Good morning! Happy Sunday. Two weeks to Daylight Savings Time Ends 🛥️. Snow showers and 34 degrees in North Syracuse. ❄ First snow of the year. Not a big deal, but feels chilly with the breeze. There is a northwest breeze at 11 mph. 🍃. Cool morning but not enough to make things freeze or stick to the roads. Just light fluffy things coming out of the sky Temperatures will drop below freezing at Thursday around 1 am. ☃️

Today will have snow showers before 11am, then a chance of rain and snow showers between 11am and 1pm, then a slight chance of rain showers after 1pm. Mostly cloudy ☔ , with a high of 39 degrees at 2pm. 19 degrees below normal. Northwest wind 11 to 14 mph. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible on the grass, at least in the colder spots. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies with more clouds in the afternoon. The high last year was 74 degrees. The record high of 81 was set in 1979. 0.2 inches of snow fell back in 1926.❄

The sun will set at 6:11 pm with dusk around 6:39 pm, which is one minute and 33 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain ☁ and 38 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 11 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 45 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 47 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of snow showers, mainly after midnight. Mostly cloudy ❄ , with a low of 34 degrees at 6am. Four degrees below normal. West wind 6 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. In 2017, we had mostly cloudy skies, clearing in the early hours of the next day. It got down to 40 degrees. The record low of 20 occurred back in 1959.

I’ve been watching the 3 week outlook and I’m increasingly concerned about the North Atlantic Oscillation starting to go further negative. It’s starting to look like the first half of November may be bitterly cold and maybe even a bit snowy or rainy. 🌨 That certainly wouldn’t be good for my road trip, especially the snow part. I guess i could do the National Forest for several days, as I believe Potomac Road is maintained year round, but I still don’t want to deal with snow or ice, much less cold rainy days if I can avoid it. I don’t mind the cold so much, although wind can be very cold to camp. 🏕 It will be still nice to be away from it all.

There are 16 days, 11 hours and 35 minutes until the poll close on Election Day in New York. 🗳 It keeps getting closer every day. I wonder when I will get my absentee ballot. It would be nice to be able to vote sooner then later. To be fair, I didn’t send my absentee application in until sometime last week, so many not arrive right away. 📜 It’s also possible that it didn’t get sent to here but my home address, so I’ll have to wait to see if it arrives in the mail. 📤

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Daylight Savings Time Ends 🌇 when the sun will be setting at 4:51 pm with dusk at 5:21 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2017, we had partly cloudy skies and temperatures between 50 and 33 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 53 degrees. We hit a record high of 76 back in 1994.

Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Three weeks to Election Day 2018 🗳️. I wonder when I’ll get my absentee ballot so I can register my protest vote? Partly cloudy and 45 degrees in up here in Clay. ⛅ The sun seems to be clearing out. There is a west-southwest breeze at 11 mph. 🍃. Kind of chilly, especially with the breeze. Maybe today wasn’t a good day to go short-sleeved. I really need to get more long-sleeved shorts. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Thursday around 5 am. ☃️

I wanted to get out for a morning walk, but that didn’t happen. 😲 I couldn’t get in the bathroom in time, the weather didn’t look all that well, and when I got in the office, I ended up having a cup off coffee or two and got kind of busy. ☕ But so be it. I’ll try to get out on my lunch break and do some walking. On Friday, I’ll probably come into work to do some hiking. Maybe back down to Labrador Hollow, I liked that hike the other day. I should also try to get down to Green Lakes at some point to see the autumn color, although honestly I’ve been there a lot lately, and it seems like at least in the Syracuse area color is pretty limited.🍂

Partly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny 🌞 , with a high of 53 degrees at 2pm. Seven degrees below normal. West wind 11 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies. The high last year was 60 degrees. The record high of 88 was set in 1947. There was a dusting of snow in 2009.❄ You know, I don’t remember that snow much. It must have been a while back — almost a decade has come and gone since 2009. Welcome to the future. It will be 2030 before you know it. That’s why it’s so important to save for the future, especially if the economy becomes more destabilized as we march towards a even larger quantities of carbon in the atmosphere, says the boy with the big jacked up truck.

The sun will set at 6:19 pm with dusk around 6:48 pm, which is one minute and 37 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies ⛅ and 49 degrees. There will be a west-southwest breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 58 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 50 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly after 5am. Mostly cloudy ☁, with a low of 44 degrees at 4am. Four degrees above normal. Southwest wind 8 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2017, we had partly cloudy skies, clearing in the early hours of the next day. It got down to 31 degrees. The record low of 21 occurred back in 1940.

There are 21 days, 11 hours and 55 minutes until the poll close on Election Day in New York. 🗳It can’t come soon enough in my perspective. And heck, I am not even really following politics although I listened to the 538 podcast last night before bed, and I certainly hear from a lot of people who are a lot more passionate about politics then I am.

Did I mention that today is pay day? End of the day, though. Okay, that makes me happy. 💵 I have a certificate of deposit that is expiring in the next few weeks, and I will roll it into a larger higher-interest probably in the next few weeks. While I’m continuing to buy more index funds, I think things are still well overpriced, especially as some point values will depress for a while during the next recession.

Still thinking about what my November trip will be like. i am leaning towards visiting Chimney Point State Park as part of vacation, as it’s really a pretty good trip from Syracuse, and I want more time to explore it without being bothered by work stuff.🚶Probably would drive down to the Finger Lakes National Forest, although I really have to watch the clock, because that point the sun will be setting around 4:45 PM and I don’t want to drive in the dark, even though my headlights are much better on my truck then they used to be..

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Election Day 2018 🗳️ when the sun will be setting at 4:49 pm with dusk at 5:19 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2017, we had rain, mist, cloudy skies and temperatures between 63 and 42 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 52 degrees. We hit a record high of 73 back in 2015.