Good morning! It may be National Relaxation Day but I’m still dripping in sweat from walking down to the Park and Ride. Partly cloudy and 72 degrees in Delmar. Calm wind. The dew point is 66 degrees. The skies will clear around 8 am.

Today will be mostly sunny, with a high of 86 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees above normal. Why do all the nice days happen on Mondays when I’m not on vacation? Calm wind becoming northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Maximum dew point of 67 at 9am. The record high of 96 was set in 1959. The sun will set at 7:55 pm with dusk around 8:25 pm, which is 1 minutes and 29 seconds earlier than yesterday. Today will have 13 hours and 52 minutes of daylight, a decrease of 2 minutes and 33 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of showers after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low of 67 degrees at 5am. Seven degrees above normal. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Maximum dew point of 65 at 7pm. The record low of 41 occurred back in 1972.

Cloudy periods:
Tuesday – Mostly cloudy from 3 am to 3 pm. Cloudy from 3 pm to 8 pm. Mostly cloudy from 8 pm to midnight.
Wednesday – Mostly cloudy from midnight to 6 pm.
Next Monday – Mostly cloudy from 4 am to 8 am.

Rainy periods:
Tuesday – Slight chance of rain from 2 am to 5 am. Chance of rain from 5 am to 6 am. Chance of rain and slight chance of thunderstorms from 6 am to 1 pm. Rain and thunderstorms from 1 pm to midnight. 0.89 inches.
Wednesday – Rain and thunderstorms from midnight to 3 am. Chance of rain and slight chance of thunderstorms from 3 am to 8 am. Chance of rain from 8 am to 1 pm. Slight chance of rain from 1 pm to 8 pm. 0.19 inches.
Thursday – Slight chance of rain and thunderstorms from 8 am to 8 pm.
Friday – Slight chance of rain and thunderstorms from 8 am to 8 pm.
Sunday – Slight chance of rain and thunderstorms from 8 am to 8 pm. Chance of rain and thunderstorms from 8 pm to midnight.
Monday – Chance of rain and thunderstorms from midnight to 8 am.

Most of the week will be muggy (dew point greater then 64) but nothing like the weekend:
Monday – Muggy from 8 am to noon. 72-82 degrees. Heat Index 84. Dew Point 65-67.
Tuesday – Muggy from 8 am to midnight. 70-84 degrees. Heat Index 88. Dew Point 66-71.
Wednesday – Muggy from midnight to 11 pm. 71-85 degrees. Heat Index 88. Dew Point 65-71.
Saturday – Muggy from 1 pm to 10 pm. 73-84 degrees. Heat Index 86. Dew Point 65-66.

For the weekend, Saturday afternoon looks to be somewhat muggy but not exceptionally muggy for August. I think it looks like a nice fall weekend. 

No exceptionally warm temperatures expected this week although nights will be somewhat warmer then normal, making for modestly difficult sleeping (but the humidity should be down a bit):
Tonight will be warm. 67 degrees. 60 normal. 41 record (1972). Partly Cloudy then Slight Chance of Showers.
Tuesday night will be hot. 71 degrees. 60 normal. 40 record (1979). Heavy Rain.
Saturday night will be warm. 65 degrees. 59 normal. 42 record (1977). Partly Cloudy.

In 1969, the Woodstock Music Festival Opens on Max Yasgur’s at that time very  large CAFO dairy farm in Bethel, much to the distaste of his neighbors and fellow community members. He was a fairly innovative farm, they processed the raw milk on site and had a delivery service, like Meadowbrook Farms locally in Clarksville. They had some awesome bands in an already mucky farm field which had been leased out because Max’s corn was growing poorly due to the soil moisture that year. Max figured he could turn a profit that rough year, and plow and reseed the crops for the harvest of 1970. Despite the crowds that’s pretty much what happened. Max retired from the dairy business a few years later, in part because so many people refused to by Max Yasgur’s milk over disgust over the problems the festival caused to the region.

On this day in 1970, President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors. To this day, gold bugs have had a fixation on this day.

There are 3 weeks until Labor Day when the sun will be setting at 7:21 pm with dusk at 7:49 pm. The average high temperature is 76 degrees, with a record high of 91 in 1973. The unofficial end of summer will be here before you know it.

I’m really hoping for a nice weekend, as I’m hoping to get up to Piseco-Powley Road one last this summer. I don’t know what the weather will be the rest of the weekends this summer, nor do I know my work schedule. But I’m really hopeful for this weekend. It would be wonderful if it was hot and sunny and I could spend a lot of time in the potholers. They’re probably is a decent flow after the heavy rains they got this past weekend in that part of the state.