Good evening! Heavy rain and 47 degrees in North Syracuse. ☔ There is a east breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. It was not a great drive back home but with the fog lights and the headlights in better adjustment it wasn’t so bad. The skies will clear Sunday around 5 am.

Tonight will continue to rain. ☔ Low of 47 degrees at 10pm. Very mild tonight, 11 degrees above normal. East wind around 7 mph becoming south after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. In 2017, we had light rain in the evening, remaining overcast into the early morning. It got down to 48 degrees. The record low of 19 occurred back in 2002.

Tonight will have a Waning Crescent Moon 🌘 with 33% illuminated. The moon will rise at 1:29 am. The New Moon is on Tuesday night with mostly cloudy skies. The Beaver Moon 🌝 is in 3 weeks. The sun will rise at 7:40 am with the first light at 7:10 am, which is one minute and 17 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 13 hours and 45 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 36 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have rain likely before 9am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 9am and 10am, then a chance of showers after 10am. Mostly cloudy ☁, with a high of 57 degrees at 12pm. Five degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 51 at 6am. Southwest wind 3 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 68 degrees. The record high of 82 was set in 1950. 0.1 inches of snow fell back in 1911.❄

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, rain likely before 8am, then showers likely after 8am. Cloudy, with a high near 44. West wind 8 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A bit unstable. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 50. After the shitty weather of late that will be a refreshing change. Typical average high for the weekend is 53 degrees.

In four weeks on November 29 the sun will be setting at 4:31 pm (Standard Time),🌄 which is one hour, 24 minutes and 41 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2017 on that day, we had mostly cloudy skies and temperatures between 56 and 28 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 42 and 28 degrees. The record high of 66 degrees was set back in 2005.

Looking ahead, Thanksgiving 🦃 is in 3 weeks and New Years Day 2019 🎉 is in 2 months. Seems hard to believe.