Good morning! Happy World Mosquito Day 🕷️! I know, that’s a spider but emojis are limited. 🕸 Three weeks to 6:30 Sunrise 🌇. That said, sun still rises much earlier here than the Finger Lakes. Mostly sunny and 55 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. The dew point is 49 degrees.

Coffee ☕ and pancakes for breakfast. 🥞 A good breakfast and it’s a nice enough of a day I should be outside. It would be a nice morning to be eating outside. I think in a bit I’ll head out for my morning walk 🚶🏻.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 76 degrees at 3pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 5th. Maximum dew point of 52 at 10am. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. Going to be a great day, not real humid but wait for the weekend. 😰 A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It became somewhat humid as the day progressed. The high last year was 87 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1937.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:00 pm with sun having an altitude of 59.6° from the due south horizon (-11.2° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:12 pm with the sun in the west (281°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (288°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:50 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 2 seconds with dusk around 8:18 pm, which is one minute and 33 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the west (272°) at an altitude of 9° from the horizon, 227,751 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:57 pm. At sunset, look for clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 71 degrees. The dew point will be 53 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 5 mph. Tomorrow will have 13 hours and 38 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 39 seconds over today.

Tonight will be clear 🌃, with a low of 56 degrees at 5am. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 3rd. Maximum dew point of 54 at 8pm. Light south wind. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It became very sticky as the night progressed. It got down to 68 degrees. The record low of 42 occurred back in 1977.

In 2014, seventy-two people are killed in Japan’s Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of landslides caused by a month’s worth of rain that fell in one day. 💦 That sounds like it was a pretty wet day.

A hot and humid weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, sunny, with a high near 85. Calm wind becoming southwest around 6 mph in the afternoon. Maximum dew point of 64 at 10am. Sunday, a chance of showers after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 85. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 66 at 11am. Typical average high for the weekend is 80 degrees.

I don’t think I would mind spending my weekend 🏊🏻‍♂️ at the Mine Kill Pool, getting in some swimming before it closes for the autumn. Definitely wear the banada mask 😷 on the bathroom 🚿 but it’s fine to take it off on the pool deck if I maintain social distancing. 🍂 Autumn is right around the corner and things will be closing up fast.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until 6:30 Sunrise 🌇 when the sun will be setting at 7:13 pm with dusk at 7:42 pm. On that day in 2019, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 77 and 52 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 75 degrees. We hit a record high of 96 back in 1931.