Good morning folks. Happy Friday. The weekend is just around the corner. Currently 60 degrees and cloudy in Delmar. Going to get up to 67 degrees with showers moving in during the next few hours. It’s going to be a wet one today.

It is going to be fairly cloudy and rainy the next few days with 1/2 inch or more expected by Sunday when a front will come through and give us sunny but cold weather. The best chance for thunderstorms is tomorrow afternoon, but we might have some today too.

Yesterday we got to 80 degrees in Albany, for the second time of the year but with the breeze and low dew point in the 30s it felt pretty nice. Those hazy, hot and humid days are still just around the corner.

Two weeks until the start of the Memorial Day Weekend. I think I can already see the traffic building on the Adirondack Northway for the weekend. Although a lot depends on the weather, but I’ve seen years when traffic for holiday weekends is backed up on the Northway from the Warrensburg exit. I am leaning against the Adirondacks this year, instead thinking about the Kelley Stand section of Green Mountain National Forest, but that’s still to be decided on. One problem with the GMNF is getting out there on the holiday weekend, and limited routes with traffic and the alike.

The average high for Memorial Day Weekend in Albany is 73 degrees with a low of 51. Sunset is at 8:23 pm on Memorial Day Weekend with dusk around 8:56 pm. Not too bad, but it can be kind of chilly up north, and the black flies can be bad. With such cool, damp weather, I don’t know if Moose River Plains will be open this year for Memorial Day Weekend, or if it is, there may be various road restrictions.

Today in 1960,  Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Thirty-one students are arrested, and the Free Speech Movement is born.

In 1963, the Earl Warren court announced the Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) decision that lead to the Brady rule, which is standard in courts today. It was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the prosecution had withheld from the criminal defendant certain evidence. The defendant challenged his conviction, arguing it had been contrary to the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Happy Birthday to Darius Rucker. I still associate his song Wagon Wheel with that awful bar with the same name in Niagara Falls which has now long closed down.