Good morning! Yeah, it’s Friday! Tomorrow starts the autumn road trip, 🍂 which was perfectly planned until it wasn’t. I guess you can over plan life. It’s really silly 😋 to get all stressed out by a plan. I can just drive and I’ll end up somewhere in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or Western NY. Four weeks to November 🥧. Partly cloudy and 50 degrees in Bethlehem, NY. ⛅ There is a northwest breeze at 9 mph. 🍃.

I am really struggling on the trip plan, but after reviewing the evidence, I’ll probably go out to Allegheny National Forest for the weekend, and then either head north to Cattaragaus County and small-game hunt 🐿️ and hike up there, or maybe go down to West Virginia for a few days, if they get some rain and the drought weakens.🔥 I guess I don’t really need to have a fire when I’m down there, but the dust on the dirt roads might not be nice, 🌪 especially when your trying to drink coffee in camp. ☕ But while I’m in the Alleghany National Forest, especially when it’s raining, going to have some nice fires. And I’ll figure it out one day at a time.

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 57 degrees at 4pm. Eight degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 22nd. Maximum dew point of 46 at 8am. North wind 9 to 15 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. It became humid as the day progressed. The high last year was 72 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 1891. 6.5 inches of snow fell back in 1987.❄

The sun will set at 6:32 pm with dusk around 7:00 pm, which is one minute and 44 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 54 degrees. There will be a north-northwest breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 11 hours and 36 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 51 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have areas of frost after 5am. Otherwise, mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 34 degrees at 6am. Nine degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 4th. North wind 3 to 8 mph. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 46 degrees. The record low of 26 occurred back in 1965.

Tomorrow will have areas of frost before 9am. Otherwise, sunny 🌞, with a high of 60 degrees at 3pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 15th. Light and variable wind. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. It became humid as the day progressed. The high last year was 61 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 1941.

Looking ahead to Sunday, a chance of showers, mainly after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 65. South wind 8 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. ☔ Maximum dew point of 56 at 9pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 64 degrees.

Tonight I will go to the laundromat 👕 and then maybe to Delmar hardware to see if I can get a small shovel to use as a good shovel for burying poop and other organic waste up at camp. 🥄 I don’t want something too big, but I need a better camp shovel then my trowel, so I can get my poop 💩 dug deeper and be able to do more camp projects — I might want to dig a few places for the rain to drain out, as it’s going to pretty wet at camp on Sunday into Monday. 🌧 I so hate finding toilet paper in the woods, 🧻 the only thing worse is finding broken glass. 🥃

I also need to stop somewhere and get more lantern mantles. 🏮 Probably Walmart in Oneonta is the easier thing for that. I also need firewood,🎋 I’ll get the bagged stuff, especially if I’m driving all the way to Allegheny National Forest after visiting some state parks, being October, it will probably be close to dark by the time I set up camp, if not already dark.🌃

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until November 🥧 when the sun will be setting at 5:48 pm with dusk at 6:17 pm. On that day in 2018, we had rain showers, mostly cloudy and temperatures between 59 and 48 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 54 degrees. We hit a record high of 78 back in 1950.