Good morning! Happy Bacon Day 🥓. I’m guessing hog farmers like this day. 🐽 I’m always a bit surprised how contract hog growers get paid is in manure their hogs produce which get applied to fields to grow profitable crops. 🌽 In many cases as much the actual head of hogs. Fertility is expensive, especially these days. Me myself, I’m not that much of a fan of bacon, especially that tasteless overpriced stuff at the stores. 🏬 Maybe if I had hogs on my own land 🚜 I’d have different thoughts.

Cloudy and 41 degrees at the Elm Ave Town Park. ☁ There is a southeast breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. Heading up to the fifties later. Not as sunny as yesterday but still warm enough that it’s comfortable without the heat on.

Final work day of 2022. 💼 I got the end of the year report out yesterday so that is done, and as now everything is done. I actually think all of the researchers are off so I might end running the daily reports today but that’s fine. It’s the calm before the storm. 🌀

Today will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 52 degrees at 2pm. 17 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 10th. South wind 5 to 7 mph. A year ago, we had mist in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 44 degrees. The record high of 53 was set in 1984. 10.9 inches of snow fell back in 2000.❄

I will accept early November weather on the closing days of the year. They aren’t talking about freezing weather until next Friday. Which is wild for January but also part of the new warming world we live in. 🍃 I wonder if the grass will green up. And then I’m sure there will be another artic blast. Certainly before January closes.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:59 am with sun having an altitude of 24.2° from the due south horizon (-46.6° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 13.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:46 pm with the sun in the southwest (231°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (239°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:31 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 24 seconds with dusk around 5:02 pm, which is 47 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the south-southeast (146°) at an altitude of 48° from the horizon, 235,550 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:39 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 49 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 9 minutes of daytime, an increase of 36 seconds over yesterday.

I got a state jury summons today in the mail 📜 but I think I am exempt after my federal jury term even though I was never called into the service. I will send in proof of service and see what the Commissioner of Jurors says. The handbook suggests I’m exempt, I’m thinking the state and feds don’t talk.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌃 , with a low of 39 degrees at 1am. 20 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 23rd. South wind around 8 mph. In 2021, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 24 degrees. The record low of -17 occurred back in 1917.

Tomorrow will rain, mainly after 11am. 🌧 High of 51 degrees at 2pm. 17 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 12th. Maximum dew point of 46 at 1pm. 🏖️ South wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mist in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 39 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1895. 7.9 inches of snow fell back in 2007.❄

Typical average high for the weekend is 34 degrees.