Good morning! Happy World Population Day 👩‍👩‍👧‍👧! Most populations when they get to big ultimately die off due to disease or food shortages. Look at raccoons and rabies. Three weeks to August 🌻. Partly cloudy and 74 degrees at the Elm Ave Park & Ride – CDTA. ⛅ There is a south-southeast breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 68 degrees. Warm now but going to get even warmer later. The skies will clear tomorrow around 1 pm.

I didn’t think it was terribly warm out so far this morning, 🔥 but it certainly will be hot later on. Air conditioning on the bus is nice and when I get to work I’ll drop the curtains down. It won’t be actual air temperature that’s so oppressive but the humidity. Bus driver is flying downtown today. 🚍 I can smell the brakes, he’s working them hard.

Today will be scattered showers before 2pm, then scattered showers and thunderstorms between 2pm and 3pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 3pm. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rain. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 82 degrees at 11am. Typical for today. Maximum dew point of 70 at 10am. Yucky. South wind 6 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 83 degrees. The record high of 98 was set in 1936.

The sun will set at 8:33 pm with dusk around 9:07 pm, which is 31 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 76 degrees. The dew point will be 67 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 5 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 17 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 9pm, then scattered showers and thunderstorms after 9pm. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rain. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 66 degrees at 3am. Four degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 68 at 6pm. South wind 6 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 55 degrees. The record low of 44 occurred back in 1978.

On this day in 1962, live television was transmitted for the first time across the Atlantic Ocean. 🌎 Seems odd nowadays, when so much commerence is global and we can access a server next door as quickly as in France.

Roll out those lazy hazy, crazy days of summer. 😎 Saturday, sunny, with a high near 86. West wind 3 to 5 mph. Maximum dew point of 64 at 7pm. Sunday, sunny, with a high near 84. Maximum dew point of 62 at 6am. Typical average high for the weekend is 83 degrees.

So the plan for the weekend is to leave early Saturday for Schoharie County, do some hiking, 🚶 swim 🏊 then camp. ⛺ I’m hoping the bugs out there won’t be like the Adirondacks. Maybe do some laying back in the hammock. 😴 Probably take NY 990V through the Northern Catskills out there, which is not quite 10 miles long.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until August 🌻 when the sun will be setting at 8:15 pm with dusk at 8:47 pm. On that day in 2018, we had rain and temperatures between 80 and 70 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 82 degrees. We hit a record high of 101 back in 1933.