Good morning! Happy Average High is 40 🌨! First Friday of December, 5 weeks until New Years Day 2021. Two weeks to Bake Cookies Day 🍪. Santa 🎅🏿 would approve, especially with a cold glass of milk 🥛 produced by an Upstate NY dairy farm 🐮 . Mostly cloudy and 39 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 9 pm. ☃️

Mild but gray this morning. 🌥 A few breaks of the clouds to the southwest but warm enough to be just wear the vest and the long sleeve shirt this morning. No snow yet locally 🌨 but some of the higher elevations have a dusting according to NOAA estimates and pictures I’ve seen on social media. A year ago was much more snowy ☃ but it didn’t last. I’m hopeful it won’t be too snowy this next week and I can get out of town next week.

Yesterday despite my ambitious plans 🏡 I ended up working from home and just reading 📖 in the evening about farming 🚜 and watching some YouTube videos I previously downloaded. Today at lunch time I’m going to run to the store, do a quick wash of my truck 🚚 and then I’ll go to the library in my warmed up truck for the Zoom Meeting 👥 and get podcasts and any YouTube videos that I might want to watch at home.

Today will have a slight chance of showers after noon. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 47 degrees at 1pm. Seven degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 19th. South wind 7 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 36 degrees. The record high of 63 was set in 1998. 6.0 inches of snow fell back in 1901.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:47 am with sun having an altitude of 25.1° from the due south horizon (-45.8° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 12.8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:38 pm with the sun in the southwest (232°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (240°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:23 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 22 seconds with dusk around 4:53 pm, which is 12 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:30 pm. At sunset, look for rain showers 🌧 and temperatures around 45 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 9 mph. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 11 minutes of daytime, a decrease of one minute and 8 seconds over today.

Tonight will have a slight chance of rain showers before 3am, then a chance of rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 35 degrees at 3am. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 3rd. South wind 5 to 8 mph becoming calm after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. In 2019, we had clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 28 degrees. The record low of 2 occurred back in 1989.

Tomorrow will have a chance of rain and snow before 8am, then a chance of rain between 8am and 2pm, then a chance of rain and snow after 2pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a high of 40 degrees at 10am. Typical for temperatures. North wind 6 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 38 degrees. The record high of 65 was set in 2001. 9.0 inches of snow fell back in 1902.❄

Looking ahead to Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 35. 🌞 Northwest wind 11 to 14 mph. Typical average high for the weekend is 40 degrees. Cool but sunny. No ambitious plans for Sunday but I’ll probably bundle up and head out somewhere with the binoculars to look at the wildlife 🕊️🦉 and the winter birds.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Bake Cookies Day 🍪 when the sun will be setting at 4:23 pm with dusk at 4:55 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly sunny skies with snow showers and temperatures between 36 and 14 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 35 degrees. We hit a record high of 60 back in 1921. A few years before my time.