Good morning! Happy Saturday. Finally the weekend! Four weeks to Northern Zone Regular Season 🦌. Sunny and 38 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 There is a north-northwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃.

Cold start to the morning, ❄ although maybe not cold for snow. Went to the bathroom 🚽 and had a cold cup of coffee ☕. In a little bit I’ll make some fresh coffee and corn bread pancakes 🥞 and then shower 🚿 and head out to Black Swamp to do some wild observation.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 59 degrees at 3pm. 12 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 17th. North wind 5 to 8 mph. Definitely want a long sleeve shirt 🧥 today. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 72 degrees. The record high of 90 was set in 1946.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:50 pm with sun having an altitude of 48.6° from the due south horizon (-22.2° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 5.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:22 pm with the sun in the west (266°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (273°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 6:59 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 54 seconds with dusk around 7:25 pm, which is one minute and 48 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the west-southwest (248°) at an altitude of 11° from the horizon, 226,319 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:00 pm. At sunset, look for clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 55 degrees. There will be a north breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 12 hours and 17 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 53 seconds over yesterday.

Most of the afternoon I’ll probably spend at the Albany Pine Bush. 🌲🌲🦆🐸🐦🦋🐛 It should be a nice afternoon and I’ll try to post some pictures while I’m out and about. Next weekend I’m hoping to get to the Adirondacks, probably in the area around Spectulator – so I can get to library Wi-Fi as necessary 💻 for work.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 36 degrees at 3am. 14 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 27th. North wind around 6 mph. Chilly! In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 42 degrees. The record low of 30 occurred back in 1979.

This evening I’m hoping to install the replacement battery 🔋 in my laptop. 💻 The old one isn’t holding a charge for any length of time and replacements shouldn’t be too hard although it does require disassembly of the laptop.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Northern Zone Regular Season 🦌 when the sun will be setting at 6:09 pm with dusk at 6:37 pm. On that day in 2019, we had rain and temperatures between 52 and 46 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 59 degrees. We hit a record high of 85 back in 1947.