Good morning! Happy July! It’s a pretty cloudy and 66 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. The dew point is 64 degrees. Not a real nice day but wait there is more. The skies will clear around 8 pm.

Today will have a slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Mostly cloudy ⛅, with a high of 79 degrees at 1pm. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 21st. Maximum dew point of 65 at 11am. Northwest wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 85 degrees. The record high of 99 was set in 1913.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:00 pm with sun having an altitude of 70.5° from the due south horizon (-0.4° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:55 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (296°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (303°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:38 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 27 seconds with dusk around 9:11 pm, which is 8 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the south-southeast (164°) at an altitude of 28° from the horizon, 229,292 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:57 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 75 degrees. The dew point will be 64 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 15 hours and 15 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 40 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10pm, then a slight chance of showers between 10pm and 11pm. Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy ☁, with a low of 62 degrees at 4am. Two degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 64 at 6pm. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies. It became somewhat humid as the night progressed. It got down to 65 degrees. The record low of 40 occurred back in 1978.

On this day in 1963, ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail. ✉ It is obvious that they added the zip code to the sign of the Tupper Lake Post Office sometime after the rest of the building because the font is very wrong for the obsessive compulsive in our community. After all, if you get a zip code wrong, the best thing that can happen is you have a very scornful postal clerk, and the worst thing that can happen is your mail isn’t delivered. Always double check zip codes.

Also in 1968, the UAW becomes a seperate entity from AFL-CIO over policy disputes. 🔧 The UAW would rejoin the AFL-CIO 13 years later in 1981. That basically is irrelevant ancient history at this point. Most people in the seventies were smoking 🚬 pot while assembling cars during the malaise era and its all but been forgotten.

Saturday will hot 🔥. It will be mostly sunny, with a high near 86. Maximum dew point of 65 at 7pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 82 degrees. Might be a nice day for fishing 🎣 and maybe a paddle. 🚣

I am thinking of Sunday possibly going out to Vermont. ⛺ I am thinking of camping up along the Deerfield River and working up there from the tent. Might be a nice cool place to beat the heat and a change from the Adirondacks. Best of all I can stay for up to 14 days in a 30 day period but I doubt I’d stay that long. But it would be nice to have a camp and not have to move every three days but I would need to get ice frequently due to the heat. ❄ Albany County with fewer than 400 Coronavirus cases per million is not subject to the Vermont quarantine anymore.