August 15, 2016 Evening

Good evening! 12 short weeks from now it will be Election Evening. Cloudy  and 80 degrees in Albany, NY.  Gray kind of like November It will be hunting season then. But with the Big Buddy heater and the lantern the long evenings will still be fun. There is a west-northwest breeze at 7 mph. Not so humid with a dew point is 64 degrees. The skies will clear Wednesday around 3 pm.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy, with a relatively mild low of 66 degrees at 5am. Six degrees above normal. Northwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming calm in the evening. Maximum dew point of 65 at 8pm. The record low of 41 occurred back in 1972. The sun will set at 7:55 pm with dusk around 8:25 pm, which is 1 minutes and 29 seconds earlier than yesterday. Waxing Gibbous Moon tonight with 90% illuminated. The moon will set around 5:48 am. The Full “Strugeon” Moon is on Thursday.

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms before noon, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between noon and 2pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 2pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Cloudy, with a high of 83 degrees at 3pm. Two degrees above normal. Light east wind becoming south 5 to 10 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. Maximum dew point of 71 at 4pm. The record high of 97 was set in 1936.

But when we get to that point, the weather will dramatically improve for the second half of the week. It should be nice up on Piseco-Powley Road camping this weekend. 

The weekend looks real nice but watch out for thunderstorms Sunday afternoon. But it’s summer. Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 85. Maximum dew point of 66 at 11am. Sunday, a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 84. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Maximum dew point of 67 at 1pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 80 degrees.

In four weeks on September 12 the sun will be setting at 7:08 pm, which is 46 minutes earlier then today. The average high is 74 degrees, and the record for that date is 94 degrees was set back in 1947. It’s amazing to mid September is just four weeks away.