August 26, 2020 Morning
Good morning! Happy National Dog Day 🐩! Next Wednesday is the Corn Moon 🌕. Sunny and 54 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 There is a northwest breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 49 degrees.
Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 72 degrees at 3pm. Seven degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 16th. Maximum dew point of 49 at 7am. Northwest wind 7 to 13 mph. A year ago, we had sunny skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 78 degrees. The record high of 98 was set in 1948.
Going to be a super nice day ☺ that feels more like mid September then late autumn. That said September and autumn aren’t far away and it’s expected to that come September we will have many more nice days like today. 🍂
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:58 pm with sun having an altitude of 57.6° from the due south horizon (-13.2° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:03 pm with the sun in the west (278°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (285°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:41 pm after setting for 3 minutes with dusk around 8:08 pm, which is one minute and 39 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the south (186°) at an altitude of 25° from the horizon, 231,074 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:46 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 67 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 9 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 24 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 43 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly after 2am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 54 degrees at 5am. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 9th. Maximum dew point of 50 at 5am. Northwest wind 5 to 8 mph becoming calm after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 53 degrees. The record low of 41 occurred back in 1969.
Today in 1920, the 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote in federal elections.☑️
Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, showers likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 8am. High near 79. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Maximum dew point of 70 at 2pm. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 75. Maximum dew point of 61 at 6am. Typical average high for the weekend is 78 degrees.
So no improvement on the weekend forecast ☔ but we will have another run at summer like weather on Saturday buy stormy and unsettled. I’m planning to stay in town but Sunday might be good for hiking 🚶🏻 and fishing 🎣.
Looking ahead, there are 9 weeks until Average High is 55 🍂 when the sun will be setting at 5:53 pm with dusk at 6:22 pm. On that day in 2019, we had mostly cloudy and temperatures between 60 and 45 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 55 degrees. We hit a record high of 78 back in 1971.
