Good morning! Happy Mothers Day 👩‍ ! Got to listen to that good ol’ Zappa record with the Mothers. As Merle once sung, there are two kinds of mothers. So many good choices! And if you aren’t so motherly, there are Five weeks to Fathers Day 👨 . Partly sunny and 43 degrees in Delmar, NY. 😎 There is a west-northwest breeze at 8 mph. 🍃.

Today will have increasing clouds ☁, with a high of 61 degrees at 2pm. Eight degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 19th. West wind around 8 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 45 degrees. The record high of 93 was set in 1979. 1.6 inches of snow fell back in 1977.❄

I thought about walking down to the Normans Kill Falls with the deep blue skies and everything greening up so nicely 💦 but it seems like it would be crowded on the rail trail, and truth be told I’m not super ambitious on the weekends. Maybe I’ll go to Partridge Run and hike after noontime, but I’m watching the weather and seeing how cloudy it will be later on. 🐦 Or if it looks like the storm might push in early, I might go to Bennett Hill. 🏃‍♀️ I don’t have a lot of fuel in my truck, so I don’t want to go far from home. ⛽

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 64.8° from the due south horizon (-6° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:25 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (288°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (295°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:05 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 11 seconds with dusk around 8:36 pm, which is one minute and 6 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:16 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 54 degrees. There will be a south-southwest breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 25 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 17 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain, mainly before 5am. Patchy fog after 2am. 🌧 Low of 43 degrees at 6am. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 2nd. South wind 5 to 8 mph becoming northeast after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. In 2020, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 36 degrees. The record low of 28 occurred back in 1958.

Looking ahead, there are 5 weeks until Fathers Day 👨 when the sun will be setting at 8:34 pm with dusk at 9:08 pm. On that day in 2020, we had cold, partly sunny and temperatures between 66 and 46 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 79 degrees. We hit a record high of 94 back in 1892.