Good morning! Happy Thursday. Mostly cloudy and 70 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south-southeast breeze at 14 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 63 degrees. The skies will clear around 10 am.

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 82 degrees at 2pm. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around July 27th. Maximum dew point of 63 at 8am. South wind around 15 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. It became humid as the day progressed. The high last year was 92 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1900.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:02 pm with sun having an altitude of 68.6° from the due south horizon (-2.2° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:50 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (294°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (300°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:31 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 21 seconds with dusk around 9:03 pm, which is 40 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:48 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 75 degrees. The dew point will be 62 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 13 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 57 minutes of daytime, a decrease of one minute and 31 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 5am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 64 degrees at 5am. Two degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 62 at 6pm. South wind around 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2019, we had thunderstorm in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It was very sticky. It got down to 73 degrees. The record low of 45 occurred back in 1974.

Yesterday I went to John Wolcott house to look at more historical documents. 🔎 I was quite interested in the history file 📂 we found about Fort Orange. It wasn’t too bad wearing masks 😷 for two hours trying to stay six feet apart ↔ with the air conditioning it was quite bearable. They really have done more to preserve the Fort Orange ruins.

I was thinking it’s been over four months since I’ve been downtown. 🌆 I was watching the old music 🎶 video I posted if Bill Withers Lean on Me and thinking about all of the characters you miss not spending time in the city. Urban grit and grime is certainly different than life in the suburbs. To be fair, I saw more share of ramshackle homes and farms in Vermont and Rennselear County 🐐 last week but its different than the people in the city.

I saw the Wally World had drop in LED fluorescent bulbs 💡 for like $7 so I bought one and tried it out in my fixtures. It’s supposed to work with the magnetic ballast but I couldn’t get it to pass enough current to make it light properly. It’s supposed to work but your supposed to pull the starter on the hot start models – although my doesn’t have a starter because it’s push button start. Tomorrow I’ll take it apart and figure out if I can bypass the ballast – it’s a very simple magnetic ballast.

In 1956, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its very last “Big Tent” show 🎪 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, due to changing economics all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas. 🎇 Now the only thing in tents is fireworks dealers and car dealers when their show rooms are being renovated.

Sunny and hot this weekend. ☀ Saturday, mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 91. West wind 5 to 7 mph. Maximum dew point of 67 at 8am. Sunday, mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 94. Maximum dew point of 70 at 10am. Typical average high for the weekend is 83 degrees.

Definitely going to be a hot weekend. ☀ I’m heading out to Pisceo Powley Road for a three day weekend. Cool off at the Potholers and just check it out and see how damaged and changed the land is up there after the big storm last autumn. 🍂 I haven’t decided if I will bring my kayak. I might not because I’m thinking I may stay in the Adirondacks for a good portion of the week and I don’t want to have to take the kayak on and off for the solar.