A cup of black coffee and a few red seedless grapes and I’m off for my morning walk. Can’t complain I got a good night’s sleep with the lights out before nine. Listening to Paul Simon 1972 album and moving forward.

Good morning! Ease off that clutch pull the lever back and we’re in the second, that is Tuesday. Cloudy and damp, muggy around 70 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ There is a south breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 68 degrees. The muggy weather ends tomorrow around 3 am. 😓

Last night that salmon 🐟, spinach, onions were good. Adding that lemon juice and pepper makes such a difference. I was tired 😴 but moved through Monday. ChatGPT is really good at work at summarizing articles when you are fried and don’t want to think 🤔. It was bed 🛏 after my bicycle 🚲 ride. A mountain bike on the asphalt of Delmar is kind of lame but get me some gravel or a logging haul road it’s pretty awesome. The banana oatmeal pancakes 🥞 of yesterday was good, I’m thinking spinach scrambled eggs 🍳 for that extra punch today. I was good yesterday and I haven’t opened all they Greek yogurt that I bought on Sunday.

Today will have a slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Partly sunny 🌦, with a high of 78 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 5th. Maximum dew point of 70 at 11am. South wind 6 to 8 mph becoming west in the afternoon. 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 sticky. The high last year was 95 degrees. The record high of 95 was set in 1983.

I was hoping to ride to work today 🚲 but I’m afraid that it will rain again this evening. I’m thinking Wednesday will be better. Yesterday I walked 4.5 miles and rode 7.5 miles mostly down to the library to return my remaining library books as truth told I doubt I’ll get a chance to read them. 📖 Started to rain around 7:40 pm and I headed home but that was to be expected. Rode up to Font Grove which was about as far as I expected to get. Did the stairs up and down at work again.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:02 pm with sun having an altitude of 63.6° from the due south horizon (-7.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:29 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (287°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (293°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:09 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 9 seconds with dusk around 8:38 pm, which is one minute and 19 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:18 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 69 degrees. The dew point will be 63 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 15 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 22 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 61 degrees at 5am. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around August 13th. Maximum dew point of 65 at 6pm. West wind 8 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2022, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It was very sticky. It got down to 67 degrees. The record low of 46 occurred back in 1989.

Hot and humid this weekend with a chance of showers especially Saturday night.🌦️Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 83. Maximum dew point of 65 at 5pm. Sunday, a chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 83. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Maximum dew point of 69 at 11am. Typical average high for the weekend is 83 degrees.

I am still undecided about the weekend. ⛈ I’m watching a potential clipper front that could make Saturday evening wet and I just got back from vacation. I’d like to visit John Wolcott potentially and maybe try riding in the Albany Pine Bush and the Erie Canal Trail. 🌲That said summer is rapidly fading and I can’t take any days off during the week of August 20th as that’s when the other director is off. ⛺ I could do the Potholers 🏊‍♂️ after my dentist appointment on Friday 🦷 but gas prices are up ⛽ and that’s a long trip for two nights.

There are 2 months until Average High is 65 🍂 when the sun will be setting at 6:26 pm with dusk at 6:53 pm. What can I say, autumn is coming. 🍁 Might want to check if the headlights are still working on your car as it will mean more driving after dark kind of like I did more than I wanted on vacation due to maximizing the days. 🏖️ Those were the days. Mine do. But I still don’t love driving after dark with the deer 🦌, other car headlights and potholes.