Just a rather drizzly, cold wet morning, although it could be a lot colder or wetter. 54 degrees which appears to be the high temperature for the day with more rain later. A pretty cold day for the second week of June. Don’t worry, a week from now still looks like it will be real swelter. Temperatures in the 90s and dew points will remind us what summer is all about.

The sun will set at 8:30 pm with dusk around 9:05 pm, which is 40 seconds later than yesterday. At sunset, look for light rain and 50 degrees. There will be a north-northeast breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 12 minutes of daytime, an increase of 57 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have showers likely, mainly before midnight. Cloudy, with a low of 47 degrees at 3am. Seven degrees below normal. North wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. In 2016, it got down to 58 degrees with rain and mostly cloudy skies. The record low of 37 occurred back in 1958.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Independence Day when the sun will be setting at 8:36 pm with dusk at 9:10 pm. On that day in 2016, we had mostly sunny skies and temperatures between 87 and 54 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 82 degrees. We hit a record high of 104 back in 1911. Back when the weather station was located downtown.

I wonder if we will hit one hundred in Albany this year? The last time that happened was 1953, so it’s been 64 years since they’ve seen a hot air mass powerful enough to push the Albany International Airport to three digits. That said, we had several days that summer from hell when it got up 100. I could see it happening just so God can give Trump a middle finger over the Paris Accord.

There really hasn’t been a a real warm summer in several years. Last year had a few really steamy days but it was more a very high dew point then a lot of heat. Plus I was on vacation that week that was really hot. 2015 was more a mix with the hot weather mostly on the weekends. And the summer of 2014 was quite cold. Maybe because I work in an air conditioned building downtown I don’t notice it much.