Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Mostly sunny and 69 degrees in Selkirk. There is a northwest breeze at 10 mph. The dew point is 58 degrees. Really not a bad day at all.

Today will be mostly sunny, with a high of 80 degrees at 3pm. Three degrees below normal. Northwest wind 10 to 14 mph. Maximum dew point of 58 at 8am. The record high of 97 was set in 1904. The sun will set at 8:27 pm with dusk around 9:00 pm, which is 48 seconds earlier than yesterday. Today will have 14 hours and 51 minutes of daylight, a decrease of 1 minutes and 43 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear, with a low of 54 degrees at 5am. Eight degrees below normal. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Maximum dew point of 54 at 7pm. The record low of 49 occurred back in 1974.

I have a meeting in Cazenovia tomorrow morning at 9 AM, so tonight I’m leaving after dinner to head out to Brookfield to camp overnight at Cherry Ridge at Charles Baker State Forest. No campfire and just camping minimally as I want to be relatively clean. Just sitting back with candles, looking at the full moon with a good book. The upside is I’ll not have have to get up early and I get to spend a nice evening in the wilderness. It’s kind of like a jump start on vacation. Although I do have to be at a meeting in the morning and I have to work for the rest of the week.

0.2 inch of rain expected between Friday 8am and Saturday 7am. Within the next four days, a total of 0.2 inches of rain is expected. We have some muggy weather coming up starting Thursday evening and going through the weekend. Thursday 8pm – Thursday 9pm. Maximum temperature will be 82 degrees, a heat index reaching 84, and a maximum dew point of 65. Friday 7am – Monday 12pm. Maximum temperature will be 91 degrees, a heat index reaching 94, and a maximum dew point of 68. Monday 5pm – Monday 9pm. Maximum temperature will be 88 degrees, a heat index reaching 90, and a maximum dew point of 65.

Definitely going to be a hot one to start out my vacation. The air conditioning works good in my truck and I plan to spend a lot of time swimming, so I can’t complain. Hopefully the hot weather will last  into next week and we won’t have too many thunderstorms.

On this day, there was the Great New York City Fire of 1845: The last great fire to affect Manhattan began early in the morning and was subdued that afternoon. The fire killed 4 firefighters, 26 civilians, and destroyed 345 buildings. Always be careful with matches, in densely packed urban areas with lots of wooden buildings.

There are 4 weeks until Altamont Fair Opens when the sun will be setting at 7:54 pm with dusk at 8:24 pm. The average high temperature is 81 degrees, with a record high of 97 in 1936.