Good evening! Partly clear and 50 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌌 There is a northwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The skies will clear around 9 pm.

It was a pretty cloudy when I started out on my evening walk 🚶🏻 but now it’s a pretty nice starry evening not bad for mid October. Its hard to believe in less than three weeks it will be November and Election Day will have come and gone. I’m going to have to get my truck inspected 🔎 then. I don’t know, it’s rapidly get cold outside so I might go inside and watch one of those YouTube videos that I downloaded earlier. 📺

I thought about going to John Wolcott’s house this evening after work 🏡 but truth be told I was pretty tired 😴 again and soon after I left the office 🏢 I got a bunch of emails 📧 to work on from home. Memos and more. But I’m fine for the night. 📖 We are also making good progress on his files 📂 and while I’m sure there is more of interest, the Fort Orange file is mostly done. The more recent files are far less interesting to me, mainly because while they are historical research, the fights to save history aren’t yet historic like the things from the Erastus Corning years. 🧓

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌙, with a low of 43 degrees at 5am. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 7th. Northwest wind around 7 mph. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 38 degrees. The record low of 21 occurred back in 1958.

Tonight will have a Waining Crescent 🌘 Moon with 10% illuminated. The darkest hour is at 12:42 am, followed by dawn at 6:39 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:07 am in the east (100°) and last for 2 minutes and 57 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 10 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:45 am with sun in the east-southeast (107°). Tonight will have 12 hours and 52 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 48 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 65 degrees at 2pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 4th. Maximum dew point of 46 at 11am. Calm wind becoming west 5 to 9 mph in the morning. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 71 degrees. The record high of 81 was set in 1920.

I got the new boots 👢 I ordered in the mail today. ✉ That’s good. I wore the black leather boots I got today to work but I’d rather wear the regular boots around home or casually. I also ordered lantern 🏮 mantles but they’re back ordered. I want to clean the lantern well and replace the mantles before I go camping next. ⛺

In four weeks on November 10 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (247°) at 4:37 pm (Standard Time),🌄 which is one hour, 38 minutes and 35 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly cloudy and temperatures between 47 and 33 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 50 and 33 degrees. The record high of 72 degrees was set back in 1931.

Looking ahead, Election Day 2019 🗳️ is in 3 weeks, Average High is 50 🍂 is in 4 weeks, Average Night Below Freezing 🌌 is a month away, December 🎄 is in 7 weeks, Bill of Rights Day 📜 is in 9 weeks, Days are Getting Longer ☀️ is in 10 weeks, Cold Moon 🌕 is in 11 weeks, National Bird Day 🐧 is in 12 weeks, Make Your Dream Come True Day 🏡 is in 3 months, 5:30 PM Dusk 🌆 is in 15 weeks and Ground Hog Day 🐻 is in 16 weeks.