Good morning! It’s Regular Deer Season in Southern Zone 🦌! Big game ain’t my thing living in the suburbs but all my country buds are up in their stands today with their rifles and shotguns. 🔫 Next Saturday is Small Business Saturday. 🛍️ I’ll probably be out camping, God willing. Partly cloudy and 48 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ There is a northwest breeze at 15 mph. 🍃 with gusts up to 25 mph 💨💨💨. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Monday morning around midnight. ☃️

Cornbread pancakes 🥞 this morning for breakfast. I like them, they are a nice hardy breakfast compared to having regular pancakes with fruit 🍒 which can get boring after a while although I’ve been seriously enjoying the frozen pineapple chunks 🍍 I’ve been having all week. I like frozen fruits and vegetables as they don’t have a lot of packaging to get rid of and they are inexpensive and don’t spoil in the freezer.

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 50 degrees at 10am. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 11th. At least back in the day. Northwest wind 13 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning, which became mostly clear by afternoon. The high last year was 47 degrees. The record high of 70 was set in 1931. 0.8 inches of snow fell back in 1937.❄

I am going to walk out to Five Rivers 🐦 a little after noon. This way I can have lunch before I leave and just bring my binoculars and camera 📸. Sunny now, maybe I should go now but I’m enjoying a lazy Saturday listening 👂🏻 to the radio 📻, wasting bandwidth on Facebook. 📱

I had the heat on Thursday but since then it’s been mild enough ♨ I’ve been keeping it turned down. I am sure I’ll need more in a few weeks especially working from home but I’m thinking I’ll get a heating pad and maybe a small desktop heater with a fan to turn on briefly when I get chilled and don’t want to necessarily crank up the heat on both floors of the apartment or use the upstairs electric baseboard heat. It’s gas downstairs, but that heater is rather slow.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:42 am with sun having an altitude of 27.3° from the due south horizon (-43.5° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 11.6 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. Shadows are long this time of year. Sun is weak. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:46 pm with the sun in the southwest (236°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (243°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:29 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 16 seconds with dusk around 4:58 pm, which is 42 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the south-southeast (166°) at an altitude of 29° from the horizon, 242,928 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:34 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 45 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 13 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 32 minutes of daytime, a decrease of one minute and 54 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 24 degrees at 6am. Six degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around December 8th. Northwest wind 5 to 9 mph becoming light. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 33 degrees. The record low of 8 occurred back in 2018.

Tomorrow will have a chance of rain, mainly after 4pm. Increasing clouds 🌧, with a high of 40 degrees at 1pm. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around December 4th. Light and variable wind becoming southeast around 6 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning, which became mostly clear by afternoon. The high last year was 48 degrees. The record high of 70 was set in 1931. 9.1 inches of snow fell back in 1943.❄

Tomorrow doesn’t sound really nice 😔 but I’m probably going out to the folks house for Sunday dinner. 🍲 Maybe a morning walk like last week, depending on the weather. I should run to the store 🏬 next week before the craziness 🤪 of Black Friday and holiday / Thanksgiving shopping 🛒 to get some food and supplies, and return beer cans ♻ that have been sitting in the back of my truck since I camped at Stoney Pond.

As previously noted, next Saturday is Small Business Saturday 🛍️ when the sun will be setting at 4:24 pm with dusk at 4:55 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 47 and 33 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 43 degrees. We hit a record high of 68 back in 1990.

In four weeks on December 19 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (238°) at 4:24 pm,🌄 which is 3 minutes and 33 seconds earlier then today. In 2019 on that day, we had cold, mostly sunny and temperatures between 18 and 6 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 35 and 20 degrees. The record high of 54 degrees was set back in 1895.

Looking ahead, Small Business Saturday 🛍️ is in 1 week, Repeal of Prohibition Day 🍺 is in 2 weeks (with the bars closed due to the CORONA), First Day of Winter ☃️ is a month away, Boxing Day 🥊 is in 5 weeks, Static Electric Shock Day 🧼 is in 7 weeks (careful with electronics projects), National Cheese Lovers Day 🧀 is in 9 weeks, Save the Pine Bush Turns 43 🦋 is in 11 weeks, 5:30 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 13 weeks, Snow Moon 🌕 is in 14 weeks and Snow Moon 🌕 is in 14 weeks.