Good morning! Happy Square Dance Day. Left, left, back, right, do it again again. Dark morning, now with rain on and off, with temperatures around 45 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a south-southeast breeze at 14 mph. Rain tomorrow. The skies will clear Thursday around noontime and it looks like a nice weekend on tap, at least for early December.

Rain is expected today. High of 53 degrees at 1pm. Fairly warm for late November, 11 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 48 at 2pm. South wind 10 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies and a high of 41 degrees. Pretty much like today but maybe slightly less wet. The record high of 66 was set in 2005. 3.3 inches of snow fell back in 1945.

The sun will set at 4:23 pm with dusk around 4:54 pm, which is 22 seconds earlier than yesterday. Today will have 9 hours and 18 minutes of daylight, a decrease of 1 minutes and 27 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of rain before 7pm, then a chance of showers between 7pm and 10pm. Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low of 42 degrees at 5am. A mild evening, 15 degrees above normal. Southeast wind around 6 mph becoming calm after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2015, it got down to 22 degrees under partly clear skies. The record low of -10 occurred back in 1875. A few years before my time.

There are 2 months until My 34th Birthday when the sun will be setting at 5:06 pm with dusk at 5:36 pm. The average high temperature is 32 degrees, with a record high of 61 in 1895. Winter is cold. I guess I should look forward to getting a year old, but it sure is a cold time of the year. But I’m sure I’ll still get out camping once or twice in January.

Went down to the library and then for the evening. I have my PostGIS database almost back up and running although for some reason when I imported it didn’t create a GIST index against the geography. So it’s running slowly. I think I may have forgotten to install hstore first which is part of the problem. So I’m going to rebuild that table. I updated the wetlands maps for several counties that relatively recently updated their maps. I fixed waterbodies so no longer are the they divided by counties, with ugly side-effects in maps for bodies of water that cross multiple counties.

I think I walked around 8 miles yesterday. Which was good, because with this dark morning and the threat of rain, I did not take the express bus, but instead to the local to work. So I didn’t get my mile walk down to the bus. I still will walk during lunch, so that will give me 2-3 miles plus if I walk down to the library and back that’s 1.2 miles. Throw in the evening walk, and I’ll be over five. It all depends on if the weather holds off.