Good morning! Where did June go? Cloudy and 66 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a north-northwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 64 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 7 pm.

I woke up much too early this morning 😴 fearing that I had overslept. After traveling and adjusting the alarm ⏰ times on my clock lately, things were all screwed up and when I first looked at my clock I thought it was a quarter before nine, rather than a quarter before six. 🌅 But who would know, it’s such a dark and gray morning.

Not expecting a real nice Tuesday but that’s fine, 💼 I’m working from home today and I have all the supplies I need so I don’t have to go anywhere today. 🏡 Hoping though later it will be nice enough for my evening walk 🚶.

Today will have a chance of showers before 11am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 11am and 3pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 3pm. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 77 degrees at 2pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 13th. Maximum dew point of 65 at 9am. North wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 81 degrees. The record high of 98 was set in 1964.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:00 pm with sun having an altitude of 70.5° from the due south horizon (-0.3° vs. 6/21). The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:55 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 8:38 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 27 seconds with dusk around 9:11 pm, which is 7 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the south (178°) at an altitude of 34° from the horizon, 227,672 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:58 pm. At sunset, look for thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 72 degrees. The dew point will be 64 degrees. There will be a north-northwest breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 15 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 37 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm, then a slight chance of showers. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 63 degrees at 4am. Three degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 64 at 6pm. Northwest wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 60 degrees. The record low of 45 occurred back in 1978.

So if I have Friday off I’ll probably spend the day hiking and fishing 🎣 and I’m going to see about possibly going out to my parents house for the postponed Sunday dinner due to the bad weather last weekend. 🍣 It would be nice to sit out back and catch up with them.

I’m thinking of poking around some of the dirt roads at Partridge Run to see if I still hear that occasionally clunking noise in the truck – it’s not particularly noticeable around town and I don’t want to spend money on something that isn’t going to cause problems in the near future. 🚘 I’m not sure if it’s either a new noise or I’ve gotten overly sensitive. I get so paranoid at times.

On this day in 1971, Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ❎ reducing the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect. Also in 1934, The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler’s violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place. 🔪 Fortunately, we only have obnoxious rhetoric to that impact in our country today.

Looking ahead, there are 18 weeks until Election Day 2020 🗳️ when the sun will be setting at 4:45 pm with dusk at 5:14 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2019, we had partly sunny, rain showers and temperatures between 53 and 30 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 53 degrees. We hit a record high of 75 back in 1990.