Good morning! As they say, bang a gong, get it on. Happy Hump Day. Flag day tomorrow. Three weeks to Independence Day 🇺🇸. Rain showers and 66 degrees in Albany. ☔ There is a south breeze at 15 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 59 degrees. The skies will clear around 11 pm.

Going to be a pretty wet and rainy day. 🌧 But we are inching closer to summer, and the weekend will be here before you know it. 🔊 Or so I am told. I don’t know though. 😖 Last night was fun, although three drinks without eating anything for many hours, can make you quite intoxicated quickly. 🍻 It was a fun evening though, despite missing Brewers Assocation Night due to being stuck late at work. 👷

Today will have showers likely, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Mostly cloudy , with a high of 78 degrees at 6pm. One degree above normal. Maximum dew point of 65 at 4pm. South wind around 16 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 sunny skies with more clouds in the afternoon. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 91 degrees. The record high of 94 was set in 1892.

The sun will set at 8:34 pm with dusk around 9:09 pm, which is 27 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain ☁ and thunderstorms ☁ and 75 degrees. The dew point will be 65 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 17 minutes of daytime, an increase of 29 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before midnight. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear 🌉, with a low of 61 degrees at 6am. Five degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 66 at 9pm. Breezy, with a south wind 10 to 20 mph becoming west after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 30 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 light rain in the evening, remaining overcast into the early morning. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 58 degrees. The record low of 39 occurred back in 1970.

On this day in 1966, the United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.👮 Also in 1970, “The Long and Winding Road” becomes The Beatles’ last U.S. number one song. And in 1977, Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Independence Day 🇺🇸 when the sun will be setting at 8:36 pm with dusk at 9:10 pm. On that day in 2017, we had mostly cloudy skies and temperatures between 82 and 56 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 82 degrees. We hit a record high of 104 back in 1911.