Good evening! Partly cloudy and 60 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌃 Calm wind. The dew point is 54 degrees.

It’s a nice evening 🌃 with the half 🌗 moon setting in the west. It almost feels like a summer night out back with the crickets 🦗 singing 🎶 and I’m listening to the final presidential debate. 🎤 🧓 Honestly not much of substance in the debate not that it matters much to me as I’ve already voted. 🗳

I went for my evening walk 🚶🏻 after a busy day working at the library. 📚 I’m still working on getting my GIS database to work on the new version of Ubuntu I upgraded my laptop to. That said I now have the latest version of Open Street Map 🗺 for making future maps.

I put away my camping gear ⛺ so no camping this weekend because Saturday looks rainy and I’m kind of busy with work. I did however get the extra mantles 🏮 for the lantern so I can do another real good cleaning of the lantern before the next time I go camping. I am thinking a Halloween 🦇 weekend trip 🎃 would be fun if the weather cooperates. Full 🌕 moon then.

Tonight will have patchy fog after midnight. Otherwise, mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 56 degrees at 12am. 19 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 5th. Maximum dew point of 56 at 6am. Light and variable wind. In 2019, we had rain in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 38 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1969.

Tonight will have a First Quarter 🌓 Moon with 43% illuminated. At 9 PM, the moon was in the southwest (216°) at an altitude of 15° from the horizon, some 236,134 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 19^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The moon will set in the west-southwest (237°) at 10:55 pm. The Blue 🌝 Moon is on Saturday, October 31. The darkest hour is at 12:40 am, followed by dawn at 6:49 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:18 am in the east-southeast (105°) and last for 3 minutes Sunrise is one minute and 13 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:57 am with sun in the east-southeast (111°). Tonight will have 13 hours and 17 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 44 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 69 degrees at 3pm. 12 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 24th. Maximum dew point of 59 at 10am. South wind 6 to 13 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 64 degrees. The record high of 81 was set in 1947. 0.5 inches of snow fell back in 2002.❄

Another really nice day tomorrow, 👍🏻 which is good because winter will be here before you know it. But I figure enjoy it while I still can.

In four weeks on November 19 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (244°) at 4:29 pm (Standard Time),🌄 which is one hour, 32 minutes and 32 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mist and temperatures between 38 and 34 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 47 and 31 degrees. The record high of 71 degrees was set back in 1921.

Looking ahead, Thanksgiving 🦃 is in 5 weeks, 7:15 AM Sunrise ⌛️ is in 7 weeks, Days are Getting Longer ☀️ is in 2 months, Christmas Eve 🎅 is in 9 weeks, New Years Eve 🎆 is in 10 weeks, Coldest Week of the Year 🌬 is in 12 weeks, Wolf Moon 🌕 is in 14 weeks, Don’t Cry over Spilled Milk Day 🥛 is in 16 weeks and National Drink Wine Day 🍷 is in 17 weeks.