Good evening! Cloudy, damp and humid and 72 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁️ Calm wind. The dew point is 67 degrees. The skies will clear around 10 pm.

It was a nice weekend even if things didn’t totally go to plan. 🏖 Glimmerglass was nice, I had always wanted to check that out in the summer. The beach was pretty good, a rather large beach I have to say which made it not feel crowded despite being quite popular – social distancing was quite easy to follow. 👥 Otsego Lake is quite pretty this time of year compared to the autumn when it is quite gray.

Tonight will have a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm. Mostly cloudy ⛈️, with a low of 66 degrees at 4am. Seven degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 67 at 10pm. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 53 degrees. The record low of 42 occurred back in 1971.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon with 30% illuminated. At 10 PM, the moon was in the west-southwest (250°) at an altitude of 6° from the horizon, some 226,602 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by February 11^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The moon will set in the west-southwest (256°) at 10:32 pm. The darkest hour is at 12:59 am, followed by dawn at 5:42 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:12 am in the east-northeast (74°) and last for 3 minutes and 1 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 4 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:50 am with sun in the east (80°). Tonight will have 10 hours and 28 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 41 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1pm. Partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 87 degrees at 2pm. Eight degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 70 at 11am. Tomorrow is going to be super hot and humid for sure. Maybe some thunderstorm ⛈ will help cool things down. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. 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 in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 75 degrees. The record high of 95 was set in 1947.

I have that Zoom meeting tomorrow 📹 so I’ll have to shave and get cleaned up and go down to the library to do the meeting. It’s going to be absurdly hot but I guess I could work down at the park under a tree if it’s too uncomfortable. After the Zoom meeting I can come home I guess and work by the fan. ☢️

In four weeks on September 20 the sun will be setting in the west (272°) at 6:55 pm,🌄 which is 48 minutes and 26 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny, patches of fog and temperatures between 79 and 42 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 71 and 50 degrees. The record high of 90 degrees was set back in 1946.

After listening to the Off Farm Income Podcast 🎧 the other day and driving through rural Schoharie County I’m increasingly thinking 💭 I need to set harder goals towards owning my own land and moving out to the country. 🚜 Affordable small towns in a low tax state – where I can buy land a lot of land cheap with saved up cash should be my priority. 🏡 If the property is off grid and I don’t need many services then I can work a lower paid job and still live a good life out in the country with all the freedoms of small town living. 🐐 Maybe 2030 is too soon 🔜 but I think 2035 is a very realistic option.

Looking ahead, Average High 70 🎑 is in 4 weeks, More Night then Day 🌌 is in 5 weeks, Last Sunset After 6:30 PM 🌆 is in 6 weeks, November 🥧 is in 10 weeks, First Sunday of Advent ✝️ is in 15 weeks, Saint Nicholas Day 🎅 is in 15 weeks, Festivus 🍖 is in 4 months, Latest Sunrise of the Winter 🌄️ is in 19 weeks, National Cheese Lovers Day 🧀 is in 5 months and Valentines Day ❤️ is in 25 weeks.