Good evening and Good Bye October! 🍂 The cold and often quite gray season of November is just around the corner. Rain and 56 degrees in North Syracuse. ☔ There is a west breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. Kind of a drizzling evening driving home although with the headlights properly adjusted and the fog lights on it wasn’t too bad. The skies will clear Sunday around 5 am.

I thought today was a productive, good day. 😎 If all goes well, in a week I will be back home once again sleeping in my own bed. I’m happy about that. 💤 Then a nice week long road trip which should be quite nice. Assuming of course that the weather cooperates. The 8-14 day outlook keeps changing.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly after 5am. Cloudy ☁, with a low of 46 degrees at 6am. 11 degrees above normal. West wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2017, we had mostly cloudy skies with some clearing in the early hours of the next day. It got down to 34 degrees. The record low of 22 occurred back in 1964.

Tonight will have a Waning Crescent Moon 🌘 with 44% illuminated with the moon rising at 12:18 am. The moon will rise at 1:00 am. The New Moon is on Tuesday night. The Beaver Moon 🌝 is on Thursday, November 22nd. The sun will rise at 7:39 am with the first light at 7:09 am, which is one minute and 16 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 13 hours and 43 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 38 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers before 9am, then rain, mainly after 9am. ☔ High of 47 degrees at 1pm. Seven degrees below normal. Light northwest wind. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. I’m really tired of these dreary, rainy, cold days. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies. The high last year was 49 degrees. The record high of 78 was set in 1950. 3.9 inches of snow fell back in 1951.❄

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, a chance of showers. Cloudy, with a high near 44. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Yuck. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 50. Cool but sunny. I’m not complaining. Typical average high for the weekend is 53 degrees.

I am still hoping for a nice early Sunday morning hike, 🏃either along the Erie Canal or maybe Green Lakes. I don’t expect to be back out in the Syracuse area for a long time after this weekend. But it’s been a fun time, even if lately it seems like the weather has been so dreary.

The time change will be nice with the extra sunshine in the morning, 🕐 but I’m hardly thrilled about having to go home in the darkness, especially the dark bus ride home on the Delmar bypass. But this happens every November and December. Kind of makes for a nice long evening camping and enjoying cooking over the fire or the campstove. 🍳

In four weeks on November 28 the sun will be setting at 4:31 pm (Standard Time),🌄 which is one hour, 25 minutes and 36 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2017 on that day, we had mostly sunny skies and temperatures between 45 and 18 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 43 and 28 degrees. The record high of 68 degrees was set back in 1990.

Looking ahead, Day After Election Day 🛀 is in 1 weeks, Boxing Day 🥊 is in 8 weeks, New Years Eve 🎆 is in 2 months and Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 116 weeks.