Good morning! Monday’s come back around again. Mostly cloudy and 71 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. The dew point is 65 degrees. The skies will clear around 9 pm.

It looks like the muggers will be with us all week 😰 with humidity and the dew point well in the sixties and real muggy come Friday. For now my plan is stick close to home but I could change my mind. I’ve been thinking about going to the Potholers for some time now but it’s a pain with Piseco Powley Road still not open on the southern end.

Before it gets too hot this morning, I am going to go for a morning walk 🚶 and then take a quick shower and get down to work. I am continuing to crunch numbers 🔢 for the report I’m running but in the afternoon I have to do some more internet research so I’ll go down to the library 📚 where the internet is fast.

Today will have isolated showers between 11am and noon, then isolated showers and thunderstorms after noon. Partly sunny 🌦, with a high of 84 degrees at 2pm. One degree above normal. Maximum dew point of 66 at 8am. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 88 degrees. The record high of 96 was set in 1894.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:02 pm with sun having an altitude of 69.1° from the due south horizon (-1.7° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:51 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (294°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (301°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:33 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 22 seconds with dusk around 9:06 pm, which is 34 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:50 pm. At sunset, look out for possible thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 75 degrees. The dew point will be 64 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 2 minutes of daytime, a decrease of one minute and 23 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have isolated showers and thunderstorms before 10pm. Mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 62 degrees at 4am. Typical for tonight. Maximum dew point of 64 at 6pm. Northwest wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 69 degrees. The record low of 49 occurred back in 1940.

On this day in 1977, the Great 1977 New York City Blackout begins, plunging New York into 24 hours of darkness, chaos, and crime. It really was a dark time in the city. 🌆

Going to be a nice, hot summer weekend. 🏊 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 89. Maximum dew point of 68 at 8am. Sunday, scattered showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 90. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 70 at 9am. Typical average high for the weekend is 83 degrees.