Good morning! Happy Thursday. Next Thursday is Last Dusk After 7 PM 🌆. Mostly cloudy and 57 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a south breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 51 degrees. BJ Thomas’ Raindrops Keeps Falling on My Head is playing on the radio. 📻 I brought my rain coat, but think that I might need it later. 💦 Ironically, downstate is going to beautiful today while the Adirondacks will get soaked.

A week from now I’ll be almost ready for my West Virginia trip. ⏰ I want to leave before dawn on that Saturday morning so it’s early enough that I can get breakfast 🍳 in Pennsylvania and have the morning to explore the Northern Tier of Pennsylvania. The second day I’ll drive up Hyner View before driving down to West Virginia via US 220 and Interstate 99. I also have most of the rest of the week planned out. ⛺ A

Today will have a chance of showers before 2pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 2pm and 5pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5pm. Mostly cloudy ☁, with a high of 71 degrees at 12pm. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 20th. Maximum dew point of 60 at 2pm. South wind 7 to 9 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. It was sticky. The high last year was 80 degrees. The record high of 90 was set in 2017.

The sun will set at 6:46 pm with dusk around 7:14 pm, which is one minute and 46 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 65 degrees. The dew point will be 57 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 11 hours and 59 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 51 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 47 degrees at 6am. Typical for tonight. West wind 3 to 7 mph. In 2018, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 50 degrees. The record low of 24 occurred back in 1947.

A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 81. South wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Maximum dew point of 64 at 7pm. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 70. Maximum dew point of 58 at 6am. Typical average high for the weekend is 67 degrees.

Tonight I’m heading to the Guilderland library to do some Pine Bush research 🌲so John Wolcott will have to take a rain check ☑. I emailed him about maybe Friday or Saturday. I’d probably do a hike out only part of the day Saturday to Five Rivers Environmental Education Center 🐸.

As previously noted, next Thursday is Last Dusk After 7 PM 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 6:34 pm with dusk at 7:02 pm. On that day in 2018, we had partly sunny skies, patches of fog and temperatures between 65 and 50 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 65 degrees. We hit a record high of 83 back in 1967.