May 3, 2018 Evening

Good evening! Shit ton of traffic downtown, must be a special event.🚗🚙🚌🚓🚙🚗Hot, gray, cloudy with a threat of thunderstorms and 83 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a west breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 61 degrees. Nice and cool on the bus. I wonder what my display will say in my bedroom when I get home.

The sun will set at 7:58 pm with dusk around 8:29 pm, which is one minute and 7 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain ☁ and thunderstorms ☁ and 79 degrees. The dew point will be 61 degrees. There will be a west-southwest breeze at 7 mph.

Tonight will have showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before midnight, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between midnight and 5am. Cloudy ☁, with a low of 64 degrees at 5am. 19 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 61 at 6pm. Southwest wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2017, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 36 degrees. The record low of 28 occurred back in 1985.

Tonight will have a Waning Gibbous Moon 🌖 with 84% illuminated with the moon rising at 11:30 pm. The moon will set at 9:08 am. The Last Quarter Moon is on Sunday night with mostly clear skies. The Flower Moon 🌝 is on Monday, May 28th. The sun will rise at 5:46 am with the first light at 5:14 am, which is one minute and 19 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 9 hours and 46 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 24 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 1pm. Mostly cloudy ☁, with a high of 83 degrees at 3pm. 17 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 62 at 11am. South wind 6 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies. The high last year was 64 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 1944. There was a dusting of snow in 1986.❄

Upon further thought, I’ve decided to head up to the Adirondacks after work tomorrow. 🗻Maybe there will be some thunderstorms when I get up there but at this point, Friday evening doesn’t look a wash out. I really need a long weekend to get away from it all, sit back next to fire and watch it burn late into the night. 🔥 Hopefully traffic won’t be as bad as tonight.

I’m tired because I stayed up too late last night and woke too early this morning. Thinking about getting some sleep before I go shopping later and packing the truck. 💤Just a short little nap. ⚑There definitely seems to be the threat of a thunderstorms with a pretty good rain this evening but we will see.

There are definitely dark clouds over our country today, and I see a lot uncertainty in the future. Maybe that’s why lately I’ve been thinking so much about tomorrow. 😮 I see the storm clouds in the future, and I’ll ride any turbenlance their may be in the future one day at a time, as careful as can be. ✈Mistakes will be made but I’ll do whatever I can to insulate myself from them.

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. πŸ˜• Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 71. West wind 8 to 10 mph. Maximum dew point of 47 at 6am. β˜€Sunday, a chance of showers before noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 66. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Maximum dew point of 50 at 4pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 66 degrees.

In four weeks on May 31 the sun will be setting at 8:26 pm,🌄 which is 27 minutes and 50 seconds later then today. In 2017 on that day, we had thunderstorm, thunderstorm rain, hail, rain, drizzle, mist, partly cloudy skies and temperatures between 77 and 56 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 74 and 52 degrees. The record high of 92 degrees was set back in 2013.

Looking ahead, Labor Day 👨‍🏭 is in 4 months, Thanksgiving 🦃 is in 29 weeks and Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 30 months.

🇺🇸🦅Only 22 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸

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