Day: October 10, 2017💾

This Friday is the 6:15 PM sunset. Then a little over three weeks from then the time will change. Eight weeks until we reach the earliest sunset of the year, with the sunsets slowly but surely starting to get later after that point.

Upcoming Sunsets:

6:15 pm sunset – Friday, October 13
6:00 pm sunset – Sunday, October 22
5:45 pm sunset – Thursday, November 2
Standard Time Begins – Sunset on Sunday, November 5 is at 4:42 pm
4:30 pm sunset – Friday, November 17
Earliest Sunset – Saturday, December 9 at 4:22 pm
4:30 pm sunset – Wednesday, December 27
4:45 pm sunset – Friday, January 12
5:00 pm sunset – Wednesday, January 24
5:15 pm sunset – Sunday, February 4
5:30 pm sunset – Friday, February 16

Good morning! Mostly blue skies and 65 degrees on our way up to 74. Going to be a pretty nice autumn day with only a touch of humidity. That’s good because I just got done last night scrubbing down the mildew last night  that seemed to pop up overnight due to the hot and humid October weather. 

I was running a bit late this morning so I decided to take the local bus to work, which was running about 15 minutes late. So much for getting into the office early this morning. That’s fine, I don’t expect too hectic of a week today. 

The sun will set at 6:20 pm with dusk around 6:48 pm, which is one minute and 41 seconds earlier than yesterday. At sunset, look for mostly clear conditions and 70 degrees. The dew point will be 57 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 9 mph. Should be a pleasant evening even if it is dark at 6:20. Today will have 11 hours and 16 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 50 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy, with a low of 53 degrees at 5am. 12 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 57 at 6pm. Northwest wind 5 to 8 mph. In 2016, we had clear skies. It got down to 33 degrees. The record low of 22 occurred back in 1943.

It looks like a good weekend is coming up, but I am going to hold off on any decisions until it gets a little closer. Sometimes it better just to take things one day at a time. Things change too quickly around here lately. 

By the end of the month or early November I need to get a state inspection and an oil change. Probably also will get my tires rotated too. I almost want to postpone this until November as it would be a lot easier to do it going forward. My oil change might be a little early but I’m not going to do it myself anymore because I always have trouble getting lose the filter and finding the right synthetic oil. 

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Election Day 2017 when the sun will be setting at 4:40 pm with dusk at 5:09 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2016, we had mostly sunny skies and temperatures between 53 and 28 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 51 degrees. We hit a record high of 75 back in 1938.