Good morning! Happy Sunday. Columbus Day ⛵ is tomorrow. Three weeks to November 🥧. Autumn we set the clocks back one hour on that day. Mostly cloudy ⛅ and 51 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a north breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 42 degrees.

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 59 degrees at 4pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 17th. North wind around 9 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 67 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 1949. There was a dusting of snow in 1987.❄

I was thinking about spending the day hiking Harvey Mountain and Beebe Hill ⛰️ but it doesn’t look it it is going to be a real sunny day. It’s a bit of a drive out there so I don’t want to go out there if the weather is going to be cloudy. ☁️

Tonight will have a Waining Crescent 🌘 Moon with 33% illuminated. At 8 AM, the moon was in the south-southeast (166°) at an altitude of 69° from the horizon, some 235,874 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by April 8^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The moon will set in the west-northwest (299°) at 4:00 pm. The Blue Moon is on Halloween 🦇. The darkest hour is at 12:43 am, followed by dawn at 6:37 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:05 am in the east (99°) and last for 2 minutes and 57 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:43 am with sun in the east-southeast (106°). Tonight will have 12 hours and 46 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 49 seconds over last night.

Tonight will have a slight chance of rain after 3am. Increasing clouds 🌧, with a low of 42 degrees at 5am. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 9th. North wind around 7 mph becoming east after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies. It got down to 44 degrees. The record low of 22 occurred back in 1964.

In four weeks on November 8 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (248°) at 4:39 pm (Standard Time),🌄 which is one hour, 39 minutes and 44 seconds earlier then today. In 2019 on that day, we had cold, sunny, snow showers and temperatures between 37 and 23 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 51 and 34 degrees. The record high of 75 degrees was set back in 1975.

Looking ahead, November 🥧 is in 3 weeks, Veterans Day 🇺🇸 is a month away, First Sunday of Advent ✝️ is in 8 weeks, Saint Nicholas Day 🎅 is in 8 weeks, Latest Sunrise of the Winter 🌄️ is in 12 weeks, Don’t Cry over Spilled Milk Day 🥛 is in 4 months and Valentines Day ❤️ is in 18 weeks.