Good evening! A pleasant summer evening without too much humidity. Mostly sunny and 80 degrees in Delmar. There is a west-northwest breeze at 14 mph. The dew point is 57 degrees.

Tonight will be mostly clear, with a low around 59. One degree below normal. Northwest wind 5 to 8 mph becoming calm after midnight. The record low of 47 occurred back in 1938.

Tonight the sun will set at 8:37 pm with dusk around 9:11 pm, which is 6 seconds earlier than yesterday. Those days sure are getting shorter quickly. Just wait until September 21st.Tonight we have a Waning Crescent Moon with 30% illuminated. The moon will rise around 1:42 am. July’s Buck Moon is on Tuesday, July 19th.

Thursday will be sunny, with a high near 83. Two degrees above normal. Calm wind becoming west around 6 mph in the afternoon. The record high of 98 was set in 1964.

A nice Independence Day Weekend coming up with seasonable temperatures. Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 78. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 80. For Independence Day, sunny with a high near 84. Nothing like Independence Day in 1911, when Albany baked under 104 degree weather. Typical average high for the weekend is 82 degrees. For the most part low humidity all weekend through the Fourth. You don’t get nice weather like this much in Albany.

In four weeks on July 27 the sun will be setting at 8:20 pm, which is 16 minutes earlier then today. The average high is 82 degrees, and the record for that date is 97 degrees was set back in 1955.

Heading into our morning on this Hump Day, It is partly cloudy and 67 degrees in Delmar. There is a west breeze at 3 mph. The dew point is 62 degrees.

Today will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between 2pm and 4pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 80. One degree below normal. West wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. The record high of 96 was set in 1944.

Tonight the sun will set at 8:36 pm with dusk around 9:11 pm, which is 6 seconds earlier than yesterday. Today will have 15 hours and 16 minutes of daylight, a decrease of 36 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear, with a low around 58. Two degrees below normal. West wind 3 to 7 mph. The record low of 47 occured back in 1938.

On this day in 2006, in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld the U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush’s plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.

There are 7 weeks until Thrift Shop Day when the sun will be setting at 7:52 pm with dusk at 8:22 pm. The average high temperature is 81 degrees, with a record high of 97 in 1913. Always good to be thrifty and get affordable summer clothes, especially when the mercury is around 97.

I was tired last night and it absolutely poured, so I basically just sat in bed and played on my laptop before retiring early to bed. It’s good we finally got a good soaking rain as things started to get dried up.

Somebody left a dead doe or buck they towed out of the woods with baling twine along Elm Avenue. It might have been poached as its head was missing, though this time of year it wouldn’t have antlers and seemed pretty small to have sizable antlers. The hair was mostly gone and had been rotting for a while. It certainly stunk. Oh well.