Good morning! What day is it? It’s a dusty delta day, of course. So Bobby Gentrie made famous with the Ode to Billie Joe. Good day for throwing flowers 🌸 off bridges. Three weeks to Latest Sunset 🌆. Cloudy and 61 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 56 degrees. The skies will clear around 4 pm.
Nice morning, heading out for my morning walk in a bit. 🚶 Pancakes and coffee ☕ for breakfast then it’s down to work, a busy day ahead. Busy enough I actually ended up doing some work last evening before bed. That’s why I ended up skipping on the blog post for the night.
After work or in the off chance I have downtime today I’ll start packing for camping ⛺. I am probably going to go up to the Adirondacks for 4-5 days, although it’s a bit uncertain based on the weather. More remote work this week although with the Capital Region in Phase 2 I tend to think my office 🏢 will be reopening soon. I haven’t heard anything from CDTA when the bus service will resume but I expect it’s coming back relatively soon. I will probably camp at the campsite where I have the good cell phone reception 📶 and lots of sun for solar. This time I’m not bringing the kayak just because working up there I need the solar in the day time and it’s kind of pain to take on and off repeatedly.
Today will have a chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 1pm. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 77 degrees at 3pm. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 10th. Maximum dew point of 63 at 12pm. South wind 9 to 15 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 65 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1925.
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:55 pm with sun having an altitude of 69.8° from the due south horizon (-1.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.2 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:47 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (295°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (302°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:29 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 25 seconds with dusk around 9:02 pm, which is 44 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the southeast (142°) at an altitude of 24° from the horizon, 228,490 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:47 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 73 degrees. The dew point will be 60 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 14 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 9 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 8 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 58 degrees at 5am. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around June 19th. Maximum dew point of 60 at 7pm. West wind 6 to 14 mph. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 47 degrees. The record low of 36 occurred back in 1947.
Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 82. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Maximum dew point of 64 at 8am. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 73. Maximum dew point of 52 at 6am. Typical average high for the weekend is 75 degrees.
As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Latest Sunset 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 8:37 pm with dusk at 9:12 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 85 and 56 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 80 degrees. We hit a record high of 96 back in 1943.
