Good morning! Happy Average High is 55 🍂! Much colder than that the next few days. We are looking at a few inches of snow 🌨, the wet sloppy kind the next few days. Next Wednesday is the Day After Election Day 🚿If you haven’t voted by then you’ll have to the start of the Early Vote period in mid June 2021. I wonder if we will be wearing masks when we vote then. 😷 At least the lines shouldn’t be so long for the local Early Vote. ❎ Rain and 41 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔Calm wind. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Friday around 6 am. ☃️ We might get some snow come Friday morning, but I think it will be more of a nuisance snow, more glob then anything else.

I decided to catch the bus 🚍 downtown and work in the office 🏢 today. It didn’t seem like a really good day to be working down at the library parking lot 📚 and my apartment is cold and damp as I’ve not turned on the heat. Plus I expect with the clouds and dark skies, the under voltage relay would tripping ⚡ on the load of the laptop. Plus I’m thinking 💭 it best to get in the habit of going to work because I expect soon I’ll be working downtown full time again.

Today will have showers likely, mainly before 9am. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny 🌦, with a high of 52 degrees at 3pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 5th. Southwest wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 60 degrees. The record high of 78 was set in 1971. 2.0 inches of snow fell back in 1952.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:40 pm with sun having an altitude of 34.1° from the due south horizon (-36.8° vs. 6/21). No sun today. A six foot person will cast a 8.9 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:15 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 5:54 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 2 seconds with dusk around 6:22 pm, which is one minute and 23 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see a nearly Full 🌝 Moon in the east-southeast (106°) at an altitude of 14° from the horizon, 250,852 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:57 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 52 degrees. There will be a southwest breeze at 6 mph. Tomorrow will have 10 hours and 25 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 36 seconds over today.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌃 , with a low of 39 degrees at 5am. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 18th. Southwest wind around 5 mph. In 2019, we had clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 53 degrees. The record low of 19 occurred back in 1969.

In 1956, Elvis Presley receives a polio vaccination on national TV. 💉This single event is credited with raising immunization levels in the United States from 0.6% to over 80% in just six months. The polio virus was scary but science helped combat it. 🤓 There is still some hope for mankind. Hopefully the national nightmare will be over in six months as the orange man packs 📦 up his bags.

Sunny and cold this weekend. 🌞 Saturday, sunny, with a high near 45. Sunday, a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 53. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Typical average high for the weekend is 54 degrees. I am still chewing over my weekend plans – but a lot depends on how much snow they get in Brookfield this week and how early the storm pulls out. It does look  nice, but who knows, and I’ll probably be quite busy with work.

As previously noted, next Wednesday is Day After Election Day 🛀 when the sun will be setting at 4:44 pm with dusk at 5:13 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2019, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 51 and 29 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 53 degrees. We hit a record high of 76 back in 1994.