57 am, followed by dawn at 5:50 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:20 am in the east-northeast (77°) and last for 2 minutes and 58 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 4 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:57 am with sun in the east (84°). Tonight will have 10 hours and 47 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 45 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 75 degrees at 4pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 8th. Maximum dew point of 53 at 9am. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 76 degrees. The record high of 93 was set in 1953.

Zoom Meetings tomorrow so I’ll probably work down at the library parking lot 🅿 although it might be nice at the Town Park as long as things are charged on the laptops. 💻 Tomorrow seems like it will be modestly busy but not a crazy 🤪 Monday but that’s certainly subject to change.

No decisions yet on next weekend but as I told my parents much could change with the forecast 🌀 before then. Honestly I’d prefer to head north the following weekend and avoid the crowds. 👪 But if the weather is nice I wouldn’t mind getting away. With remote work and the fact I’m kind of always on call as a supervisor 📞there really is no time I’m not working. Weekdays and weekends are kind of the same.

In four weeks on September 27 the sun will be setting in the west (268°) at 6:43 pm,🌄 which is 49 minutes and 20 seconds earlier then tonight. Amazing how much daylight you loose around the beginning of autumn. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly sunny, patches of fog and temperatures between 72 and 46 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 68 and 47 degrees. The record high of 89 degrees was set back in 2017.

Continuing to thumb 👍🏻 through bicycle ads on Facebook. 🚲 There certainly are a lot of affordable options. I really should sit down and figure what I really need in a commuter bike. I’m not sure really what I’m looking at but most of the options are quite affordable that I’m seeing being sold. I know a lot of people who are big bike riders, I should ask them for tips. 🤔

Because of issues of incompatibility I’ve not been able to upgrade my blog to the latest version of WordPress. 📝 I’ve downloaded the latest version of the software and plan to test it locally to fix the bugs 🐛 so I can update and avoid security problems. 🔒 I think I know the issue but I need to test it to be sure.

Looking ahead, Average High 70 🎑 is in 3 weeks, More Night then Day 🌌 is in 4 weeks, Last Sunset After 6:30 PM 🌆 is in 5 weeks, November 🥧 is in 9 weeks, Cyber Monday 🛍️ and Beaver Moon is in 3 months, First Sunday of Advent ✝️ is in 14 weeks, Saint Nicholas Day 🎅 is in 14 weeks, Bacon Day 🥓 is in 4 months, Latest Sunrise of the Winter 🌄️ is in 18 weeks and Valentines Day ❤️ is in 24 weeks.