Good morning! Monday’s come back around again. They always seem to save the best weather for when I have to work. It’s mostly sunny and 68 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a west-southwest breeze at 10 mph. The dew point is a somewhat humid 58. It has dropped a fair bit from last night when it was in the mid 60s from the rain.

Going to be a nice, sunny and relatively warm day. Looking at a high near 84. West wind 10 to 13 mph. Low humidity today with a dew point around 55. The normal high for today is 75, so it will be about nine degrees above normal. The record high of 94 happened back in 1925.

Tonight the sun will set at 8:30 pm with dusk around 9:05 pm, which is 38 seconds later than yesterday. Those long, early summer nights are nice. Today will have 15 hours and 12 minutes of daylight, an increase of 54 seconds over yesterday.

Mostly clear then isolated showers and mild tonight. We will be isolated showers after 1am. Increasing clouds, with a low around 61. South wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. The normal low for tonight is 54, so it will be about seven degrees above normal. The record low of 37 occured back in 1958.

On this day in 1944, the Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War II. It is popularly known as D-Day.

There are 2 weeks until the First Day of Summer when the sun will be setting at 8:36 pm with dusk at 9:11 pm. The average high temperature is 79 degrees, with a record high of 97 in 1953.

The Fourth of July is a Monday this year. Already local retailers have the sparklers and other New York legal fireworks. I’m going to take an extended weekend that the holiday weekend, either taking off Tuesday or Friday. Also looking at taking off the third or maybe the fourth week of July to head out to the Finger Lakes and play beach bum at the wonderful pool and Adirondack Chairs at the Watkins Glen State Park.

Lots of new maps for the blog this week. Vermont is the focus for the new Google Maps. I was working on a map and looking at demographics of some of the towns in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and found some have a population density of less than 1 per square mile. I thought it was a mistake but in a town with 50 square miles and 26 residents, that makes sense. The Northeast Kingdom is relatively poor but definitely a fascinating place.

While the weekend is a while off, so far it looks decent but cool. I’m still thinking of heading up to the Perkins Clearing area of the Adirondacks, and paddling the Miami River a ways and seeing how many bullhead I can pull out of it.

I didn’t sleep well last night. It’s mostly my fault as I stayed up late working on maps. I’ve been going to bed late all weekend and I just got busy on various projects. The blue light from the computer screen and the early sunrise didn’t help. With the coffee, I’m pretty awake now but I’ll crash by mid morning. At least I took the bus to work, so I know I’ll get home safely at the end of the certainly long day.

Have a great Monday. Do good things and hopefully spend as much time as possible outdoors on this beautiful day.