Good morning! Happy July 🏊🏿! Two weeks to Cow Appreciation Day 🐂. Cloudy, humid and 70 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁️ Calm wind. The dew point is 67 degrees. The skies will clear Saturday around 10 pm.

While the heat is not what it was yesterday, it still is a really humid morning 💧 with rain expected later. I will have to make sure to bring my rain coat when I head into the office is a bit as it should be raining later based on the forecast. 🏢 The morning walk 🚶🏻 is what to be expected, I made coffee ☕ first so it wouldn’t be so hot when breakfast happened and I could ice it down with ice cubes.

Today will have a chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 11am. Cloudy 🌦, with a high of 79 degrees at 3pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 15th. Maximum dew point of 67 at 7am. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had rain in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 83 degrees. The record high of 99 was set in 1913.

I have a busy day on tap. 📞 I need to call my psycho analyst and cancel the next session, renew my AAA auto club membership, 🚘 add money to my Navigator bus card 💳, go back to the more basic cellphone plan for next month now that library is re-openned 📱, and adjust some of my investments 💰.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:00 pm with sun having an altitude of 70.5° from the due south horizon (-0.4° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:55 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (296°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (303°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:38 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 26 seconds with dusk around 9:11 pm, which is 8 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:57 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 73 degrees. The dew point will be 67 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 15 hours and 15 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 39 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 64 degrees at 4am. Three degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 67 at 7pm. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. In 2020, we had mostly clear skies. It became humid as the night progressed. It got down to 63 degrees. The record low of 40 occurred back in 1978.

On this day in 1963, ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail. ✉ If you get a zip code wrong, the best thing that can happen is you have a very scornful postal clerk, and the worst thing that can happen is your mail isn’t delivered. Always double check zip codes. Also in 1968, the UAW becomes a seperate entity from AFL-CIO over policy disputes. 🤜🏻 The UAW would rejoin the AFL-CIO 13 years later in 1981.

Weekend forecast is sliding down hill again. ⛈️Saturday, a chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 66. North wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Maximum dew point of 59 at 11am. Sunday, Independence Day, a chance of showers between 8am and 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 75. Chance of precipitation is 30%. And for Monday, more typical nice summer weather that will be sunny , with a high near 84. Typical average high for the weekend is 83 degrees.

While not a complete wash out, 🌦️this weekend is still going to pretty cool and wet especially up north so I will probably stay in town with hope for better weather the next week. If the forecast for a week from Friday improves, I might reschedule my eye appointment 👀 for the next week.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Cow Appreciation Day 🐂 when the sun will be setting at 8:31 pm with dusk at 9:04 pm. On that day in 2020, we had partly sunny, patches of fog and temperatures between 86 and 65 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 84 degrees. We hit a record high of 96 back in 1997.