October 12, 2020 Night

Good evening! Mostly cloudy and 49 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a east-southeast breeze at 5 mph. πŸƒ. The skies will clear tomorrow around 8 pm.

Busy day at work, πŸ’Ό spent most of the day working down at the public library at various projects. The wi-fi was quite reliable and fast today and the weather was comfortable – not hot or cold for working. Spent most of the day there.

Somehow I’ve misplaced my headphones 🎧and while I’ve been looking for them today will need to do more digging around tomorrow. They probably fell between the seat πŸ’Ί of the truck 🚚 or somewhere else. I figured in the morning there will be more light to find them.

For some reason my kitchen stinks of carburetor cleaner. πŸ‘ƒπŸ» I think the rusty can must have leaked. Pungent. I opened the windows and will avoid doing anything that could light a spark ✨ tonight. Hopefully things won’t go bang. πŸ’₯ I thought it was at first something my neighbor was painting 🎨 out back but I’m pretty sure it’s a leak in the rusty aerosol can.

I went over to John Wolcott house and did over two hours recording the documentary. 🎞️ Definitely captured some interesting conversations with Jerry who has known Mr. Wolcott for a very long time.

Tonight will rain likely, mainly after 3am. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 48 degrees at 4am. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 25th. Southeast wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 42 degrees. The record low of 24 occurred back in 1981.

Tonight will have a Waining Crescent 🌘 Moon with 17% illuminated. The Hunter 🏹 Moon is on Wednesday, October 28. The darkest hour is at 12:42 am, followed by dawn at 6:38 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:06 am in the east (100Β°) and last for 2 minutes and 57 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. πŸŒ„ The golden hour ends at 7:44 am with sun in the east-southeast (106Β°). Tonight will have 12 hours and 49 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 49 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will rain. Patchy fog before 2pm. 🌧 High of 56 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 25th. Northeast wind around 6 mph becoming north in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies. The high last year was 62 degrees. The record high of 81 was set in 1930. There was a dusting of snow in 1934.❄

In four weeks on November 9 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (247Β°) at 4:38 pm (Standard Time),πŸŒ„ which is one hour, 39 minutes and 10 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had cold, mostly sunny and temperatures between 39 and 18 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 51 and 33 degrees. The record high of 71 degrees was set back in 1975.

Looking ahead, Cyber Monday πŸ›οΈ and Beaver Moon πŸŒ• is in 7 weeks, First Day of Winter β˜ƒοΈ is in 10 weeks, 4:30 PM Sunset πŸŒ† is in 11 weeks, Winnie the Pooh Day 🍯 is in 14 weeks, Martin Luther King Day πŸ–€ is in 14 weeks, 5 PM Sunset πŸŒ† is in 15 weeks and February 🌧 is in 16 weeks.

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