Good morning! Happy Sunday. Two weeks to Daylight Savings Time Ends 🛥️. Snow showers and 34 degrees in North Syracuse. ❄ First snow of the year. Not a big deal, but feels chilly with the breeze. There is a northwest breeze at 11 mph. 🍃. Cool morning but not enough to make things freeze or stick to the roads. Just light fluffy things coming out of the sky Temperatures will drop below freezing at Thursday around 1 am. ☃️

Today will have snow showers before 11am, then a chance of rain and snow showers between 11am and 1pm, then a slight chance of rain showers after 1pm. Mostly cloudy ☔ , with a high of 39 degrees at 2pm. 19 degrees below normal. Northwest wind 11 to 14 mph. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible on the grass, at least in the colder spots. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies with more clouds in the afternoon. The high last year was 74 degrees. The record high of 81 was set in 1979. 0.2 inches of snow fell back in 1926.❄

The sun will set at 6:11 pm with dusk around 6:39 pm, which is one minute and 33 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain ☁ and 38 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 11 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 45 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 47 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of snow showers, mainly after midnight. Mostly cloudy ❄ , with a low of 34 degrees at 6am. Four degrees below normal. West wind 6 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. In 2017, we had mostly cloudy skies, clearing in the early hours of the next day. It got down to 40 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1959.

I’ve been watching the 3 week outlook and I’m increasingly concerned about the North Atlantic Oscillation starting to go further negative. It’s starting to look like the first half of November may be bitterly cold and maybe even a bit snowy or rainy. 🌨 That certainly wouldn’t be good for my road trip, especially the snow part. I guess i could do the National Forest for several days, as I believe Potomac Road is maintained year round, but I still don’t want to deal with snow or ice, much less cold rainy days if I can avoid it. I don’t mind the cold so much, although wind can be very cold to camp. 🏕 It will be still nice to be away from it all.

There are 16 days, 11 hours and 35 minutes until the poll close on Election Day in New York. 🗳 It keeps getting closer every day. I wonder when I will get my absentee ballot. It would be nice to be able to vote sooner then later. To be fair, I didn’t send my absentee application in until sometime last week, so many not arrive right away. 📜 It’s also possible that it didn’t get sent to here but my home address, so I’ll have to wait to see if it arrives in the mail. 📤

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Daylight Savings Time Ends 🌇 when the sun will be setting at 4:51 pm with dusk at 5:21 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2017, we had partly cloudy skies and temperatures between 50 and 33 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 53 degrees. We hit a record high of 76 back in 1994.