Good evening! Cold and damp and 34 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ Calm wind. Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 10 pm. ☃️

We got some pretty good icing midday ⛄ so I’m kind of glad that I stayed home. The commute home in the ice and slush could have been miserable. Never got to upload my photos from my trip as the library was closed. 📙 My truck is not solid froze with ice. I know they predicted it in the outlying areas but I didn’t expect any ice in Delmar. I’ll deal with it eventually. I haven’t been shopping yet this week so I do got to kind of dig it out.

Tonight will be drizzle at times, mainly before 11pm. Cloudy ☁, with a low of 33 degrees at 1am. 17 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 12th. Light and variable wind. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 29 degrees. The record low of -17 occurred back in 1917.

Tonight will have a with 31% illuminated. The moon will rise at 11:01 am. The is on Wednesday night with partly cloudy skies. The is on Wednesday night. The sun will rise at 7:25 am with the first light at 6:53 am, which is 12 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 14 hours and 54 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 37 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of drizzle before 10am, then a slight chance of rain and snow showers between 10am and 11am, then a chance of rain showers after 11am. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 41 degrees at 2pm. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around December 3rd. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became light snow by afternoon. The high last year was 41 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1895. 7.9 inches of snow fell back in 2007.❄

I looked at a lot of dash cam videos and photos 📷 to share on my blog over the coming days when I get a chance to upload them. I want to better tell my story and how seeing the open farm country and rural lands really made me feel. It was so nice to get away and out of the basement where I work, even if I didn’t make it to the Finger Lakes. I also have been getting really interested in the path of moon and sun and are going to incorporate more astrological data into my blog 🎑 in the coming weeks.

I am leaning towards backcountry camping tomorrow night 🌃 to close out the decade but that’s to be decided in the morning. 🎇 I think they’re is enough snow and ice left out in the hilltowns to drag my gear back on a sled. I’ll have a nice fire 🔥 and toast out the end of the decade. I might even buy some egg nog or hot coca to have around the fire. It will be a simple campsite with the heater to keep me plenty warm. Too much ice and snow might make it hard to get a fire going. Not a done deal though for sure.

In four weeks on January 27 the sun will be setting at 5:01 pm,🌄 which is 30 minutes and 58 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly cloudy, snow showers and temperatures between 40 and 11 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 31 and 14 degrees. The record high of 62 degrees was set back in 1974.

Looking ahead, Make Your Dream Come True Day 🏡 is in 2 weeks, National Popcorn Day 🍿 is in 3 weeks, National Pie Day 🍰 is in 3 weeks, Clean Your Computer Day 🧹 is in 6 weeks, Presidents Day 👴 is in 7 weeks, Read Across America Day 📚 is in 9 weeks, Worm Moon 🌕 is in 10 weeks, Arbor Day 🌳 is in 17 weeks, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 18 weeks, Flower Moon 🌕 is in 20 weeks, Memorial Day 🇺🇸 is in 21 weeks, June 🍹 is in 22 weeks and Average High is 80 🏖 is in 25 weeks.