Good morning! Yeah, it’s the Friday before Memorial Day Weekend! Five in the morning and I’m up and going. Chomping on a pop tart and cold coffee ☕, getting ready to take a shower, double checking my packing list 📃 then it’s north. Honestly I didn’t sleep well last night 😴 as I was excited about the weekend to come. Two weeks to 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️.

Mild morning today, sun will be rising soon. 🌇 Mostly clear and 51 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a south breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 46 degrees.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 81 degrees at 4pm. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 26th. Maximum dew point of 54 at 5pm. South wind 5 to 9 mph. Going to be a nice warm and sunny day. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 71 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1911.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 67.9° from the due south horizon (-2.9° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:37 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (293°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (300°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:19 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 19 seconds with dusk around 8:51 pm, which is 58 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:34 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 73 degrees. The dew point will be 56 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 8 mph. Tomorrow will have 14 hours and 53 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 44 seconds over today.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly after 11pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 60 degrees at 6am. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around June 27th. Maximum dew point of 58 at 2am. South wind 3 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 56 degrees. The record low of 36 occurred back in 1967.

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers, mainly before 5pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 74 degrees at 4pm. ☁ Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 31st. More sun up north. ⛅ Maximum dew point of 59 at 7am. North wind 5 to 9 mph becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 72 degrees. The record high of 93 was set in 1964.

Looking ahead to Sunday, sunny, with a high near 74. Southeast wind 3 to 7 mph. Maximum dew point of 47 at 6pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 72 degrees.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ when the sun will be setting at 8:29 pm with dusk at 9:04 pm. On that day in 2019, we had rain and temperatures between 83 and 55 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 75 degrees. We hit a record high of 97 back in 1925.