June 15, 2017 9 AM Update

Good morning! Happy Thursday. Next Thursday is Average High is 80. Mostly sunny and 61 degrees in Delmar. Calm wind. The dew point is 48 degrees.

Today will be mostly sunny, with a high of 78 degrees at 3pm. Typical for today. Maximum dew point of 53 at 12pm. Light and variable wind becoming south 5 to 10 mph in the morning. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies and a high of 83 degrees. The record high of 96 was set in 1988.

The sun will set at 8:35 pm with dusk around 9:10 pm, which is 24 seconds later than yesterday. At sunset, look for mostly cloudy conditions and 71 degrees. The dew point will be 53 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 10 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 18 minutes of daytime, an increase of 22 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low of 57 degrees at 5am. Typical for tonight. Maximum dew point of 53 at 6pm. South wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2016, it got down to 58 degrees with partly cloudy skies. The record low of 40 occurred back in 1961.

On this day in 1967, The People’s Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb. It would be one of the world’s few powers with access to the devestatingly powerful hydrogen bombs.

As previously noted, next Thursday is Average High is 80 when the sun will be setting at 8:37 pm with dusk at 9:12 pm. On that day in 2016, we had rain, partly cloudy skies and temperatures between 77 and 52 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 80 degrees. We hit a record high of 95 back in 1954.