Good evening! Mostly clear and 40 degrees in North Syracuse.🌌 Calm wind.

It’s actually a really nice evening after a really nice weather wise day for a change, 😎 although it was a busy day so I was trapped all day in the office, only escaping long enough to get a can of some kind of Chef Boy-r-dee from my truck.🍛 I think I could see the stars through the suburbanite streetlights. 🌃 I’m so sick and tired of being kind of missing my autumn. In a week though, it will all be just a memory. Hopefully a good one.

Tonight will have increasing clouds , ☁ with a low of 39 degrees at 11pm. Four degrees above normal. Calm wind becoming southeast around 5 mph after midnight. 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 18 occurred back in 1988.

Tonight will is the Last Quarter Moon with 56% illuminated. The moon will set at 2:14 pm. The Last Quarter Moon will be tonight with showers. The Beaver Moon 🌝 is on Thursday, November 22nd. The sun will rise at 7:37 am with the first light at 7:08 am, which is one minute and 17 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 13 hours and 40 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 37 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have some breaks of sun then showers, mainly after 2pm. High of 59 degrees at 2pm. 💧 Five degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 52 at 4pm. 🏖️ Southwest wind 7 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies, clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 54 degrees. The record high of 73 was set in 1946. 0.1 inches of snow fell back in 1913.❄

Lately I’ve just become more and more discontented with the suburbanite lifestyle that I see every day on television and my travels for work. 🏡 I’m making the good middle class income now but I don’t want marble countertops or vinyl siding, I’d rather save and invest and have something much more modest with lots of land paid in cash. I know I say that a lot here, but I’m just so discontented with the suburbanite, disposable lifestyle with the big fancy houses. Give me back my mildewy, run down apartment, public transit busses and my weekend adventures in the wilderness. 🚌 I just find so little of that other lifestyle appealing with the debt and the waste.

Maybe it’s just a reflection of having worked so many hours for nearly fifty daywin a place far from home,😴 but these suburbs really aren’t a place I’d ever want to set down roots.🌲The quite rural Oswego County to the north and parts of the southern half of the county are nice but I have nothing good to say about the big suburbs and their fancy houses.

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 48. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 50. Typical average high for the weekend is 53 degrees. Sunday sounds really nice and with the time change if I get up really early, maybe I’ll be able to get some fresh air before work. Doubt though that I’ll have time to head down to Labrador Hollow one more time. Maybe during my November road trip in a little over a week? 🚗 Although finding a place to camp nearby there is kind of difficult and I’m thinking about a more northerly route for this year’s trip, including visiting Chimney Bluffs State Park.

In four weeks on November 27 the sun will be setting at 4:31 pm (Standard Time),🌄 which is one hour, 26 minutes and 30 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2017 on that day, we had rain, snow, partly cloudy skies and temperatures between 43 and 23 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 43 and 28 degrees. The record high of 66 degrees was set back in 1896. Depending how much snow we get in November, I may do some late season camping and hunting on NY 8 over the Thanksgiving weekend. ⛺There’s that one site that has lots of clearing for solar power, has marginal but working cellphone reception and is near hiking trails to boot. But not if it’s snowy or another hunting party had taken it. 🐻

Looking ahead, Election Day 2018 🗳️ is in 1 week, Average Night Below Freezing 🌌 is in 2 weeks, Christmas 🎅 is in 8 weeks, New Years Day 2019 🎉 is in 9 weeks, 36th Birthday 🎉 is in 13 weeks and Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 105 weeks. The year is rapidly coming to a close. Almost time to say Goodbye 2018. Tomorrow is the final day of October. 🍂