Good evening! Partly clear and 75 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. The dew point is 69 degrees. The muggy weather ends tomorrow around 6 pm. 😓 Definitely kind of muggy evening 🌃 but I think that thunderstorm helped.

I went over to John Wolcott’s house 🔎and was looking through his photo collection 📸 and documents 📄 some more. Some of those photos I found were quite neat. A pretty good thunderstorm ⛈ rolled through right when I was leaving but it let up to almost nothing by the time I got on the highway 🚘 but it still was a dark and rainy drive home with a few limbs down on the road. 🍃At least I didn’t loose power where I live.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌌, with a low of 66 degrees at 6am. Seven degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 69 at 10pm. Light south wind. A hot night, ☢️ I’m stripped down laying by the fan. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 54 degrees. The record low of 35 occurred back in 1940.

Before visiting John Wolcott I went to Walmart for supplies and food. 🍞🧀🌯 I bought a replacement hair trimmer as the one I had was getting plugged up and dull and lacked the shorter blades I need for cutting my hair shorter. ✂ I was going to order another set of cutting guides online but they were nearly the price of a new unit. I’ll have to see what parts I can salvage from the old one like maybe the power cord 🔌 before tossing. 🗑️ Maybe some wire from the motor too.

If you don’t believe autumn is coming, 🌽 I saw a farm in Washington County was already chopping silage for the fall. 🐮 Dairy cattle with their high nutrition needs rely a lot on silage and unlike most other dairy commodities like high moisture corn or hay, silage is almost entirely grown on farms where it is fed. Too heavy and to risky for spoilage for it to be traded. Outside of hay its the biggest part of dairy cow feed. All of it has to be chopped before the first frost or it will be destroyed. Next Tuesday is September 1st, Labor Day is late this year.

Tonight will have a First Quarter 🌓 Moon with 41% illuminated. At 10 PM, the moon was in the west-southwest (237°) at an altitude of 11° from the horizon, some 227,572 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by February 13^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The moon will set in the west-southwest (249°) at 11:05 pm. The darkest hour is at 12:59 am, followed by dawn at 5:44 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:13 am in the east-northeast (74°) and last for 3 minutes Sunrise is one minute and 5 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:51 am with sun in the east (81°). Tonight will have 10 hours and 30 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 41 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between noon and 5pm. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rain. Partly sunny 🌧, with a high of 82 degrees at 2pm. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around August 9th. Maximum dew point of 69 at 9am. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west 11 to 16 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies. The high last year was 77 degrees. The record high of 99 was set in 1947.

In four weeks on September 21 the sun will be setting in the west (271°) at 6:54 pm,🌄 which is 48 minutes and 36 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had sunny, patches of fog and temperatures between 84 and 50 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 70 and 50 degrees. The record high of 95 degrees was set back in 1895.

Looking ahead, Labor Day 👨‍🏭 is in 2 weeks, Columbus Day 🛥️ is in 7 weeks, Cyber Monday 🛍️ and Beaver Moon 🌕 is in 14 weeks, First Day of Winter ☃️ is in 17 weeks, Christmas Eve 🎅 is in 4 months, 4:30 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 18 weeks, Winnie the Pooh Day 🍯 is in 21 weeks, Martin Luther King Day 🖤 is in 21 weeks, 5 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 22 weeks and February 🌧 is in 23 weeks.