Good morning! Happy Autumn 🍂! Starts at 9:30 am. Sunny and 36 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 Calm wind.

Autumn always comes and goes so quickly 🍂 and I don’t think this year will be a exception. But honestly November is my favorite month. I like the many shades of brown and yellow from the tamarack. I like the cold and the wood smoke.

I only had the dregs of the coffee ☕ in the coffee container so I boiled the percolator extra long. It actually became out reasonably strong. Maybe not as strong as cold coffee that has sitting out for a couple of days but still pretty good.

So this morning I’m heading downtown 🚍 for work a little bit later than usual to miss the commuter crush. I have that comfortable mask to wear 😷 and it should be a good day. I told John last night that I would come over to and continue digging through his files 📂.

Today will have areas of frost before 9am. Otherwise, sunny 🌞, with a high of 65 degrees at 1pm. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 2nd. Light north wind increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the morning. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It became humid as the day progressed. The high last year was 87 degrees. The record high of 95 was set in 1895.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:49 pm with sun having an altitude of 47.5° from the due south horizon (-23.4° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 5.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. Same as the first day of spring. 🐸 The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:16 pm with the sun in the west (265°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (271°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 6:54 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 54 seconds with dusk around 7:20 pm, which is one minute and 47 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the south-southwest (206°) at an altitude of 22° from the horizon, 229,801 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 7:55 pm. At sunset, look for clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 62 degrees. Breezy, 16 mph breeze from the north-northwest. Today will have 12 hours and 8 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 50 degrees at 3am. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 21st. Northwest wind 7 to 14 mph. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It was humid. It got down to 66 degrees. The record low of 32 occurred back in 1963.

A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 76. Maximum dew point of 57 at 5pm. Sunday, a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 74. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Maximum dew point of 62 at 1pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 68 degrees.

I am still planning on heading up to Spectulator for four days starting Thursday before work. ⛺ I am undecided on my exact plans, I am going back and forth about whether I should bring my kayak 🛶. The problem is I’m going to need a lot of sunshine ☀ to keep things charged with the laptop and the sun angle is twenty degrees lower than even a few months back. Winter is coming.