Good morning! Happy Average Night Below Freezing 🌌! Happy Friday the 13th in two ought two ough. 👹 Ain’t that a cheery thought. Two weeks to Buy Nothing Day 🛍️. Clouds and 36 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁️ Calm wind. The air smells like barnyard 🐮 and wood smoke 🔥 on my morning walk. Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 9 pm. ☃️

Listening to Cat Stevens 🙀 and out for my morning walk 🚶🏻 on this very gray November morning. The days are short and getting increasingly cold and it looks like it won’t be long before we get rain. Just November. Feeling a bit stiff and miserable but it’s the weather and the probably residual Lyme disease or spending too much time in my uncomfortable chair working from home.

Yesterday was kind of dull and cloudy day, ☁️ with a few work calls 📞 but very quiet. I played a lot with the COVID-19 data and explored some new ideas I had for making maps. While my phone doesn’t work as a hot spot, I discovered that I can use it both to upload and download data via the USB cable. 🔌 I probably should go library to work today and save some data on my phone 📱 but the weather isn’t particularly nice. I saw the library now has hotspots you can borrow but I don’t know, I kind of like having limited internet access at home.

Today will have light rain before noon, then rain likely between noon and 4pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a high of 43 degrees at 1pm. Six degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 27th. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 26 degrees. The record high of 69 was set in 1964. 6.0 inches of snow fell back in 1886.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:41 am with sun having an altitude of 29.3° from the due south horizon (-41.6° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 10.7 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:54 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (239°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (246°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:36 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 11 seconds with dusk around 5:04 pm, which is 58 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:40 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 43 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 9 hours and 49 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 14 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 34 degrees at 6am. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 8th. West wind 3 to 5 mph. In 2019, we had clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 20 degrees. The record low of 12 occurred back in 1996.

Tomorrow will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 45 degrees at 1pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 22nd. Northwest wind 8 to 16 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 37 degrees. The record high of 70 was set in 1973. 14.4 inches of snow fell back in 1972.❄

Going to be kind of cold ❄ and blustery for my walk 🚶🏻 out to Five Rivers 🐦 🐸 but I like it so I’ll probably do it tomorrow. I expect Sunday’s weather to be worse. I do need to get there early because now the sun set is early and even with the blaze orange it’s not safe walking 🚘 on the narrow shoulders of Delaware Avenue.

Looking ahead to Sunday, a slight chance of rain and snow before 10am, then rain likely. ☔ Mostly cloudy, with a high near 49. South wind 5 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. Typical average high for the weekend is 49 degrees.

On Sunday it will be another stay at home day, 🏡 except maybe for going out to the folks house for Sunday dinner. 🍲 I should figure out some other projects to work on too.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Buy Nothing Day 🛍️ when the sun will be setting at 4:24 pm with dusk at 4:55 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly sunny, rain showers and temperatures between 57 and 31 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 43 degrees. We hit a record high of 66 back in 1896.