Good morning! Happy National Dog Day 🐩! Monday is for the dogs, especially this nice final summer morning. Next Monday is Labor Day 👨‍🏭, the unofficial end of summer. Sunny and 55 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 Calm wind. The dew point is 48 degrees. It was forty this morning in Dormansville.

Definitely feel like an autumn morning, well at least a September morning. 🍂In a little over a week the the kids will be back in school 🚸 and the traffic will be back at rush hour. 🚗🚙🚓🚗🚚🚙🚌🚕🚗🚎🚙🚌 I guess I don’t care that much, I’ll leave it up to the driver to negotiate the traffic. 🚍

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 75 degrees at 3pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 8th. Autumn is coming. That said, it’s expected to warm up somewhat come September but no excessively hot weather but maybe one more chance to enjoy the Potholers? Maximum dew point of 49 at 10am. Calm wind becoming southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It became sticky as the day progressed. The high last year was 84 degrees. The record high of 98 was set in 1948.

The sun will set at 7:39 pm with dusk around 8:08 pm, which is one minute and 39 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 70 degrees. The dew point will be 48 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 13 hours and 24 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 43 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 53 degrees at 5am. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 12th. Maximum dew point of 52 at 12am. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It was sticky. It got down to 68 degrees. The record low of 41 occurred back in 1969.

Today in 1920, the 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, 👩 giving women the right to vote in federal elections.☑ Voting is important so I’m told. How else can you send a message to the politicians?

Right now Labor Day Weekend looks quite nice. 😎 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 79. Maximum dew point of 62 at 7am. Sunday, a chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 76. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 58 at 8am. Labor Day also looks quite nice. Typical average high for the weekend is 78 degrees.

I am undecided on my plans for Labor Day Weekend but I’m thinking about taking off Friday so I can get out town early. ⛺ I do need to get some of the beer cans back to the store for recycling, ♻ as they are starting to build up. Probably shop Thursday evening and leave first thing on Friday.

As previously noted, next Monday is Labor Day 👨‍🏭 when the sun will be setting at 7:27 pm with dusk at 7:56 pm. On that day in 2018, we had humid, mostly sunny and temperatures between 83 and 66 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 77 degrees. We hit a record high of 100 back in 1953.