Good morning! What day is it? Hump Day, of course. After a cloudy start this morning, it is now sunny and 57 degrees in North Syracuse. Calm wind. The dew point is 53 degrees. Certainly a nice autumn morning.

Earlier this morning, I went out for a walk at Green Lakes State Park. Explored some more of the trails, and this time traffic wasn’t too bad. A little more color today, but not that great. Still have a while for peak colors — I am not sure if it will happen by Columbus Day or the week after. I had been going down to Onondaga Lake, but Green Lakes really works out to be about the same distance when you consider the lighter traffic and higher speeds you have on Interstate 481. Change is good too, as it gets boring hiking the same way every day.

Today will be sunny, with a high of 72 degrees at 3pm. Eight degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 54 at 11am. East wind 3 to 6 mph. The record high of 91 was set in 1941. The sun will set at 6:37 pm with dusk around 7:05 pm, which is 1 minutes and 44 seconds earlier than yesterday. Today will have 11 hours and 29 minutes of daylight, a decrease of 2 minutes and 53 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be clear, with a low of 50 degrees at 6am. Seven degrees above normal. Southeast wind 3 to 5 mph. The record low of 24 occurred back in 1965.

On this day in 1982 was the start of the Chicago Tylenol murders. Johnson & Johnson initiates a nationwide product recall in the United States for all products in its Tylenol brand after several bottles in Chicago are found to have been laced with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths. Yuck. Now most pre-packaged medicine comes with a sealed cap to prevent people from tampering with Tylenol and other over-the-counter drugs.

And in 1966 in Detroit, there was a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.

There are 1 weeks until Yom Kippur when the sun will be setting at 6:25 pm with dusk at 6:53 pm. The average high temperature is 61 degrees, with a record high of 85 in 1954.