Good evening! Rain and 61 degrees at the Allegheny National Forest. ☔ There is a southwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 59 degrees. Despite the rain, it’s a fairly mild evening. It looks like West Virginia is getting hit by a lot of rain tonight – even more than here and thats a good thing – they need it badly. The skies will clear Tuesday around 1 am.

Today I mostly stayed around camp ⛺, reading a book about agriculture in America. 📖 I don’t remember the name of the book and I’m not interested in going out in the rain to look at it. Read it cover to cover, it was an interesting book.

Later in the evening I went for a walk 🚶 along the Elijah Bike Trail up to Coal Knob. While the Coal Knob tower 🗼 is long gone it is pretty with the Pitch Pine on the summit. It turned out to be a five plus mile walk, through a variety of forests.

Rain held off for the most part until 8:30 💦 and I laid back in the hammock for a while before having to take it down for the rain. A mild evening, I am now sitting tarp although I let the fire go down 🔥 to save wood for tomorrow and because I don’t know how much longer I’ll stay up. I might start up the truck a bit to top off the batteries before bed. 😴

Tonight will rain. Patchy fog after 4am. 🌧 Low of 53 degrees at 6am. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 23rd. Southwest wind around 6 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. In 2018, we had cloudy skies. It became humid as the night progressed. It got down to 52 degrees. The record low of 27 occurred back in 1986.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous Moon 🌔 with 72% illuminated with the moon setting at 12:39 am. The moon will set at 1:00 am. The 🌕 is on Saturday night with mostly clear skies. The sun will rise at 7:18 am with the first light at 6:50 am, which is one minute and 6 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 12 hours and 29 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 46 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will rain, mainly before 10am. Patchy fog before 10am. 🌧 High of 56 degrees at 2pm. Six degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 22nd. Maximum dew point of 51 at 6am. 🏖️ Calm wind becoming west 5 to 8 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning, which became light rain by afternoon. The high last year was 72 degrees. The record high of 89 was set in 1963.

If it’s too cold and wet in the morning, I’ll head into the tent next to the heater with a book and hang out there maybe with a cup of coffee. ☕

In four weeks on November 3 the sun will be setting at 5:08 pm (Standard Time),🌄 which is one hour, 41 minutes and 35 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had rain and temperatures between 57 and 41 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 53 and 35 degrees. The record high of 75 degrees was set back in 1990.

Looking ahead, Average High is 60 🍂 is in 1 week, Daylight Savings Time Ends 🛥️ is in 4 weeks, Day After Election Day 🛀 is a month away, Average High is 50 🍂 is in 5 weeks, December 🎄 is in 8 weeks, Saint Nicholas Day 🎅 is in 2 months, Bill of Rights Day 📜 is in 10 weeks, Days are Getting Longer ☀️ is in 11 weeks, National Pie Day 🍰 is in 15 weeks, and the 5:30 PM Dusk 🌆 returns in 16 weeks.