Good evening! A pleasant summer evening without too much humidity. Mostly sunny and 80 degrees in Delmar. There is a west-northwest breeze at 14 mph. The dew point is 57 degrees.

Tonight will be mostly clear, with a low around 59. One degree below normal. Northwest wind 5 to 8 mph becoming calm after midnight. The record low of 47 occurred back in 1938.

Tonight the sun will set at 8:37 pm with dusk around 9:11 pm, which is 6 seconds earlier than yesterday. Those days sure are getting shorter quickly. Just wait until September 21st.Tonight we have a Waning Crescent Moon with 30% illuminated. The moon will rise around 1:42 am. July’s Buck Moon is on Tuesday, July 19th.

Thursday will be sunny, with a high near 83. Two degrees above normal. Calm wind becoming west around 6 mph in the afternoon. The record high of 98 was set in 1964.

A nice Independence Day Weekend coming up with seasonable temperatures. Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 78. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 80. For Independence Day, sunny with a high near 84. Nothing like Independence Day in 1911, when Albany baked under 104 degree weather. Typical average high for the weekend is 82 degrees. For the most part low humidity all weekend through the Fourth. You don’t get nice weather like this much in Albany.

In four weeks on July 27 the sun will be setting at 8:20 pm, which is 16 minutes earlier then today. The average high is 82 degrees, and the record for that date is 97 degrees was set back in 1955.