Good morning! Happy Independence Day! 🎇 Partly cloudy and 67 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ Calm wind. The dew point is 65 degrees. The skies will clear around 8 am.

Going to be another hot summer day. ☀ At least it will be sunny and the humidity is going to be dropping. I want to fix the loose wire in my truck cap and then I’ll head out fishing 🎣 for a bit before heading out to the folks house for dinner. 🍣

Independence Day will have patchy dense fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 88 degrees at 4pm. Six degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 67 at 9am. Calm wind becoming north around 5 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 91 degrees. The record high of 104 was set in 1911.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:01 pm with sun having an altitude of 70.2° from the due south horizon (-0.6° vs. 6/21). The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:54 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 8:37 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 26 seconds with dusk around 9:10 pm, which is 15 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the southeast (129°) at an altitude of 6° from the horizon, 236,789 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:56 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 79 degrees. The dew point will be 63 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 15 hours and 12 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 52 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 61 degrees at 5am. Typical for tonight. Maximum dew point of 63 at 8pm. Light west wind. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies. It was humid. It got down to 69 degrees. The record low of 44 occurred back in 1982.

On this day in 1776, The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress. 51 years later, slavery would be banned in New York State in 1821. 🗽 Starting the day after Independence Day 1967, you would be able to FOIL the Federal Government, after U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into law on July 4, 1966. Then citizens could request information on how much the federal government spent on fireworks the night before.