Good morning! Happy Sunday in Biden’s America. ⛪ Maybe he’ll get a chance to build it back better when the Trumpster stops being such a sore loser. 🤡 I think even Alfred E Smith was a better boy 🧒🏻 after he lost. At least Mr. Smith had a wonderful sense of humor and did a lot for NYC charities even while he ran the Liberty League. 🗽 Two weeks to First Sunday of Advent ✝️. Partly sunny and 33 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a north-northeast breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Tuesday around 4 am. ☃️

I slept like shit last night 🤪 because I didn’t have any sleeping pills 💊 and I’m increasingly dependent on them to stay asleep during the winter months when I can’t have the windows open. I think I was also was just quite disturbed by how packed both the Albany Pine Bush and Crossgates Maul were during the pandemic. 🌲 At least the judge through us a pretty good bone when it comes to Saving the Pine Bush although I’m sure the Pyramid scheme and its enablers will appeal immediately 🚧 and it’s the fight of the twenties. Tried to sleep in to catch up on the hours I was awake most of the night but now I’m just tired 😴 and the remainder of the day will be cloudy and gray. ☁️

Today will have a chance of rain, mainly after 3pm. Increasing clouds 🌥, with a high of 40 degrees at 11am. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around December 4th. Going to a rather chilly morning to say the least. North wind 5 to 7 mph becoming southeast 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 mostly sunny skies in the morning with some clearing in the 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.❄

Today looks like a stay at home day. 🏡 Sort of. I’m going out to the folks house later today for Sunday dinner 🍲 but I don’t have any outdoors plans to day. 📚 I do want to look at library catalog 📇 online and think about reserving some books to pick up before the long holiday weekend. I have Buy Nothing Day off it would be good to get some books to read 📖 especially if I’m planning on going to the Adirondacks.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 11:43 am with sun having an altitude of 27.1° from the due south horizon (-43.7° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 11.7 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 3:45 pm with the sun in the southwest (235°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (243°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:28 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 16 seconds with dusk around 4:58 pm, which is 39 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the south-southeast (153°) at an altitude of 30° from the horizon, 245,651 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 5:34 pm. At sunset, look for rain showers 🌧 and temperatures around 37 degrees. There will be a southeast breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 31 minutes of daytime, a decrease of one minute and 51 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain, mainly after 11pm. 🌧 Low of 38 degrees at 6pm. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 15th. Southeast wind 8 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. In 2019, we had clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 29 degrees. The record low of 4 occurred back in 2018.

It doesn’t look like we are going to get much snow or ice ❄ tonight and maybe the rain will wash the salt off the roads. I don’t think 🤔 I should count on an evening walk 🚶🏻 but who knows, the rain may hold off. I’m hoping to stop somewhere and get more sleeping medication

As previously noted, there are 2 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.