Good morning! Happy Labor Day Weekend Begins 👨‍🏭! Cutting torches stop COVID-19 as they say. Next Friday is September 11th 🇺🇸. I feel like September 11th was a Friday in 2001. Not totally sure, it could have been another day. I just remember how quiet it was with all the planes grounded. ✈ Partly cloudy and 61 degrees at the Green Mountain National Forest. ⛅ There is a west breeze at 13 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 55 degrees.

Morning started out cloudy ☁️ but it’s cleared out, as the sun has risen. That’s good as I need the solar power ☀ for work today. Laptops are power hungry. 🔌 But hopefully I can use my phone 📱 for a lot of the emails and stuff, I might also use it for the Zoom Meeting today 📹 which I wasn’t expecting but it came up.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 66 degrees at 3pm. 11 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 30th. Maximum dew point of 55 at 8am. West wind around 14 mph. A year ago, we had thunderstorm in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 80 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1929.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:52 pm with sun having an altitude of 53.9° from the due south horizon (-16.5° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 4.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:45 pm with the sun in the west (274°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (280°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:23 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 58 seconds with dusk around 7:50 pm, which is one minute and 45 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:26 pm. At sunset, look for clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 61 degrees. The dew point will be 49 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 14 mph. Today will have 13 hours of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 50 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 44 degrees at 6am. 12 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 3rd. West wind 10 to 14 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 52 degrees. The record low of 37 occurred back in 1974.

Tomorrow will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 62 degrees at 3pm. 14 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 10th. Maximum dew point of 46 at 5pm. West wind 9 to 15 mph. A year ago, we had thunderstorm in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 72 degrees. The record high of 92 was set in 2018.

Looking ahead to Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 65. West wind 7 to 9 mph. 🌞 Maximum dew point of 50 at 7pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 76 degrees.

As previously noted, next Friday is September 11th 🇸 when the sun will be setting at 7:08 pm with dusk at 7:37 pm. On that day in 2019, we had hot, humid, partly sunny and temperatures between 87 and 66 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 74 degrees. We hit a record high of 98 back in 1931.