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February 15, 2023 Evening

Good evening! Clear and 58 degrees for evening walk in Delmar, NY. 🌃 There is a south breeze at 11 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 41 degrees. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Friday around 4 pm. ☃️

Not a half bad evening for February. 🌟 The skies are full of stars and it’s quite mild. It was nice having the windows open today and enjoying some fresh air before it gets cold again after the rain tomorrow. ☔ Then cold come Friday but bouncing back to normal by the weekend. After my walk I’ll sit out back until nine. 🛏 Going to close my windows then bed time.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 41 degrees at 6am. 23 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 25th. South wind 7 to 11 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Too good to be true, won’t last. In 2022, we had light snow in the evening, which became mist by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 21 degrees. The record low of -20 occurred back in 1943.

Still enjoying the almost door to door service 🚏of the express Voorheesville bus. 🚍 Great on session days but also like tomorrow evening when it rains. ☔ That said, I do worry about not getting in as many steps 👣 without walking to the Park and Ride but on nice days I still can. I was happy 😊 to see somebody on the bus today actually coming from Voorheesville as I know the bus I take isn’t as popular as earlier but I hope it doesn’t get canceled right away as long as there are other riders.

Tonight will have a Waining Crescent 🌘 Moon with 22% illuminated. The Worm 🐛 Moon is on Friday, March 3. The darkest hour is at 12:10 am, followed by dawn at 6:25 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:54 am in the east-southeast (107°) and last for 3 minutes and 1 seconds.

It was a quiet 🤫 half of the day at work until a big project came in mid afternoon. Sometimes it’s so quiet and then so busy, 🖥 but when I have down time I try to use it well to analyze data, and learn new data science methods and sources of data. I’ve learned a lot of clever techniques to automate or at least speed up things at work. 👨‍⚖️ I might not be a PhD in data science but I’m learning some valuable techniques using R to mine a lot of value out of data.

Sunrise is one minute and 23 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:33 am with sun in the east-southeast (114°). Tonight will have 13 hours and 20 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 42 seconds over last night.

Today was such a nice day 🏢 but I was stuck in my office all day except when I went to the farmers market to get mushrooms 🍄 and did a short walk 🚶 on the Plaza. Got home and spent more time reading 📖 up about machine learning. 🤖 Too bad the weekend isn’t as good looking.

Tomorrow will have showers likely, mainly after 4pm. Increasing clouds 🌞 👉 🌥 , with a high of 55 degrees at 1pm. 19 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 6th. Northwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming light and variable in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had light snow in the morning, which became mist by afternoon. The high last year was 34 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 2006. 17.3 inches of snow fell back in 1958.❄

I decided that I can do my state taxes on paper 📄 to avoid paying to file. There is a few different open source things to compute my federal taxes, and then once they are done the state is easy to do. I like paper in the sense it’s easier to carefully review. I feel like the online services you spit too much of your information into a black box 🗃 and it spits it back out and you don’t really know if it’s done right. I can compare to last year – forms are the same but the numbers 🔢 now are just slightly higher or maybe not if I reduced things down enough by retirement plan deductions.

In four weeks on March 15 the sun will be setting in the west (268°) at 7:02 pm (Daylight Savings Time),🌄 which is one hour, 34 minutes and 29 seconds later then tonight. In 2021 on that day, we had cold, mostly sunny and temperatures between 30 and 11 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 45 and 26 degrees. The record high of 72 degrees was set back in 2019.

Looking ahead, March 🌨 is in two weeks on Wednesday, Ides of March ✝ is a month away, Tax Day 💰 is in 2 months, Average High is 70 🐮 is in 12 weeks, Pack Rat Day 🐀 is in 13 weeks, Summer ️⛱️ is in 18 weeks, Hottest Time of the Year 😅 is in 20 weeks, Dog Days of Summer 🌻 is in 20 weeks, Cow Appreciation Day 🐂 is in 5 months, Average High Falls To 79 ️Degrees ⛱️️️ is in 28 weeks, More Night then Day 🌌 is in 32 weeks, Last Sunset After 6:30 PM 🌆 is in 33 weeks, Average High is 55 🍂 is in 37 weeks, November 🥧 is in 37 weeks, Day After Election Day 🛀 is in 38 weeks, Saint Nicholas Day 🎅 is in 42 weeks and Bill of Rights Day 📜 is in 10 months.

February 14, 2023 Evening

Good evening! Happy Valentines Day Eve. February is halfway done and tomorrow is going to be warm enough to open up the windows and let some fresh air in. That makes me happy.

Mostly clear and 43 degrees for the evening walk 🚶 here in Delmar. 🌃 Calm wind. With those clear skies cooling off quickly. But it will rebound quickly tomorrow as we have our first real spring thaw.

I was pleasantly surprised that I got released at 5 o’clock on this Valentines Day ♥ and was able to take the express bus 🚍 home. It’s nice having that option on a session day though who knows how long it will last as there isn’t a lot of riders right now heading out to Slingerlands or Voorheesville at least not on 5 pm bus which is less popular than the earlier express bus. The thing is that some of the former riders retired and more people nowadays are able to do hybrid or work from home 🏡. Our department wants that option but the people up top say no. Getting hard though to be competitive without that option.

It was annoying this morning that the ramp to 787 was closed again. 🚧 I wish they could wait until the off hours or at least until the end of rush hour. I don’t understand their decision making process on that. To boot the express bus 🚍 was 20 minutes late due to the driver making a wrong term. I ended up walking 🚶 most of the way to the Park and Ride as I wanted to get more steps in and it was a very pleasant morning.

Tonight will have increasing clouds ☁, with a low of 31 degrees at 1am. 13 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 30th. Light and variable wind becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became light snow by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 17 degrees. The record low of -22 occurred back in 1943.

Got paid today 💵 and it looks like my bills aren’t as bad as I thought they would be. I might actually have a bit extra, I might start adding more to the savings account, the first time I’ve saved money in a year but interest rates are going up and I’m concerned more about mid range expenses.

Tonight will have a Waining Crescent 🌘 Moon with 33% illuminated. The Worm 🐛 Moon is on Thursday, March 2. The darkest hour is at 12:11 am, followed by dawn at 6:26 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:55 am in the east-southeast (107°) and last for 3 minutes and 2 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 21 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:35 am with sun in the east-southeast (114°). Tonight will have 13 hours and 23 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 40 seconds over last night.

Been really digging into the ins and outs of machine learning. 🤖 Lately I’ve been about better ways to target 🎯 and estimate voting patterns using election results and the enrollment rolls. It would be interesting if you could target based on actual past results and demographics. I have used imputation in the past for making maps and are considering other ways I could use machine learning to better understand data. Decision trees 🎄 and random forests are particularly interesting methods.

Tomorrow will be cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing 🌃, with a high of 58 degrees at 3pm. 22 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 12th. Breezy, with a south wind 13 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 23 degrees. The record high of 55 was set in 2006. 9.0 inches of snow fell back in 1894.❄

I think tomorrow will be a good day to have the windows open 🔳 and let all that fresh air in. 🍃 While I’ll probably only open windows without storm windows it should be nice to enjoy the fresh air.

In four weeks on March 14 the sun will be setting in the west (268°) at 7:01 pm (Daylight Savings Time),🌄 which is one hour, 34 minutes and 36 seconds later then tonight. In 2021 on that day, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 41 and 19 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 44 and 25 degrees. The record high of 75 degrees was set back in 1946.

Looking ahead, Average High is 40 ☀️ is Next Tuesday, First Day of Spring 💮 is in 5 weeks, Average High is 50 🌸 is in 6 weeks, Mothers Day 👩‍ is in 3 months, Primary Day 🗳️ is in 18 weeks, Independence Day 🇺🇸 is in 20 weeks, World Population Day 👩‍👩‍👧‍👧 is in 21 weeks, National Nude Day 👱 is in 5 months, August 🌻 is in 24 weeks, Halloween 🎃 is in 37 weeks, Average High is 50 🍂 is in 9 months, Election Day 🗳️ is in 9 months, Repeal of Prohibition Day 🍺 is in 42 weeks and Boxing Day 🥊 is in 45 weeks.

Starting Up the Spruceton Trail

Good Evening – August 15, 2021

Good evening! Sitting on the Kane Firetower waiting for the sun to set 🗼

Partly clear and 69 degrees at the Kane Mountain Firetower. Light breeze. The dew point is 51 degrees. A very clear evening 🌃 for sure, good for watching the sunset. With the low dew point I can easily see the other side of the Mohawk Valley including some of the silos on the Schoharie side. Also the wind turbines on the ridge outside of the Adirondack Park.

It’s been a nice weekend up north, ☺ with way too many beer boiled clams, sausage and sweet corn 🦪🍻🌽 and swimming 🏊🏻‍♂️ holes and about 25 miles of hiking – well over 15 miles was today alone. Camped at the House Pond Campsite 2 again. Today I hiked from Seeley Road in Knapville to Dexter Lake and then to Spectacle Lake and then to Waters Mill Pond. Then about two hours in the evening cooling off in the Potholers, followed by a sunset hike up Kane Mountain. Now to drive home by 10 pm.

Yesterday, I hiked back to House Pond which had a lot of blow down over parts of the trail. 🎋 There was a bad thunderstorm ⛈ in July that I remember seeing on the news 📰 that caused some big trees to come down, but at least it didn’t wash out the road much or if it did Stratford had already fixed it. Looks like they had to saw and remove multiple trees off Piseco-Powley Road that had came down it and I could hear them cutting downed trees at the hunting camp down the road and I saw them leaving with several pickup trucks full of wood.

Also yesterday I hiked along the Edick Road Snowmobile Trail and then back to Edick Road Campsite #1 out along the ledge overlooking the East Canada Creek, spotting a photographing a doe up close. 🦌 I climbed down the gorge wall and watched the various birds 🐦 in the grass lands along that grassy part of the river. Then more clams, corn and sausage. And back to Potholers.

Friday was even more lazy — it was fairly hot. Many hours reading and learning more about Python, 🐍 and then I hiked to Potholers. 🏊‍♀️ Then after I got back to camp, I swam at the swimming hole across the road from House Pond Campsite 2 until dusk, listening to a podcast, started a fire 🔥 had more clams, 🕹 laid back in hammock until it started to pour 🌧 and then hung out under the tarp as it rained some more listening to podcasts until 11 PM.

Thursday, was a rather late start because it was so humid and I was on vacation and was lazy. I screwed up and didn’t get my turn signal on time for Sandell Farm’s to get sweet corn, and ended up going to Rogers Orchard to get sweet corn and blueberries. 🍎 Then I ended up running to Wally World and forgetting the main reason I wanted to go there — to get coffee. ☕ I like the large coffee containers they have there not just because they are inexpensive on a per pound basis, they make great containers for making ice in for camping. Or “donating” to the state to put toilet paper in the outhouses, to keep the racoons from shredding it. 🚽 I was hoping to check out Willie Marsh 🐸 but I got on the wrong road, so I didn’t go by there. I finally got camp around 12:30, set things up, made my first batch of clams, 🕹 and they were good. Swam in the swimming hole across the way from House Pond Campsite, 🏊‍♀️ which might not be the potholers, but it’s right next door. Sat back in the hammock for a while listening to some music 🎼 and the news 📻, then had a fire. 🔥 The wood sure was wet that first night, and it was a bit smokey until I got it going well.

Sunset on Seneca Lake

On Monday evening, I sat in Clute Park watching the sunset. It was a nice sunset, as a sailboat sailed by. Not as red as what they saw back east, or so I am told from the wildfire smoke.

Taken on Thursday July 29, 2021 at Watkins Glen.

June 20, 2021 Evening

Good evening! Partly clear and 82 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a south breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 62 degrees. Back home again, as John Denver once sung. 🎶 Remarkably hot, especially now that I am back home after having a nice Sunday dinner at the folks house. 👕 Slowly unpacking my gear from camping, taking steps to drink and cool down.

Well, happy summer folks. ☺ The next ten weeks through Labor Day Weekend are considered real summer when the state parks pools are open and the days are relatively long. 🏖 Nice hot summer days to spend at the pool or swimming hole. 🏊🏻‍♂️ Do some fishing 🎣 late into the night.

It was a beautiful trip back across the Mohawk Valley and through the Schoharie Valley. Everything was very green and lush.  It was a nice weekend up north, although Friday night was very wet. ☔ It drizzled for a while and then when I went for a good walk up to the Potholers it poured and I got completely soaked. 💦 It was decent all three days up north although I have to say that today was the best of the week. That said, much too short. 🐇 Time flies, especially when it’s rare that I am not out of town for four or more nights, in the era of remote work. But I decided I should come home tonight, because I need to at minimum move to a new campsite.

It was three nights up in the wilderness, 🏕 camping up at House Pond, spending much of Friday during the day drinking, 🍺 reading, 📕 writing, ✍ and hanging down at the Swimming Hole by the House Pond Campsite. 🏊‍♀️ It was nice but the water was a bit cold to say the least. 🛶 Saturday, was kayaking from Stewart Landing up to Lily Lake. I didn’t go much into West Lake because I wanted to be close to back to Stewart Landing by 2 pm as they were threatening severe storms by afternoon, which never materialized. Instead, I spent the evening reading, and then down at the same swimming hole on the East Canada Creek. 🏊‍♀️ Most of Sunday was spent slowly taking down camp after a nice breakfast 🥞 then the majority of the day the Potholers. I forgot how much nicer the Potholers are with the flowing water and potholes compared to any ordinary swimming hole on a nice summer day. It’s good to be back there!

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 69 degrees at 5am. 10 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 66 at 3am. South wind around 8 mph. Probably need the fan on all evening. In 2020, we had mostly clear skies. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 69 degrees. The record low of 41 occurred back in 1970.

I thought about staying over the folks house, 👪 but I was tired and wanted to get home. It has been a nice weekend, but alas I should get ready for the work week and get my camping gear put away. I also want to get the volt meter out before dark, and try to figure out why the relay isn’t closing between the starting and accessory batteries when the engine is on or the solar is outputting enough to top off both batteries. 🔋 That was annoying that wasn’t working this weekend.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon with 81% illuminated. At 7 PM, the moon was in the southeast (139°) at an altitude of 26° from the horizon, some 226,818 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by December 9th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Strawberry 🍓 Moon is on Thursday, June 24. The darkest hour is at 12:58 am, followed by dawn at 4:43 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:18 am in the east-northeast (57°) and last for 3 minutes and 28 seconds. Sunrise is 11 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:01 am with sun in the east-northeast (64°). Tonight will have 8 hours and 41 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 4pm. Some of the storms could produce small hail, gusty winds, and heavy rain. Mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 89 degrees at 3pm. Eight degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 71 at 11am. South wind 10 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 92 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1938.

Friday turned out to be a very late start heading north. 🚍 I decided not to drive downtown as I’m out of practice with parallel parking and I hate dealing with rush hour traffic. 🚙 So I took the bus home and packed the coolers but ended up having to run to the grocery store to get all the things I didn’t previously pack. But at least the nights are long, and I had plenty of time to get set up, gather some firewood 🔥 and get things going.

The relay that connects the alternator – starting battery 🔋 to the accessory batteries quit working on the way up to camp. Not sure if it’s the exciter wire that broke or the relay is seized. It was fine, I had lots of sun ☀ for the solar so all was good. I stopped on Friday to try to get figure out the issue but nothing obvious. I’ll test this evening or tomorrow with the volt meter. ⚡ It’s possible that the big old can relay failed from the occasional clatter of the relay when clouds appear on a sunny day, although I think I have mostly arrested that by adjusting settings on the voltage control. I am betting the wire is just broken.

In four weeks on July 18 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (300°) at 8:29 pm,🌄 which is 7 minutes and 24 seconds earlier then today. In 2020 on that day, we had hot and sunny weather with shallow fog in the morning and temperatures between 87 and 59 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 84 and 63 degrees. The record high of 100 degrees was set back in 1953.

By then, I hope to be on my summer vacation. 😎 I am thinking the Finger Lakes National Forest and the state parks circuit I normally do, finding new places to hike or explore. I kind of like that campsite I stayed at last year without cell service, because I find do a lot more reading and thinking if I’m camping somewhere without cell service, 🤫 the quiet with no Facebook quite nice. 📱 I admit I am a bit of social media addict, even if my own postings to social media are a bit more asinine as I hate all the creepy commercial advertising that follows you around the internet, especially the green schemes.

Looking ahead, Independence Day 🇺🇸 is Next Sunday, World Population Day 👩‍👩‍👧‍👧 is in 3 weeks, Ugly Truck Day 🚚 is a month away, August 🌻 is in 6 weeks, Buck Moon 🌕 is in 9 weeks, Halloween 🎃 is in 19 weeks, Average High is 50 🍂 is in 21 weeks, Regular Deer Season in Southern Zone 🦌 is in 5 months, Repeal of Prohibition Day 🍺 is in 24 weeks, Cold Moon 🌕 is in 26 weeks and Boxing Day 🥊 is in 27 weeks.

Yesterday On Lake Pleasant

October 17, 2020 Evening

Good evening! Clear and 34 degrees at the Cherry Ridge Camping Area. 🌌There is a south-southwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. Cool but clear, I have a big ol roaring fire 🔥 tonight to stay warm.

While I was kind of hoping I’d have the whole camping area here to myself 👤 so I could listen to music 🎶 as loud as I wanted to, there are a few campers down the way and they seemed to have gone inside pretty early because of the cold. I know that I usually prefer to camp at a roadside site that is more spread out but there aren’t many options nearby.

It was a nice day, lots of blue skies and fall colors 🍂🌞 but as to be expected in higher elevations they had very much faded away. Spent the bulk of the day at Glimmerglass State Park 🏞 and then poked around Cooperstown for a while, which was really hoping but I didn’t want to spend too much time there with the pandemic. 👾 Of course, because I’ve been traveling my phone 📱 wants me to install the state’s COVID-19 tracking app but honestly that’s creepy and it’s not like I’ve been indoors or near anybody except for a brief stop at Hannaford on Daunesburg to pick up some groceries. 🏪

All day was kind of cold ❄ although part of it was I’m unwilling to accept winter is coming and I was just wearing a t shirt 👚 with my vest. The colors were really good down by the lake and up here by camp. ⛺

I really like the rough cut lands 🚜🏚️ of the backroads of Otsego and Madison County, the mud and manure, the run down farm houses and the earthy smell of livestock. 🐮 The junk cars and rusty tractors, the goats 🐐 staked down in front yard, the deer 🦌 hung from the tree, the pig pen 🐽 in the corner of the yard.

In a few years I plan to live in a place like that. 🏡🐐 🐖 I’m making good money at my job now 💵 but I’m really trying to save every penny I can, so I can eventually own land out in the country, live in small town. But not New York State – I don’t want to have to beg some judge for a pistol 🔫 permit and I want to be able to have burn barrels 🛢 and have fires to burn debris and brush whenever I want and not spend all my money on property taxes. In other words rural living minus the New York State part. Kind of like Pennsyltucky minus the high taxes although there is a lot to like about the state especially in the Pennsylvania Wild Region although many other parts of the state have wooded hills above the fertile valleys. 🌄

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 30 degrees at 3am. Seven degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 13th. South wind 5 to 7 mph. In 2019, we had light rain in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 41 degrees. The record low of 22 occurred back in 1978.

Tonight will have a New 🌚 Moon with 1% illuminated. At 7 PM, the moon was in the west-southwest (253°) at an altitude of 1° from the horizon, some 226,468 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 Lots of stars ✨ tonight. I got out star viewing app earlier. At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by April 7th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Blue 🌝 Moon is on Halloween 🦇 Saturday, October 31. The darkest hour is at 12:47 am, followed by dawn at 6:50 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:18 am in the east-southeast (102°) and last for 2 minutes and 58 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 12 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:57 am with sun in the east-southeast (109°). Tonight will have 13 hours and 3 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 48 seconds over last night. Always amazing how fast winter comes when it gets well underway. Nights are so long now and it seems like nine 9⃣ o’clock is the middle of the night now.

Tomorrow will have increasing clouds ☁, with a high of 56 degrees at 3pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 25th. South wind 9 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. The high last year was 52 degrees. The record high of 84 was set in 2016. There was a dusting of snow in 2015.❄

In four weeks on November 14 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (245°) at 4:39 pm (Standard Time),🌄 which is one hour, 36 minutes and 17 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had cold, partly cloudy and temperatures between 37 and 20 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 49 and 32 degrees. The record high of 70 degrees was set back in 1973.

Looking ahead, Regular Deer Season in Southern Zone 🦌 is in 5 weeks, Small Business Saturday 🛍️ is in 6 weeks, Repeal of Prohibition Day 🍺 is in 7 weeks, Boxing Day 🥊 is in 10 weeks, Static Electric Shock Day 🧼 is in 12 weeks, National Cheese Lovers Day 🧀 is in 14 weeks, Save the Pine Bush Turns 43 🦋 is in 16 weeks, Presidents Day 👴 is in 4 months, 5:30 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 18 weeks, and Snow Moon 🌕 is in 19 weeks.

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September 24, 2020 Evening

Good evening! Partly cloudy and 59 degrees in Speculator, NY. ⛅ There is a west breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 52 degrees.

It was a nice day but a busy one with work. 💼 The colors up in Speculator are pretty nice, 🍂 and it was nice working from the park and at the library. 📚 It was odd though that I ran into one of my neighbors up at Spectulator – he was actually working up at the library too. He apparently was up here on vacation too. With the Wi-Fi and cellphone it was as easy as working at home. 📶 That said, camping in the wilderness.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 51 degrees at 10pm. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 18th. Maximum dew point of 53 at 8pm. West wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 50 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1963.

Nice mild evening 🌃. I can’t believe it’s nine o’clock but it’s still warm enough to be sitting outside wearing a t-shirt 👕. Nice fire 🔥 for a while and now it’s burning down as the night progresses. It gets dark this time of year and the nights are long, with nearly more night than day. The eight hour nights have come and gone into a memory.

Tonight will have a First Quarter 🌓 Moon with 58% illuminated. At 7 PM, the moon was in the south (171°) at an altitude of 22° from the horizon, some 234,640 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by March 21st. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Hunter 🏹 Moon is on Thursday, October 1. The darkest hour is at 12:50 am, followed by dawn at 6:20 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:48 am in the east (90°) and last for 2 minutes and 57 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:26 am with sun in the east (97°). Tonight will have 11 hours and 58 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 57 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 74 degrees at 3pm. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 12th. Maximum dew point of 56 at 10am. Calm wind becoming southwest 5 to 8 mph in the morning. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 76 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 2017.

Should be another nice day. 😀 Back down to Spectulator in the morning for a Zoom Meetings and then probably walking down by Lake Pleasant. I can do most things from my phone 📱 but the Wi-Fi is helpful for certain things. And as another warm evening. I will probably get up really early to go hiking come Saturday.

In four weeks on October 22 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (255°) at 6:02 pm,🌄 which is 48 minutes and 6 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 59 and 43 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 57 and 38 degrees. The record high of 86 degrees was set back in 1979.

Looking ahead, Average High is 60 🍂 is in 3 weeks, Thanksgiving 🦃 is in 9 weeks, 7:15 AM Sunrise ⌛️ is in 11 weeks, Christmas Eve 🎅 is in 3 months, New Years Eve 🎆 is in 14 weeks, Coldest Week of the Year 🌬 is in 16 weeks, Wolf Moon 🌕 is in 18 weeks, Don’t Cry over Spilled Milk Day 🥛 is in 20 weeks and National Drink Wine Day 🍷 is in 21 weeks.