Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Next Tuesday is September 🍎. Cloudy and 72 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a southwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 67 degrees. The skies will clear around 1 pm.

I am glad I ended up getting a new hair trimmer. ✂️ The old one was missing the shorter blades and wasn’t cutting smoothly so my hair got long. 💈 The replacement $25 tool did such a great job trimming my hair I just can’t imagine needing to go to the barber shop anytime soon again. Why pay for something you can do yourself. Even with my inexpensive barber it was like $14 a visit when you throw in a generous tip as I did because I felt bad for the old man who cut my hair 💇🏻. I can keep it a lot shorter now. Hate to replace the old trimmers but I needed a shorter cutting guide and the old one was super dull and cutting very uneven. 🗑 I am much happier with the nice short hair that is evenly cut. The nice thing is that I can now do it as regularly as I want to keep it trimmed more near an even length. I’m learning a lot thanks to Coronavirus. 👾

Today will have a chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Partly sunny 🌦, with a high of 84 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 69 at 10am. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west 12 to 17 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies. The high last year was 77 degrees. The record high of 99 was set in 1947.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:58 pm with sun having an altitude of 57.9° from the due south horizon (-12.9° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:05 pm with the sun in the west (279°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (285°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:43 pm after setting for 3 minutes with dusk around 8:10 pm, which is one minute and 37 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the south-southwest (201°) at an altitude of 26° from the horizon, 229,012 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:48 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 77 degrees. The dew point will be 60 degrees. Breezy, 16 mph breeze ⛅ from the northwest with gusts up to 26mph. Today will have 13 hours and 27 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 41 seconds over yesterday.

Today is going to be a pretty hot one. 😰 I have a lot of online meetings today that I’m hoping if the weather 🌻is nice I’m going to head down to the park 🏞 and do the meetings from there in the lawn chair. It was nice doing that yesterday. I just have to make sure my work laptop is well charged 💻 as I expect to be in meetings all afternoon.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 54 degrees at 5am. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 9th. Maximum dew point of 62 at 6pm. Northwest wind 7 to 15 mph. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 52 degrees. The record low of 40 occurred back in 1942.

By evening it should be quite nice 📚 and I might go down to the park to read for a while, noting how early the sun sets this time of year.

On this day in 1950, President Harry Truman orders the U.S. Army to seize control of the nation’s railroads to avert a strike. 🚂 So much for the boy from Missouri being a socialist.

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 77. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Maximum dew point of 67 at 12pm. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 75. Maximum dew point of 59 at 10am. Typical average high for the weekend is 78 degrees.

I am going to probably stay in town this weekend. 🏡 It doesn’t seem like we are going to have particularly nice weather. The following weekend is Labor Day Weekend and I’m not crazy 🤪 about going out of town that weekend with the crowds. 👩‍👩‍👧‍👧 Sunday might be nice for a hike somewhere though.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Autumn 🍂 when the sun will be setting at 6:52 pm with dusk at 7:20 pm. On that day in 2019, we had a real hot day that was mostly sunny skies , shallow fog 🌫 in the morning and temperatures between 87 and 51 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 70 degrees. We hit a record high of 95 back in 1895.