Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Final Tuesday in October. 🎃 Next Tuesday is Election Day 2020 🗳️. Easy to forget if you don’t own one of those colored televisions. 📺 I probably should return my absentee ballot 🗳 soon. Certainly post mark it by next Tuesday.

Mostly because I want a check ☑ box next to two ought two ought on my buff card 💳. Not like there are competive elections locally. I am still hoping to drop it off at the Early Vote site to save the 55 cents, if the crowds taper off. While there may be a separate drop off box 🗃, I don’t want to be in crowds during a pandemic. 👾I figure my government file 📂 is big enough, might as well have some good things in it. I’m not hopeful at dropping the ballot off today, the line is over 500 feet before 9 o’clock. 👨‍👩‍👦👨‍👩‍👧‍👧👨‍👨‍👧‍👦👨‍👧‍👧👩‍👩‍👦

Mostly cloudy and 45 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ There is a northwest breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Friday around 9 pm. ☃️

Out for my morning walk. 🚶🏻 Rain has stopped and it’s a pretty nice day. Colors in the mountains are faded. ⛰ After my walk I’m going to take a quick shower 🚿 and then head downtown 🚍 for the Tuesday meetings 👥 and work sessions. Honestly it’s nice to have a real desk 🖥 to work at especially with it being so cold and damp to work down at the library parking lot. 🅿.

Today will have a slight chance of showers after 3pm. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 52 degrees at 2pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 5th. Northwest wind 5 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. The high last year was 54 degrees. The record high of 79 was set in 1963. 1.7 inches of snow fell back in 2016.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:40 pm with sun having an altitude of 34.4° from the due south horizon (-36.4° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 8.8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:16 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (246°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (253°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:56 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 2 seconds with dusk around 6:23 pm, which is one minute and 24 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the east-southeast (118°) at an altitude of 18° from the horizon, 249,219 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:58 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 49 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 5 mph. Tomorrow will have 10 hours and 28 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 37 seconds over today.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly between 7pm and 10pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 38 degrees at 6am. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 22nd. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 45 degrees. The record low of 18 occurred back in 1974.

Governor Ronald Reagan in 1964 delivers a speech on behalf of the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launches his political career and comes to be known as “A Time for Choosing”. 👴🏻 🎤👨🏻‍💼 Honestly much of the kookiness that was Goldwater grafted on to Billy Fuscillo became Trump. Biden is a throw back to an earlier era but I expect he’s competent and probably will be a power broker with all his experience in the Senate. I do hope Trump loses even though I don’t like Biden being unchecked.

Going to be cold but fairly sunny this weekend. ❄ Saturday, sunny, with a high near 46. Sunday, a chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 54. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Typical average high for the weekend is 54 degrees.

I am thinking about going out to Brookfield this weekend to hunt 🐇🐿️and camp ⛺ but it depends on how much snow we get 🌨 as I am not ready to deal with icy and salt covered roads yet. Might be fun but cold though camping out on Halloween 🦇 🎃 👻 under a blue moon. 🌕 Maybe get candy 🍬 so I can give out to the kids that don’t stop by in the wilderness. But candy is good to eat 😋 and watch the wrappers burn up in fire 🔥.

As previously noted, next Tuesday is Election Day 2020 🗳️ when the sun will be setting at 4:45 pm with dusk at 5:14 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2019, we had partly sunny, rain showers and temperatures between 53 and 30 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 53 degrees. We hit a record high of 75 back in 1990.