Good morning! Happy Saturday. A rainy start to the weekend! Rain and 63 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌧️ Calm wind. The dew point is 63 degrees. The skies will clear around 7 pm.

Today will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rain. Cloudy 🌧, with a high of 79 degrees at 3pm. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical day around August 27th. Maximum dew point of 73 at 1pm. South wind 3 to 8 mph. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 79 degrees. The record high of 96 was set in 2018.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:57 pm with sun having an altitude of 56.5° from the due south horizon (-14.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. Well, not today, it’s raining. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:58 pm with the sun in the west (277°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (283°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:36 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 58 seconds with dusk around 8:03 pm, which is one minute and 40 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the southeast (144°) at an altitude of 16° from the horizon, 239,276 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:40 pm. At sunset, look for thunderstorms ⛈️ and temperatures around 76 degrees. The dew point will be 70 degrees. There will be a west-southwest breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 16 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 44 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have showers and thunderstorms likely before midnight, then a slight chance of showers between midnight and 2am. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rain. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 59 degrees at 5am. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical night around August 26th. Maximum dew point of 71 at 6pm. West wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. 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 57 degrees. The record low of 38 occurred back in 1982.

On this day in 1966, the Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco during a thunderstorm ⛈. After this, if you wanted to hear the beatles, you had to listen to them on vinyl records or AM radio.🎙️🥁🎸🎹 Their next album would be Sargent Pepper’s Lonely Club Heart band, and it would have a dramatically different sound then the Love, Love Me Do records.🔊📀

Looking ahead, there are 7 weeks until Northern Zone Regular Season 🦌 when the sun will be setting at 6:09 pm with dusk at 6:37 pm. On that day in 2019, we had rain and temperatures between 52 and 46 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 59 degrees. We hit a record high of 85 back in 1947.