Good evening! Misty 🌫 and 56 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a north breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 55 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 10 am.

Not a half bad evening 🌃, went for my evening walk 🚶🏻 and it wasn’t bad despite the mist and fog. 🌫 Worked fairly late in the office 🏢 but I was home early enough for my walk. I really don’t mind working downtown although for a few seconds I thought I might have missed the 7:30 pm bus 🚍 home but it worked out fine.

So oddly quiet downtown at 7:30 catching the bus home. 🚏 Albany has long been a a 9-5 city but with the bars still all shut and the hotels shuttered 🏩 everything is so dead downtown but I guess the same can be said mid day too. There is a lot of talk about reopening state offices soon 🏢 but I just don’t see it happening with the pandemic ramping back up. I’m sure you saw that article I shared earlier about Coronavirus being widespread in Connecticut and New Jersey now – its getting bad in parts of Southern Tier New York again too.

Tonight will have a slight chance of showers. Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 52 degrees at 3am. 14 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 16th. Maximum dew point of 55 at 10pm. North wind around 6 mph becoming calm after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2019, we had patches of fog in the evening, which became mist by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 43 degrees. The record low of 17 occurred back in 1972.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon with 23% illuminated. The Blue 🌝 Moon is on Saturday, October 31. The darkest hour is at 12:41 am, followed by dawn at 6:47 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:16 am in the east-southeast (104°) and last for 2 minutes and 59 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 12 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:54 am with sun in the east-southeast (110°). Tonight will have 13 hours and 11 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 44 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of showers between 11am and noon, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny , with a high of 73 degrees at 3pm. 15 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 15th. Maximum dew point of 62 at 2pm. South wind 6 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, which became light rain by afternoon. The high last year was 60 degrees. The record high of 81 was set in 1979. 0.2 inches of snow fell back in 1926.❄

Upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 20.04, which is necessary as they are no longer supporting 18.04. 💻 The long term support versions of Ubuntu are good for 2 1/2 years of updates but eventually you need to update to the new version 📂. Unfortunately I’m having problems with getting the sound working but I’ll figure that out tomorrow.

In four weeks on November 17 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (244°) at 4:30 pm (Standard Time),🌄 which is one hour, 34 minutes and one second earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had cold, partly cloudy and temperatures between 38 and 17 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 47 and 31 degrees. The record high of 73 degrees was set back in 1928.

Looking ahead, Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 2 weeks, Average High is 50 🍂 is in 3 weeks, December 🎄 is in 6 weeks, Bill of Rights Day 📜 is in 8 weeks, Days are Getting Longer ☀️ is in 9 weeks, Cold Moon 🌕 is in 10 weeks, National Bird Day 🐧 is in 11 weeks, Inauguration Day ✅ is in 3 months, 5:30 PM Dusk 🌆 is in 14 weeks, Ground Hog Day 🐻 is in 15 weeks and 5:30 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 4 months.