August 22, 2016 Afternoon

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We really have a nice week ahead of us. The worse weather probably is going to be Thursday through Friday, when it will be modestly humid, with a chance of thunders. Other then that, pretty beautiful and reasonably warm with low humidity.

Weather Summary
This Afternoon. Sunny and Breezy and 76 degrees , 52 max dew point, 7:42 sunset.
Tonight. Clear and 54 degrees , 51 max dew point, 6:11 sunrise.
Tuesday. Sunny and 80 degrees , 55 max dew point, 7:42 sunset.
Tuesday Night. Clear and 56 degrees , 57 max dew point, 6:12 sunrise.
Wednesday. Sunny and 86 degrees , 60 max dew point, 7:41 sunset.
Wednesday Night. Mostly Clear and 63 degrees , 61 max dew point, 6:13 sunrise.
Thursday. Mostly Sunny and 87 degrees , 64 max dew point, 7:39 sunset.
Thursday Night. Scattered T-storms and 69 degrees , 67 max dew point, 6:14 sunrise.
Friday. Partly Sunny and 85 degrees , 68 max dew point, 7:38 sunset.
Friday Night. Partly Cloudy and 63 degrees , 66 max dew point, 6:15 sunrise.
Saturday. Mostly Sunny and 83 degrees , 62 max dew point, 7:36 sunset.
Saturday Night. Mostly Clear and 61 degrees , 60 max dew point, 6:17 sunrise.
Sunday. Mostly Sunny and 83 degrees , 61 max dew point, 7:34 sunset.

August 22, 2016 9 AM Update

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In four weeks on Monday, September 19 the sun will be setting at 6:56 pm, which is 48 minutes earlier then today. It will be third to last day of “calendar” summer (Autumn arrives Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 10:21 AM EDT).

The average high is 71 degrees, and the record for that date is 90 degrees was set back in 1946. Back in 1959, the temperature dropped down to 32 degrees (freezing!)

August 22, 2016 10 AM Update

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Today in 1971, twenty of the Camden 28 were arrested. They were a group of “Catholic left” anti-Vietnam War activists who in 1971 planned and executed a raid on a Camden, New Jersey draft board. The raid resulted in a high-profile criminal trial of the activists that was seen by many as a referendum on the Vietnam War and as an example of successful use of jury nullification.

The statement they wrote prior to their trial:

“We are twenty-eight men and women who, together with other resisters across the country, are trying with our lives to say “no” to the madness we see perpetrated by our government in the name of the American people – the madness of our Vietnam policy, of the arms race, of our neglected cities and inhuman prisons. We do not believe that it is criminal to destroy pieces of paper which are used to bind men to involuntary servitude, which train these men to kill, and which send them to possibility die in an unjust, immoral, and illegal war. We stand for life and freedom and the building of communities of true friendship. We will continue to speak out and act for peace and justice, knowing that our spirit of resistance cannot be jailed or broken.”

Wikipedia – The Camden 28: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Camden_28

PBS Point of View Special – The Camden 28: http://www.pbs.org/pov/camden28/

See also http://camden28.org.