Good morning! Happy Saturday. Happy soon to be hot Summer weekend! Mostly sunny and 60 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. The dew point is 58 degrees. 😉

Today is a nice start to the weekend ☀ sunny and not too humid. Going to get hot later today, and especially tomorrow. Should be a nice day. I had pancakes for breakfast 🍳 and I’m going to take a shower and finish packing then head north. I got to bed early last night and I’m feeling well rested. I’m thinking about hiking back to Broomstick Lake depending on how hot it is up north. Otherwise I’ll just set up camp ⛺ and head to the Potholers. 🏊

Today will be sunny and hot ☀ , with a high of 91 degrees at 3pm. Eight degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 67 at 11am. Calm wind becoming southwest 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, which became light rain by afternoon. It was very sticky. The high last year was 80 degrees. The record high of 100 was set in 1953.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:02 pm with sun having an altitude of 68.3° from the due south horizon (-2.5° 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 7:48 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 8:30 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 20 seconds with dusk around 9:02 pm, which is 45 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:46 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 84 degrees. The dew point will be 66 degrees. There will be a southwest breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 54 minutes of daytime, a decrease of one minute and 38 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 66 degrees at 6am. Four degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 66 at 8pm. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It became very sticky as the night progressed. It got down to 72 degrees. The record low of 47 occurred back in 1875.

Today is the 201th Day of the Year – its a leap year. Only 165 days remain. 📅

On this day in 1969, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives his car off a bridge and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies. 🚙 And in 1984, there were McDonald’s massacre in San Ysidro, California: In a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police. 🔫 After that, California implemented strict new gun control in that state, and there have been no more mass shootings.