Good morning! Happy Hump Day! 🐪 In the era of front wheel drive cars does anybody celebrate Hump Day anymore? 🚘 Getting ready to catch the bus 🚍 downtown for a day working in the old office 🏢. Partly sunny and 68 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌤️ There is a south breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 63 degrees. A day of sweltering summer heat ended by violent ⛈ and than a good stretch cool, low humidity weather although the Friday going into the Memorial Day Weekend looks like a good soaker. ☔

Today will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rain. Mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 88 degrees at 2pm. 14 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 65 at 10am. South wind 8 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Going to be a hot late May. Summer is coming although even though with the new climate normals that’s pretty toasty, with the mugginess. Chance of precipitation is 30%. 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. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 90 degrees. The record high of 94 was set in 2010. There was a dusting of snow in 1953.❄

While the air conditioning is on the bus, ❄ it feels hot and muggy with the suit and tie with the mask.😷 I can’t believe how uncomfortable wearing the muzzle truly is this morning. I wish they would lower the air conditioning even more on the bus but I’m not sure if that’s something the drivers control. I haven’t minded masks so much but now that I have to wear them going back and forth to work, a lot of days a work, it really isn’t that much fun. 👨‍💼 Maybe it’s not so bad when you are not in a shirt and tie for work.

I pulled the window shades down and got the fan set up so when I get home, although I might not get home until late, especially if I go over to Dan Van Riper’s place to continuing sorting and drying out John Wolcott’s papers. 📜 I know that Assemblyman Jack McEneny and some others is going to be continuing working over there today, but I can’t do this now because I have to work. But maybe this afternoon after work, although speaking to Dan one of issues is that none of the buildings they’re working in lacks light fixtures.

I am still a bit troubled about what I saw salvaging historical materials from Mr. Wolcott’s house prior to demolition. 🚪 It’s just a reminder how temporary and disposable all things are around us all. While I wondered when that fire ripped through the street in 2018, if things would be lost, it took another 3 years before a devastating fire destroyed much of what was in the house. Last night, I went out and bought a few SanDisk flash drives, so I could start backing up my files off site from my apartment in case of fire, tornado, building collapse, or other permanent evacuation. 💾 You can say it won’t happen to you, but then when you smell that awful smell of a burnt house and a disjointed burnt out building, it seems to really hit. 👩‍🚒 I know a lot of people store their files in the cloud, but I don’t have internet as an option, so I’ve been storing things on an external hard drive, which is good except if the building you are storing things is destroyed. I haven’t heard if Lynne has been able to recover the files.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 68.6° from the due south horizon (-2.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:41 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (294°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (301°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:22 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 21 seconds with dusk around 8:55 pm, which is 54 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:39 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 79 degrees. The dew point will be 61 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 9 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 58 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 35 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have showers and thunderstorms likely before midnight, then scattered showers. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rain. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 58 degrees at 4am. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around June 16th. Maximum dew point of 62 at 6pm. West wind 5 to 9 mph becoming light. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2020, we had mostly clear skies. It was humid. It got down to 68 degrees. The record low of 30 occurred back in 1969.

Cool this weekend with temperatures running 10 degrees below normal but otherwise sunny. 😃 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 64. Maximum dew point of 36 at 7am. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 67. Maximum dew point of 42 at 8pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 75 degrees.

I am not sure what my weekend will look like. 💭 I have a feeling I might have to work this weekend, so I am less inclined to go to Adirondacks because working and camping 🏕 is less fun then being totally off grid and doing lots of drinking and hanging out. Plus I really want a hot weekend I can spend down at the Potholers doing said things without the crowds. And as we get further into the June, the black flies taper off.

Looking ahead, there are 7 weeks until National Nude Day 👱 when the sun will be setting at 8:31 pm with dusk at 9:05 pm. On that day in 2020, we had mostly sunny, thunderstorm and temperatures between 84 and 67 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 84 degrees. We hit a record high of 99 back in 1995.