Good morning! Happy Sunday. Two weeks to November 🥧. Partly sunny and 38 degrees at the Cherry Ridge Camping Area. There is a south breeze at 11 mph. 🍃. It’s already warmed up a lot from earlier when it was below freezing when I first woke up. But November is only two weeks away.

It’s a beautiful morning ☀ but cold with the breeze. I’m going to take down camp ⛺ shortly and go for a walk. Still chewing over my plans for the day. 💭

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 57 degrees at 4pm. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 22nd. South wind 11 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 52 degrees. The record high of 84 was set in 2016. There was a dusting of snow in 2015.❄

I am a bit undecided about today. 🐸 I am thinking about going down to Sherburne later and maybe staying up here one more night, leaving early Monday morning and heading home before the rain ☔ and work 💻. I guess it depends on how cloudy ⛅ and cool it becomes today. I might first go for a walk in the state forest. It really depends on how cold and cloudy is later. 🛏 Plus I don’t want to be shit tired 💩 come Monday at work as there is much to do. Sherburne and the Rogers Environmental Education Center is always nice.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:47 pm with sun having an altitude of 37.4° from the due south horizon (-33.2° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 7.8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:36 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (251°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (257°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 6:15 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 59 seconds with dusk around 6:42 pm, which is one minute and 35 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the west-southwest (238°) at an altitude of 9° from the horizon, 227,276 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 7:16 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 53 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 14 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 54 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 47 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 45 degrees at 6am. Seven degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 2nd. South wind 13 to 15 mph. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 36 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1974.

I am a bit concerned it might be a very cold night ❄ with the wind if I stay one more night. Plus then it’s going to be a long trip back if a leave at quarter to seven in the morning – before sunrise 🌅. I might be a lot better off to stay until four pm this afternoon and drive home in daylight, maximize what I can before it gets dark out. That way I’ll get a good night’s sleep and be prepared for tomorrow.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until November 🥧 when the sun will be setting at 4:53 pm with dusk at 5:22 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2019, we had cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 70 and 42 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 54 degrees. We hit a record high of 78 back in 1950.