Good morning! Already Monday, August 20th. Second to the last of meteorological summer. Two weeks to Labor Day 👨‍🏭. Time goes by so quickly. Partly sunny and 65 degrees in Delmar. There is a north breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 58 degrees.

Kind of nice weather for a change, why couldn’t we have this for the weekend? This morning really is first hint that autumn is just around the corner. 🍂 It’s funny to think 2019 is just around the corner and then it will be 2020. That said, the “calendar lies when it says it’s the present time” in the words of Phil Ochs. I look forward to the change of pace that autumn represents and getting away from Albany for a bit.

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞 , with a high of 80 degrees at 3pm. Typical for today. Maximum dew point of 61 at 4pm. North wind 5 to 7 mph becoming east in the afternoon. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies, clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 81 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1937.

The sun will set at 7:48 pm with dusk around 8:18 pm, which is one minute and 34 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly clear skies and 75 degrees. The dew point will be 61 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 40 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 38 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy ☁, with a low of 60 degrees at 5am. One degree above normal. Maximum dew point of 61 at 6pm. Southeast wind around 7 mph. In 2017, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 60 degrees. The record low of 42 occurred back in 1977.

In 2014, seventy-two people are killed in Japan’s Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of landslides caused by a month’s worth of rain that fell in one day. 💧It seems like places that are normally wet climates are only getting wetter while dry climates are getting drier. I wonder what could be causing that? Says the boy with the big jacked up truck.

The first order of business when I get into the office will be to see if I can get Friday off. I think it’s reasonably possible but I have to see what the schedule looks like. 😎 It still looks like a nice weekend and I’m leaning towards to going to Moose River Plains early Friday and if the weather is decent, maybe Pisceo Powley.

Even though the weather wasn’t outstanding, I was able to get a lot done this weekend. 🏡I sealed the rust on my truck with clear coat and sealed the crack in the truck cap window frame that leaks in heavy rain and can cause annoying drip in the truck cap when camping. I checked the fluids and cleaned off the solar panel. Made a bunch of maps, cleaned the bathtub and used drain solvent to help it flow better. Bought groceries for the week. 🚗 Silly but important stuff that needed to get done.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Labor Day 👨‍🏭 when the sun will be setting at 7:25 pm with dusk at 7:54 pm. On that day in 2017, we had rain, drizzle, heavy fog, shallow fog, patches of fog, mist, cloudy skies and temperatures between 58 and 51 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 77 degrees. We hit a record high of 100 back in 1953.