Good morning! What day is it? Hump Day, of course. 🐫 I guess I will have to watch more of Homesteady videos where they milk their camel. 🥛 Camel milk is good for children with allergies to dairy apparently. 🌸 Next Wednesday is National Dog Day 🐩. Partly cloudy and 54 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ Calm wind. Almost an autumn like morning. I shouldn’t rush it in Trump’s America 🇺🇸 .

It was nice to hike out to Five Rivers 🐦 last night but the sun sure sets early now that September is just around the corner. 🌇 It’s always a big shock when you come back east and the sun sets so much earlier. It’s nice spending time out in the woods although I miss the wild country of the Finger Lakes.

Today will have isolated showers after 9am. Partly sunny 🌦, with a high of 74 degrees at 3pm. Six degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 11th. Maximum dew point of 56 at 1pm. Light northwest wind increasing to 8 to 13 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. It was sticky. The high last year was 86 degrees. The record high of 92 was set in 1899.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:00 pm with sun having an altitude of 60° from the due south horizon (-10.9° vs. 6/21). The sun isn’t nearly as high in the sky now that the first day of summer is in the distance. A six foot person will cast a 3.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:14 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (282°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (288°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:52 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 3 seconds with dusk around 8:20 pm, which is one minute and 32 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the west-northwest (285°) at an altitude of 3° from the horizon, 229,402 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:58 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 69 degrees. The dew point will be 52 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 43 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 36 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 52 degrees at 5am. Eight degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 14th. Maximum dew point of 52 at 6pm. West wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 63 degrees. The record low of 45 occurred back in 1998.

On this day in 1955, severe flooding across the northeastern portion of our country caused by Hurricane Diane claims 200 lives. 🌀 Mostly forgotten now, it devesated the Poconos of Pennsylvania, along with much of Connecticut and Massachusetts as rivers overflowed their banks and dams failed. The East Coast got hit by multiple hurricanes that year, the one on top of the other is what lead to a lot of the flooding. 💦

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 87. Maximum dew point of 65 at 7pm. Sunday, a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 84. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Maximum dew point of 66 at 5pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 80 degrees.

I am not convinced that Sunday will be really good weather wise ☀ but I’m thinking about taking a weekend out to Schoharie County and going to the Mine Kill Pool. Probably drive out on Sunday as I have a pretty busy day scheduled for Friday with work and lots of video conferences and training that I’m putting on. Certainly will be hot and humid though for the weekend.

As previously noted, next Wednesday is National Dog Day 🐩 when the sun will be setting at 7:39 pm with dusk at 8:08 pm. On that day in 2019, we had sunny and temperatures between 78 and 52 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 79 degrees. We hit a record high of 98 back in 1948.