July 24, 2016 Morning

Good morning! Happy Sunday. Partly sunny and 74 degrees in Burdett. Calm wind. The dew point is 58 degrees. A perfect start to what should be a very nice but warm day. 

Today will be mostly sunny, with a high of 89 degrees at 4pm. Seven degrees above normal. Light and variable wind. Maximum dew point of 58 at 10am. The record high of 96 was set in 1941. The sun will set at 8:34 pm with dusk around 9:07 pm, which is 57 seconds earlier than yesterday. Today will have 14 hours and 42 minutes of daylight, a decrease of 1 minutes and 55 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low of 71 degrees at 5am. Nine degrees above normal. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Maximum dew point of 65 at 6am. The record low of 46 occurred back in 1953.

0.3 inch of rain expected between Monday 2am and Tuesday 1am. Within the next four days, a total of 0.3 inches of rain is expected. We could use the rain here in the greater Watkins Glen area, which hasn’t had any rain in almost two months. 

We have some muggy weather coming up. Monday 6am – Monday 6pm. Maximum temperature will be 89 degrees, a heat index reaching 92, and a maximum dew point of 70. Monday 9pm – Tuesday 3am. Maximum temperature will be 79 degrees, a heat index reaching 79, and a maximum dew point of 66.

On this day in 1969, Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean. Mission accomplished! Good for all involved. In 1974, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor. In 1959, at the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a “Kitchen Debate”. I hear the United States wins that one.

There are 1 week until Mutts Day when the sun will be setting at 8:27 pm with dusk at 8:59 pm. The average high temperature is 82 degrees, with a record high of 98 in 1917.