Good morning! Tonight is the first 5:45 PM Sunset of the year. Sunny day with blue skies ☀☀☀ and 33 degrees in Delmar, NY. Some of the best camping weather at least when this falls in November during hunting season. 🦌 There is a west breeze at 5 mph.

Only three weeks remain until the first day of calendar spring!🐸🐣🐝🐞🐜🌺Think spring!

Today will be sunny, with a high of 54 degrees at 3pm.🌞 16 degrees above normal. West wind 5 to 8 mph. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies with some clearing in the afternoon.⛅ The high last year was 55 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1997. 3.6 inches of snow fell back in 2013.

The sun will set at 5:45 pm with dusk around 6:11 pm, which is one minute and 14 seconds later than yesterday. At sunset, look for mostly clear conditions and 51 degrees. 🌄There will be a west-southwest breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 11 hours and 10 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 51 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy, with a low of 34 degrees at 4am.⛅ 14 degrees above normal. South wind around 7 mph. In 2017, we had mostly clear skies with more clouds in the early hours of the next day. It got down to 30 degrees. The record low of -10 occurred back in 1950.

Yesterday was a fairly quiet day at work, but it was fine. 📃📜📄📰💰The morning was crazy then slow but then the afternoon passed by quickly. Today is expected to be much busier. Last night for once was a quiet evening, cooked dinner and took a stroll down to the library.📚

When I got home, I spent a lot of time figuring out how to write data to the 24LC256 EEPROM memory trip. 💻I struggled a bit how to cast data to and from a byte array. It’s not difficult but I wasn’t really up on how to use void typecasting with pointers. I think I’ve figured it out now. I took a class a decade ago on data structures but I had forgotten half of that stuff as I mostly used higher level languages like perl, PHP and python. You can do some really neat stuff with C# when you figure out how to implement it. ♒✴❇

Can’t wait for warmer weather and later sunsets to head down to the park after work. Those days are coming relatively soon or so I hope.📖 Driving past Tommell Cattle’s finishing lot🐂 the other day I was noticing how green the winter rye or whatever the cover crop was on some of those fields.🌾🌱 Little rain, little warmth and good fertile soils produce! The more I learn about agriculture the more I I’m fascinated by it. Natural resources management is a fascinating field for sure. 🐄🐷🐓

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. :roll:Saturday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 44. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 43.🌞 Typical average high for the weekend is 39 degrees. Maybe Sunday will be a good day for getting out hiking. I guess I could go camping⛺ but I kind of have family obligations once again.👫

I’m really hopeful in the next few weeks, that I can spend a night in the wilderness. 🌲🐻⛺ But a lot depends on how busy I am with everything going on from work over the next two months. But sometimes it still is possible to get away for a few days.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until First Day of Spring🌻 when the sun will be setting at 7:08 pm with dusk at 7:36 pm (Daylight Savings Time). On that day in 2017, we had partly cloudy skies and temperatures between 49 and 19 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 46 degrees. We hit a record high of 78 back in 2012.🌳🌺