Good morning! Happy May Day 2021 🕊 ! All the socialists of the world will rejoice. 🌹 As will black flies. 🐜 Is there much of a difference? I’m getting brainwashed from work. Five weeks to 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ . Summer is coming. Or so we tell ourselves, and our nation is plunged towards summer every day. Can’t stop the rotation of earth around the sun. Overcast and 39 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Breezy, ️16 mph breeze from the northwest 🌬 with gusts up to 29 mph 💨💨💨. The skies will clear around 9 am.

Today will be mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny ☁, with a high of 58 degrees at 4pm.  Based on the appearance of the Olana Sky Cam, already clearing in Catskill. Seven degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 15th. Northwest wind 11 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 61 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 2001. There was a dusting of snow in 1978.❄

Not sure what my plans are for the day, but I do want to shower 🛀 and then go out somewhere. 🚶‍♀️ I am really running low on supplies so I should think about going shopping. 👜 Now I just need to remember to bring my muzzle 😷 should I want to run into the store, as I’m not always wearing a bandana when I’m outside, because I am fully vaccinated. 💉 Didn’t have a mask when I went for my evening walk, which is why I am drinking black coffee ☕ this morning as I’m out of milk. 🐮

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 62.6° from the due south horizon (-8.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:17 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (285°). 📸

The sunset is in the west-northwest (292°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:56 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 6 seconds with dusk around 8:26 pm, which is one minute and 7 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:05 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 54 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 6 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 29 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of showers before 3am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 45 degrees at 4am. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 8th. West wind around 6 mph becoming south in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2020, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 43 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1974.

One month 📅 from now will be June 🍹 when the sun will be setting at 8:26 pm with dusk at 9:00 pm. The average high temperature is 74 degrees, with a record high of 91 in 1917. A few years ago, but then again we can certainly have 90 degree days in May. I remember a few years back when we had a real baking Memorial Day Weekend and I was up in the Green Mountain Forest, shooting guns, drinking beer and lighting off fireworks. 🎆 Fun times.