Good evening! Mostly cloudy and 54 degrees ☁ in Delmarcation. 🌊 Calm wind. The dew point is 45 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 9 am.

I went to the Pine Bush dinner and it was an interesting presentation.  🏚 The Dunn Landfill is really bad news 📰 for Rennselear, especially the 200 trucks a day that rumble through the streets, starting in a big line at 6:30 AM every morning. It’s unfortunate that we live in a throw away everything society that when they demolish homes today, everything from the kitchen appliances to the old wood and brick go into the landfill.🗑 Also George Keleshian’s presentation on so-called zero-energy, efficient buildings was interesting — he stressed conservation over generation of electricity, which was a refreshing change.

I have the Save the Pine Bush booth and will get that ready tomorrow. 🎨 I also should probably think about running to the store as I’m very low on groceries. 🍲 It looks like the display is in fairly good shape, but I want to make some more pictures up and run off some of the “coloring” book we are going to have for the kids there.🖍 Looks like nice weather for the Lupine Festival on Saturday.🦋

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly before midnight. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 50 degrees at 3am. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 24th. Light west wind. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 51 degrees. The record low of 33 occurred back in 1980.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous Moon 🌔 with 96% illuminated. The moon will set at 4:35 am. The Flower Moon 🌕 is on Friday night. The sun will rise at 5:32 am with the first light at 5:00 am, which is one minute and one second earlier than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 9 hours and 20 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 2 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 65 degrees at 4pm. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 2nd. May weather is nice for a change. Maximum dew point of 47 at 8am. Northwest wind around 8 mph. Another fairly nice day. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became partly cloudy by afternoon. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 72 degrees. The record high of 89 was set in 1991.

A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 67. Maximum dew point of 46 at 7am. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 71. Maximum dew point of 47 at 2pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 70 degrees. Certainly if this wasn’t lupine festival week I’d be heading out of town. 🐸 Sunday I think I’ll probably do a local hike although I’ll consider going down to West Saugerties and hiking Platte Clove. 🍀 Some models now though are talking about more clouds and rain for Sunday.🌦 Somehow, I’m inclined to believe them.

In four weeks on June 12 the sun will be setting at 8:33 pm,🌄 which is 22 minutes and 40 seconds later then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 82 and 57 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 77 and 56 degrees. The record high of 95 degrees was set back in 2017.

Looking ahead, 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ is in 3 weeks, Last Day of Session 🏛 is in 5 weeks, Cow Appreciation Day 🐂 is in 2 months, Altamont Fair Opens 🎡 is in 13 weeks, State Fair Opens 🎡 is in 14 weeks, September 11th 🇸 is in 17 weeks, More Night then Day 🌌 is in 19 weeks and Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 88 weeks.