Good morning! What day is it? A frigid Hump Day in Biden’s America, of course. 🐫 I bet camel teats are warm this time of year. 🥛 Three weeks to Earliest Sunset of the Year ⌛️. Dark times ahead at least for a few weeks. By Inauguration Day though, sunset will be around 5 pm again. Mostly sunny and 24 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a northwest breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. Things will start to thaw out at around 1 pm. 🌡️

Kind of a cold winters morning ❄ for my mornings walk. Playing California Dreaming as I go for my walk 🚶🏻. That wind 🍃 is pretty chilly but the sun feels nice. 🌠 I didn’t do my walk last night because it was pretty cold and damp out but today with the sun is a lot more reasonable. ♨ Heat is on in my apartment and it’s nice and warm and comfortable.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 33 degrees at 2pm. 14 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around December 23rd. Northwest wind 10 to 14 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became light snow by afternoon. The high last year was 41 degrees. The record high of 71 was set in 1928. 9.0 inches of snow fell back in 1980.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:42 am with sun having an altitude of 28° from the due south horizon (-42.8° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 11.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:49 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (237°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (244°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:31 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 14 seconds with dusk around 5:00 pm, which is 48 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the south-southwest (206°) at an altitude of 19° from the horizon, 234,230 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:36 pm. At sunset, look for clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 30 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 13 mph. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 36 minutes of daytime, a decrease of one minute and 58 seconds over today.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 20 degrees at 4am. 11 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around December 18th. Maximum wind chill around 18 at 6pm; Northwest wind 5 to 8 mph becoming calm. In 2019, we had light snow. It got down to 34 degrees. The record low of 12 occurred back in 1972.

Definitely much warmer for the weekend 🌥Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 51. Sunday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 47. Typical average high for the weekend is 46 degrees.

I decided this weekend to stay in town 🏡 just because I think it’s going to be cloudy and I think the weekend after Thanksgiving 🦃 will be nicer and it has the potential to be a three day weekend.

As previously noted, there are 3 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.