Good morning! Happy Small Business Saturday 🛍️! Next Saturday is December 🎄. Yeap, getting Big Red government inspected on Wednesday, Trump will be proud. Partly cloudy and 24 degrees in Delmar. ⛅ There is a south-southeast breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. With the sun, things feel quite mild. There is a inch of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at around 11 am. 🌡️ Snow won’t last long locally once the rain comes.

It’s a pleasant morning, so I am going to go for a walk out to Voorheesville along the rail trail, 🚂then come home for lunch then down to the library. 📚I will do my internet thing – the internet works fairly well now – at least in certain parts of the library then come home and work on some electronics projects,🔬 then read more of The Unsettlers, a book by Mark Sunden about off griders and back to landers. 🚜

Today will have a chance of rain, mainly after 4pm. Increasing clouds 🌞, with a high of 38 degrees at 2pm. Six degrees below normal, which is similiar to a typical day around December 8th. South wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 48 degrees. That year I was hiking Moxham Mountain and camping on the East Branch, it was nice. ⛺The record high of 70 was set in 2014. 8.8 inches of snow fell back in 1898.❄

The sun will set at 4:25 pm with dusk around 4:56 pm, which is 34 seconds earlier than yesterday. Not becoming much earlier at this point. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain showers pushing in 🌧 and temperatures around 37 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 27 minutes of daytime, a decrease of one minute and 44 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain. Patchy fog after 10pm. 🌧 Low of 37 degrees at 6pm. Eight degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical night around October 26th. Light and variable wind becoming northeast around 6 mph in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between three quarters and one inch possible. In 2017, we had clear skies. It got down to 39 degrees. The record low of 2 occurred back in 1938.

I am watching the forecast, but I’m thinking I may get out of town next weekend as long as the forecast remains true 🌲and we have nice weather Saturday and Sunday doesn’t turn out to be icy. Probably head up north, as at this point it will be mostly muzzleloaders and a handful of riffle and small game people in the woods as all the action now is the Southern Zone. 🔫

As previously noted, next Saturday is December 🎄 when the sun will be setting at 4:22 pm with dusk at 4:54 pm. On that day in 2017, we had rain, mostly cloudy skies and temperatures between 45 and 31 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 41 degrees. We hit a record high of 67 back in 1934.