Good afternoon! Currently partly cloudy and breezy and 63 degrees in Albany. Breezy, 23 mph breeze from the northwest. Certainly not the warmest afternoon ever, feels more like August then a week and a half until the first day of summer. With weather like this, you would think the leaves would start turning colors.

Mostly clear and cool tonight. We will be Mostly clear, with a low around 46. Breezy, with a northwest wind 16 to 21 mph decreasing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 31 mph. The normal low for tonight is 55, so it will be about nine degrees below normal. Pretty cold for June. LThe record low of 36 occured back in 1975.

Tonight the sun will set at 8:32 pm with dusk around 9:07 pm, which is 34 seconds later than yesterday. Tonight we have a Waxing Crescent Moon with 30% illuminated. The moon will set around 12:37 am. June’s Strawberry Moon is on Monday, June 20th.

Sunny and cool for Friday. We will be Sunny, with a high near 71. Northwest wind 11 to 14 mph. The normal high for Friday is 77, so it will be cool for this time of year. The record high of 96 happened back in 2008.

Thunder and showers are possible for the weekend but I think it will be pleasant but cool. Saturday, a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 77. Light south wind increasing to 5 to 9 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Sunday, isolated showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 73. Breezy. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Typical average high for the weekend is 77 degrees.

In four weeks on July 7 the sun will be setting at 8:34 pm, which is 2 minutes later then today. The average high is 82 degrees, and the record for that date is 97 degrees was set back in 1988.

Traffic is pretty bad on Lark Street and Delaware Ave tonight. I didn’t get out of work early enough to catch the express bus home, so I’m taking the local and traffic is just not moving. I’m not sure what the problem is, because we aren’t anywhere near the Thursday night concert downtown.

Assuming that I ever get home, I will start packing for the weekend. I expect to be a surprisingly quiet weekend for work but I guess anything can change. I got to the kayak on the roof of my truck tonight and get grocery shopping. It would be nice to go down to the park but I don’t see that happening. I might go to the library though to pick up some library books and download maps to my phone.

This has been an incredibly long and aggravating week in many ways, But I’ll sure be happy to be in the Adirondacks by sometime tomorrow night. The campfire and stars will be nice. Traffic really is so bad tonight. Sometimes this happens though.