Good morning! Happy Thursday. Sunny, muggy and 69 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☀ There is a south-southwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 65 degrees. The muggy weather ends tomorrow around 4 am. 😓

I thought 💭 about a morning walk 🚶 but it didn’t happen. I like listening to music 🎶 while I walk but with my phone on my last legs 📱 that wasn’t going to happen. Plus on muggy days like today, wearing a mask 😷 is no fun while walking.

Another hot day is on tap. 😰 But it’s expected to get better for Friday when that cold front pushed through. I plan to start my day working from home and then I’ll probably go to the library and work from there. 📚 I have some more books that I’ve ordered to pick up. 📖 Trying to do more summer reading. Maybe if it doesn’t thunder ⚡ this evening I’ll spend some time reading down at the park ⛲.

Today will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between 4pm and 5pm. Partly sunny 🌦, with a high of 84 degrees at 4pm. Two degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 68 at 9am. Southwest wind 6 to 9 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It was sticky. The high last year was 91 degrees. The record high of 100 was set in 1933.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:03 pm with sun having an altitude of 65.7° from the due south horizon (-5.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.7 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:38 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (290°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (296°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:19 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 14 seconds with dusk around 8:49 pm, which is one minute and 6 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the south-southeast (163°) at an altitude of 23° from the horizon, 232,481 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:31 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 75 degrees. The dew point will be 63 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 31 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 7 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 61 degrees at 6am. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around August 2nd. Maximum dew point of 64 at 6pm. Northwest wind 3 to 8 mph. In 2019, we had thunderstorm in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It was sticky. It got down to 65 degrees. The record low of 49 occurred back in 1978.

I need to schedule an oil change today for next week, 🔧 and seriously look at getting a new phone. 📱 My phone isn’t charging well any more and its often slow due to a lack of memory. 💾 I hate to throw away something that is still working but I’m afraid my phone is going to die some day and I’d be left stranded. I’d rather have something that works well as with remote work 📶 I’m very dependent on my phone. 📞

Saturday looks nice but hot, Sunday rainy. ☀ Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 86. North wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the afternoon. Maximum dew point of 64 at 10am. Sunday, a chance of showers after 8am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 82. ☁ Chance of precipitation is 50%. Maximum dew point of 68 at 12pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 82 degrees.