June 8, 2016 Night

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Good evening! Currently mostly cloudy and 52 degrees in Delmar. Breezy, 17 mph breeze from the west-northwest. Kind of a chilly evening for June, especially with the breeze.

Slight chance of showers and cool for tonight. We will have a slight chance of showers before 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 49. West wind 11 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. The normal low for tonight is 55, so it will be about six degrees below normal. The record low of 37 occured back in 1977.

Tomorrow the sun will rise at 5:16 am with the first light at 4:42 am, which is 9 seconds earlier then today.

Decreasing clouds and windy and cool for Thursday. We will be Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 69. Windy, with a northwest wind 16 to 26 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph. The normal high for Thursday is 76, so it will be a fair bit below normal for this time of year. The record high of 100 happened back in 1933.

Looking ahead, Dairy Day at LOB is in 1 weeks, Thrift Shop Day is in 10 weeks and Election Day is in 5 months.

I hope you had a good day. Sleep well.

June 8, 2016 7 PM Update

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Good evening! Currently mostly cloudy and 60 degrees in Albany. Windy, with a stiff breeze running around 26 mph the west-northwest. While not the nicest evening, I think it was a pretty good day.

Going to be relatively cool tonight. There is a chance of isolated showers before 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 48. Breezy, with a west wind 18 to 23 mph decreasing to 11 to 16 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 34 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. The normal low for tonight is 55, so it will be about seven degrees below normal. The record low of 37 occured back in 1977.

Tonight the sun will set at 8:31 pm with dusk around 9:06 pm, which is 36 seconds later than yesterday. Almost the longest day of the year. Tonight we have a Waxing Crescent Moon with 30% illuminated. The moon will will set around 12:01 am. June’s Strawberry Moon is on Monday, June 20th.

Decreasing clouds tomorrow but still quite windy and cool. We will be Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 69. Windy, with a northwest wind 16 to 26 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph. The normal high for Thursday is 76, so it will be seven degrees below normal for this time of year. The record high of 100 happened back in 1933.

Right now, the weekend looks nice but a bit cool. Saturday will be partly sunny, with a high near 76. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Sunday, scattered showers and thunderstorms before 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 72. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Typical average high for the weekend is 77 degrees.

The lower temperatures expected for the weekend should hopefully help to keep the black flies in check. Which definitely is a good thing. I actually think a cooler weekend will be quite pleasant as long as it doesn’t rain much.

In four weeks on July 6 the sun will be setting at 8:35 pm, which is 3 minutes later then today. The average high is 82 degrees, and the record for that date is 97 degrees was set back in 1886.

June 8, 2016 Morning

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Good morning! What day is it? Hump Day, of course. I think there is hope for the weekend. Currently partly cloudy and 61 degrees in Delmar. Breezy, 16 mph breeze from the west-northwest. Generally pleasant right now.

Scattered showers and cool for today. We will be scattered showers, with thunderstorms also possible after noon. Increasing clouds, with a high near 66. West wind 9 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. The normal high for today is 76, so it will be about normal for this time of year. The record high of 93 happened back in 2011. That year was a pretty warm one for sure. If this summer is that warm, I plan to spend a lot of time at the Potholers. Which so far this summer hasn’t been real warm.

Tonight the sun will set at 8:32 pm with dusk around 9:06 pm, which is 35 seconds later than yesterday. Today will have 15 hours and 14 minutes of daylight, an increase of 47 seconds over yesterday.

Isolated showers and continued cool tonight. We will be isolated showers before 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 48. West wind 14 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. The normal low for tonight is 55, so it will be about seven degrees below normal. The record low of 37 occured back in 1977.

On this day in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy’s funeral takes place at the St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. While it’s true that many prime voters today can assassination of John F. Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy in another decade there will be many fewer of them. It’s bound to change how people perceive politics. I think it’s wonderful that they have been doing so much documentation of the neighborhoods that disappeared with construction of the Empire State Plaza as few will remember a time before the plaza in another decade.