Seems like it’s going to be a rather nice day. I’m glad I decided to take most of it off, though I do have a 3 pm meeting but it’s a Zoom Meeting so I can do it remotely from the trail side. Maybe a day or two from now the high pressure will break down and it will be much cooler and rainy for Columbus Day Weekend.

Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Fog 🌫 and 52 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. The dew point is 51 degrees.

Definitely a foggy 🌁 morning but it should be a nice day. Maybe a tad bit humid by afternoon. Out for my morning walk 🚶 after getting up at five o’clock and doing minimal cooking 🍳my standards lately – eggs with all the vegetables and spices. Putting some ginger and cinnamon in the coffee ☕ really spiced things up. Then I’ll shower 🚿 and head out on the trail.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 83 degrees at 3pm. 16 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around August 13th. Maximum dew point of 64 at 5pm. Muggy enough to almost feel like summer. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 56 degrees. We will likely tie the record high of 83 set in 1967. There was a dusting of snow in 1974.❄

I’ve decided to have an O-K day today. 🚲 Spending my day in Kinderhook, going to ride the Albany Hudson Electric Trail, visit the grounds of Martin Van Buren Historical Site, get apples and stuff at Golden Harvest Farms and who knows what else. Maybe explore the Charles Flood WMA first thing on the Hudson River or the Oom Preserve later on. At 3 pm to 4 pm I have a work zoom meeting and then I need to run to Colonie Planning Board for a scoping hearing about the proposed solar farm in the Pine Bush. Figure start in Stuyvesant Falls and ride north so the trip back is mostly down hill. Lots of options is how I look at it for a nice day.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:45 pm with sun having an altitude of 43.5° from the due south horizon (-27.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 6.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:58 pm with the sun in the west (259°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (266°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 6:35 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 54 seconds with dusk around 7:02 pm, which is one minute and 44 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 7:36 pm. At sunset, look for clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 77 degrees. The dew point will be 64 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Tomorrow will have 11 hours and 39 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over today.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 56 degrees at 6am. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 8th. Maximum dew point of 64 at 6pm. Light and variable wind. In 2022, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 47 degrees. The record low of 26 occurred back in 1948.

Much cooler and rainy to start out the Columbus Day Weekend. ⛵🍂 Saturday, showers likely. Cloudy, with a high near 66. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Maximum dew point of 61 at 6am. Sunday, a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 58. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Typical average high for the weekend is 65 degrees.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Halloween 🎃 when the sun will be setting at 5:51 pm with dusk at 6:19 pm. On that day in 2022, we had partly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 64 and 37 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 56 degrees. We hit a record high of 75 back in 2019.