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 21^st. 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.