Good morning! Happy Sunday. ⛪ Three weeks to Fathers Day 👨 . Partly cloudy and 71 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ There is a west-northwest breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 63 degrees. Not a really nice morning, kind of muggy to boot. 😰

Sat out back until nearly midnight 🌃, as it was kind of a warm evening and it was nice for sitting out back. I ended up watching some YouTube on my phone, working on some blog posts 📝 and just pondering the night away. Sometimes on real hot days I like to stay out back until late.

Today will have a chance of showers, with thunderstorms ⛈ also possible after 2pm. Partly sunny 🌦, with a high of 81 degrees at 1pm. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 20th. Maximum dew point of 63 at 7am. Northwest wind 9 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Hot and muggy like late June but the breeze and clouds it hopefully won’t be that oppressive. 😰 Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 85 degrees. The record high of 93 was set in 1964.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 68° from the due south horizon (-2.8° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:38 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (293°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (300°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:19 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 19 seconds with dusk around 8:52 pm, which is 57 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the southeast (146°) at an altitude of 33° from the horizon, 227,169 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:35 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 65 degrees. The dew point will be 51 degrees. There will be a north breeze at 11 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 53 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 43 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear ☁, with a low of 48 degrees at 5am. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 16th. North wind 5 to 11 mph. In 2020, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 49 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1963.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Fathers Day 👨 when the sun will be setting at 8:34 pm with dusk at 9:08 pm. Unofficial end of Black Fly Season. 🐜 On that day in 2020, we had a rather cold but partly sunny and temperatures between 66 and 46 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 79 degrees. We hit a record high of 94 back in 1892.