August 30, 2018 Morning

Good morning! Happy Thursday. Two weeks to State Primary Day 🗳️. Already voted by absentee. Mostly cloudy and 73 degrees in Delmar. β›… With the lower temperatures throughout high dew point doesn’t feel, although the air definitely feels like it’s drying up. There is a west-northwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 70 degrees. The skies will clear around noontime.

Can you believe it’s already Thursday? Tonight I have to get packed for the Labor Day Weekend which starts tomorrow. β›Ί It seems like it was last weekend only a few days ago. It should be nice driving up through the Adirondacks and having a long weekend at Moose. Tomorrow night I’m only heading to Wells/Speculator I think.

Today will have a slight chance of showers before noon. Partly sunny 🌞 , with a high of 83 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 70 at 8am. Going to still be quite muggy but it is expected to become somewhat less humid as the day progresses. Northwest wind 6 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 77 degrees. The record high of 98 was set in 1953.

The sun will set at 7:32 pm with dusk around 8:01 pm, which is one minute and 41 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly clear skies and75 degrees. The dew point will be 63 degrees. There will be a north breeze at 9 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 13 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 45 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy ☁, with a low of 60 degrees at 5am. Three degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 64 at 6pm. North wind 6 to 9 mph. In 2017, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 51 degrees. The record low of 37 occurred back in 1965.

Going past the dry cleaners this morning, I was thinking I might have forgotten something there, so I will have to check at home. They have my number so I think they would have called but I don’t remember.👔

On this day in 1967, Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. 🏫And in 1974, a powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan.💣 Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until State Primary Day 🗳️ when the sun will be setting at 7:08 pm with dusk at 7:36 pm. On that day in 2017, we had rain, fog, shallow fog, patches of fog, mist, mostly cloudy skies and temperatures between 79 and 50 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 73 degrees. We hit a record high of 92 back in 1948.

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