Good afternoon! Rainy Armistice Day. 🪖 One can be critical of Trump on many levels but at least he’s kept us out of war. 🇺🇲 Maybe it was just dumb luck 🤞🏻. Rain and 63 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a south-southeast breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 62 degrees. Temperatures will drop below freezing tomorrow around noontime. ☃️

Yesterday I went downtown for meetings and to do a bunch of training classes. 🏫 Kind of a boring day 💤 but it was nice getting out and seeing the old office 🏢. Definitely a nice sunset. I went for my evening walk. 🚶🏻I also went over to John Wolcott house for a while 🔍 looking through old documents. 📝

This morning I didn’t wake up until late 🛏 but that was fine because it was a work holiday for Veterans Day. I spent a while looking through old papers at my own home looking for the checkbook 💵 and an envelope ✉ so I can get my direct deposit reestablished at work. Tomorrow morning I’ll walk to the post office 📬 and get a stamp on it so I can get that reestablished. Also did some cleaning in the kitchen and bathroom 🚽.

Veterans Day will have occasional showers. 🌦 High of 63 degrees at 2pm with the mercury continuing to drop as the front rolls through. 19 degrees amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became cloudy by afternoon. The high last year was 43 degrees. The record high of 70 was set in 2002. 3.0 inches of snow fell back in 1906.❄

Solar noon 🌞 was at 11:40 am with sun having an altitude of 29.8° from the due south horizon (-41° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 10.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:56 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (239°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (247°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:38 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 10 seconds with dusk around 5:06 pm, which is one minute and 2 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:41 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 63 degrees. The dew point will be 62 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 53 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 17 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be occasional showers, mainly before midnight. 🌧 Low of 46 degrees at 6am. 13 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 29th. South wind 6 to 13 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 19 degrees. The record low of 15 occurred back in 1976.

Weekend forecast is improving but seasonable cold. ☀️Saturday, sunny, with a high near 48. Sunday, a chance of showers after 10am. Partly sunny, with a high near 53. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Typical average high for the weekend is 49 degrees.

Still think it will be a stay-at-home weekend. 🏡

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Earliest Sunset of the Year ⌛️ when the sun will be setting at 4:21 pm with dusk at 4:53 pm. On that day in 2019, we had rain showers, cloudy and temperatures between 47 and 37 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 38 degrees. We hit a record high of 62 back in 1966.