Good morning! Where did August go? Tomorrow is September, pew pew. 🐿️🔫 Next Monday is Labor Day 👨‍🏭. Very late this year. Mostly sunny and 50 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind.

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 72 degrees at 1pm. Six degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 16th. Maximum dew point of 54 at 6pm. Everything you need to know. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies. The high last year was 76 degrees. The record high of 93 was set in 1953.

So I have that Zoom meeting this morning, 📹 that I think might be fun to do from down at the park for a change from the library. So many hours of Zoom these days. At least I can flip to another browser tab. 🖥 I also want to see if I can get some newer topographic maps from the USGS to use for comparison sake to the old ones. 🗺 I downloaded some more videos to watch too.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:57 pm with sun having an altitude of 55.8° from the due south horizon (-15° vs. 6/21). Already lost 15 degrees from the first day of summer. A six foot person will cast a 4.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:55 pm with the sun in the west (276°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (282°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:33 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 58 seconds with dusk around 7:59 pm, which is one minute and 42 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the east-southeast (121°) at an altitude of 7° from the horizon, 244,992 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:36 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 69 degrees. The dew point will be 54 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 11 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 46 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 57 degrees at 4am. Typical for tonight. Maximum dew point of 58 at 6am. South wind around 6 mph. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 51 degrees. The record low of 41 occurred back in 1967.

On this day in 1965, Super Guppy took it’s first flight. 🛫The aero Spacelines Super Guppy is a large, wide-bodied cargo aircraft that is used for hauling outsize cargo components. It was the successor to the Pregnant Guppy, the first of the Guppy aircraft produced by Aero Spacelines, which in turn was named for its resemblance to a pregnant guppy. ✈️Five were built in two variants, both of which were colloquially referred to as the “Super Guppy”.

Labor Day Weekend looks very nice. 😎 Saturday, sunny, with a high near 73. Maximum dew point of 53 at 9am. Sunday, sunny, with a high near 78. Maximum dew point of 55 at 11am. Typical average high for the weekend is 76 degrees.

Makes me want to reconsider my plans for the weekend 💭 but I’m still really not sure because I want to avoid the crowds but I need a place with cellphone reception 📶 for work plus I’m not sure what the forecast will actually be by next weekend. Maybe Vermont but I’m undecided. Or maybe tent camping locally? 🏕

As previously noted, next Monday is Labor Day 👨‍🏭 when the sun will be setting at 7:18 pm with dusk at 7:47 pm. On that day in 2019, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 73 and 52 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 76 degrees. We hit a record high of 96 back in 1945.