Good morning! Happy Thursday. Six weeks to Last Sunset After 7 PM 🌆. Fog and 71 degrees at the Elm Avenue Park and Ride. 🌫 There is a south-southeast breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 66 degrees.  Once the fog burns off, the skies should clear and it should be a pretty nice afternoon evening. Not a bad walk down to the Park and Ride, 🚌 another big commercial inspection there today. It’s the only way commercial vehicles can get from Albany points South and West due to road restrictions and low bridges, so that’s why it’s so popular with the commercial vehicles.👮

Tonight at 7 PM I am leading the Save the Pine Bush Hike. 🌲 It’s going to be a night hike, but should be a pretty good one with clouds burn off an the humidity drops down. We will meet up at the Discovery Center and then hike for about two hours — until well after dark, and then do Blueberry Hill Dune to enjoy the stars after dark.🌠 The reason for meeting at the Discovery Center is that the parking lot there is lit all night, which makes it safer to get back to the vehicles after dark.

Later on today, partly sunny 🌤, with a high of 85 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 68 at 10am, then dropping through the afternoon. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 8 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 81 degrees. The record high of 93 was set in 1916.

The sun will set at 7:45 pm with dusk around 8:15 pm, which is one minute and 35 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌤 and temperatures around 79 degrees. The dew point will be 62 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 35 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 39 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of showers. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 59 degrees at 5am. Typical for tonight. Maximum dew point of 62 at 6pm. Northwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 58 degrees. The record low of 44 occurred back in 1988.

Last night was the Save the Pine Bush Dinner featuring Professor Lou Ismay, which you can listen to the SPB Podcasts Page.  Good lasagna and interesting lecture. I avoided drinking caffeinated coffee this time, ☕ but I sure was tired by the time I got home.🐮 I thought about getting milk when I got home, but I waited until this morning to walk over to Stewart’s and buy milk. It turned out I had enough milk at home from the past weekend, and it wasn’t spoiled, so I finished up this morning, and will have more of my favorite cow beverage for tonight.

Today in 1971, twenty of the Camden 28 were arrested. They were a group of “Catholic left” anti-Vietnam War activists who in 1971 planned and executed a raid on a Camden, New Jersey draft board. ✝The raid resulted in a high-profile criminal trial of the activists that was seen by many as a referendum on the Vietnam War and as an example of successful use of jury nullification.✊

Should be a nice final weekend of summer — cool but sunny. 😎 Saturday, sunny, with a high near 77. Calm wind becoming north 5 to 9 mph in the morning. Maximum dew point of 57 at 8pm. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 77. Maximum dew point of 58 at 12pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 79 degrees. Next weekend is Labor Day Weekend, the closing day for most of the state park pools, with many beaches already done for the summer.🏖 Fortunately the Potholers don’t close until it gets too cold, so I might get one more trip up there this autumn.

One month 📅 from now will be Autumn 🍂 when the sun will be setting at 6:52 pm with dusk at 7:20 pm. The average high temperature is 70 degrees, with a record high of 95 in 1897.