Good morning! Happy Thursday. Three weeks to Strawberry Moon 🍓 🌕 . I should I get out to Schoharie and get strawberries. Maybe after the Mine Kill Pool is open. 🏊🏻‍♂️ Partly cloudy and 59 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ Looks stormy to the south west. ⛈ I had better bring my umbrella today. There is a south-southeast breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 56 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 5 pm.

Out for the morning walk 🚶🏻, not quite as early as yesterday by still fairly early as I have to get my suit on 👨🏻‍🏫 and catch the bus 🚍 downtown. Yesterday was a pretty long day at work but it is done and I expect a earlier day home 🏡 today. Tomorrow at this time I should be well on my way to Lake Pleasant for a long weekend if remote work. I need to buy a few things tonight and I might do my wash 👚 so my work clothes are clean when I get home, so I can return late Monday or Tuesday night and avoid as much of the heat wave as possible.

Yesterday I forgot my umbrella ☔ mainly because I didn’t believe it would be raining much when I got out of work. But it was drizzling a bit when I left the office 🏢 but at least the bus shelter is just a short walk away and the bus drops me off right by my apartment. Who knows. I am not sure where my rain coat 🧥 is, I wonder if I left it at my parents house.

I am thinking I will need to get my suit jacket dry cleaned 👨🏻‍🏫 in two weeks. I fear 😱 what the prices will be for dry cleaning at this point after the pandemic is over and all the losses built in price. Inflation is kicking in, often in sneaky ways. 💵 But I guess I’ve saved a shit ton of money by not needing any dry cleaning since early 2020.

Today will be scattered showers before noon, then scattered showers and thunderstorms between noon and 5pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rain. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a high of 72 degrees at 4pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 19th. Maximum dew point of 63 at 5pm. South wind 6 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 81 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1925.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:55 pm with sun having an altitude of 69.7° 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 24 seconds with dusk around 9:02 pm, which is 45 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:47 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 69 degrees. The dew point will be 62 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 9 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 10 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rain. 🌧 Low of 63 degrees at 3am. Eight degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 63 at 6pm. 🏖️ South wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2020, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 59 degrees. The record low of 36 occurred back in 1947.

Just a hot ol summer weekend as the first heat wave gets underway. 🏖 Saturday, a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Mostly sunny, with a high near 84. South wind 5 to 9 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Maximum dew point of 63 at 9pm. Sunday, sunny and hot, with a high near 90. Maximum dew point of 67 at 7pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 77 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 2020, we had humid, partly sunny, rain showers and temperatures between 85 and 65 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 82 degrees. We hit a record high of 96 back in 1943.