Good morning! Happy Thursday. Rain and 75 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a south breeze at 13 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 69 degrees. The skies will clear around 1 pm.

Back home again 🏡 after a week in the Adirondacks. It was a week ago that I left for the Adirondacks. Last night I got things mostly unpacked and will finish up this morning. It’s not a bad thing though as I needed a good shower, 🚿 I was running low on supplies 🍎, and it’s quite wet 💦 this morning.

All good things have to come to an end. ☀ The Adirondacks trip over but I might be back in a few weeks – not this weekend but maybe the following weekend. I think it won’t long before I’m back there. I’m pretty sure that this remote work is coming to an end as Phase 3 of the reopening gets underway.

Today will have showers and thunderstorms likely before 4pm, then isolated showers between 4pm and 5pm, then isolated showers and thunderstorms after 5pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a high of 85 degrees at 3pm. Eight degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 70 at 9am. Southwest wind around 14 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 73 degrees. The record high of 94 was set in 1947.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:56 pm with sun having an altitude of 70.5° from the due south horizon (-0.3° vs. 6/21). The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:51 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (296°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (303°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:34 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 27 seconds with dusk around 9:08 pm, which is 32 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:54 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 75 degrees. The dew point will be 59 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 9 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 16 minutes of daytime, an increase of 39 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 57 degrees at 4am. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical night around June 15th. Maximum dew point of 62 at 6pm. West wind 5 to 9 mph. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 50 degrees. The record low of 38 occurred back in 1972.

On this day in 1963, Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam. 🔥 The self-immolation would be captured on film and would go around the world. On the same day, John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that propsed equal access to public facilities, ✊ end segregation in education and guarantee federal protection for voting rights.☑

Cool but sunny this weekend. ☀ Saturday, a slight chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 74. Northwest wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Maximum dew point of 50 at 7pm. Sunday, a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 73. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Maximum dew point of 54 at 7pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 77 degrees.