Good morning! Happy Saturday. It’s the weekend! Today marks the final month of calendar summer, autumn is one month away on September 22nd. 🍂 After several days lately that felt like autumn, today is going to be a hit one. Partly sunny and 63 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☀ Calm wind. The dew point is 61 degrees.

The plan today is to head out to Schoharie County to swim 🏊🏻‍♂️ and maybe some short hikes at Mine Kill State Park but nothing too dramatic as it’s going to be a balmy late summer afternoon. Pool opens at 10 am and closes at 6 pm but I’m okay with the earlier closing as it gets dark fairly early this time of year and it takes time to set up camp ⛺ and make dinner.

First thought I got to review the document 📂I’m working on for work and send that along. I got it last night and reviewed on my phone but if rather give it a fresh look on the laptop🔎 in the morning. 🌅 I want to run to the store return some beer cans 🍺and maybe get some hot dogs for dinner. 🌭 Looking forward to all the goodies I can get at the farm stands in Schoharie. 🌽🥦🌶️ Should be a great day but hot. ☀

Today will have isolated showers between 1pm and 2pm, then isolated showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 85 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 66 at 11am. Muggy. Calm wind becoming west 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 85 degrees. The record high of 93 was set in 1916.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:59 pm with sun having an altitude of 59° from the due south horizon (-11.9° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.6 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:09 pm with the sun in the west (280°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (287°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:47 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 1 seconds with dusk around 8:15 pm, which is one minute and 35 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the west-southwest (246°) at an altitude of 19° from the horizon, 226,291 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:53 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 79 degrees. The dew point will be 64 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 13 hours and 35 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 39 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 62 degrees at 5am. Three degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 65 at 8pm. Light and variable wind. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 58 degrees. The record low of 44 occurred back in 1988.

Today in 1971, twenty of the Camden 28 were arrested. ⚖️They were a group of “Catholic left” anti-Vietnam War activists who in 1971 planned and executed a raid on a Camden, New Jersey draft board. 👮🏻 The raid resulted in a high-profile criminal trial of the activists that was seen by many as a referendum on the Vietnam War and as an example of successful use of jury nullification. 🏛️

One month 📅 from now will be Autumn 🍂 when the sun will be setting at 6:52 pm with dusk at 7:20 pm. The average high is 7⃣ 0⃣ degrees. The weather when it changes come autumn always changes quickly. But that’s life. The salt belt will return. 🌨