Good morning! Happy Sunday. ⛪ America Recycles Day. ♻ Three weeks to First Sunday of Advent ✝️. Mostly cloudy and 28 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south-southeast breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. Things will start to thaw out at around 9 am. 🌡️

Colder than I expected last night, ❄ I woke up in the middle of the night and decided that I should turn up the heat as it was frigid in bed. Ended up waking up in the middle of the night 🌃 and staying awake for a few hours before falling asleep for a few more hours.

Yesterday was another kind of boring day 😴 and I walked out to Five Rivers 🐦 for a few hours. The bluebirds I saw along the lake were quite beautiful. It was a nice walk but by the time I got home, listened to the news 📰 and had dinner I ended up putting some podcasts on and retiring for the day.

Today will have showers likely, mainly after 5pm. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 49 degrees at 5pm. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 14th. South wind 7 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. 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 50 degrees. The record high of 74 was set in 1993. 4.8 inches of snow fell back in 1906.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:41 am with sun having an altitude of 28.8° from the due south horizon (-42.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 10.9 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:51 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (238°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (245°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:34 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 12 seconds with dusk around 5:02 pm, which is 54 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the west-southwest (243°) at an altitude of 1° from the horizon, 227,803 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:38 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 48 degrees. Breezy, 16 mph breeze ⛅ from the south-southeast with gusts up to 30mph. Today will have 9 hours and 44 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 8 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have showers and possibly a thunderstorm before midnight, then a slight chance of showers between midnight and 1am. 🌧 Low of 41 degrees at 6am. Seven degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 18th. South wind 10 to 16 mph becoming west after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2019, we had light snow in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 20 degrees. The record low of 7 occurred back in 1972.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until First Sunday of Advent ✝️ when the sun will be setting at 4:22 pm with dusk at 4:53 pm. On that day in 2019, we had snow showers, cloudy and temperatures between 34 and 26 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 39 degrees. We hit a record high of 68 back in 2001.