That’s the plan for today after the morning walk. Shower, finish cooking some brown rice and lentils up head out to the Nature Bus around 9:20, be to Thacher Park by 9:50. Then whatever until 6:20.

Good morning! Happy Saturday. A little cooler for the weekend! Mostly cloudy ⛅ and 68 degrees in Delmar for the morning walk 🚶 pm this Saturday morning. Calm wind. The dew point is 64 degrees. Not going to be a real nice weekend, the skies will clear Monday around 4 pm.

Lots of people out walking 🚶 and riding this morning but it’s already gotten hot and sticky. Hopefully it will be cooler when I get up to Thacher State Park 🏞 up on the hill. Otherwise I figure I can just relax on the hammock with a good book. 📖 No real plans for today besides just hanging out at Thacher Park. That and bake the bread I have rising today. Decided to do whole wheat bread with a kneaded recipe this time – still just the simple whole wheat, water, yeast and a bit of salt. Next week looks to be cool and may be an excellent week to use up a bunch of fresh and frozen vegetables in the freezer for soup. 🥣

Today will have a slight chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 11am. Mostly cloudy ⛅ , with a high of 80 degrees at 3pm. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around August 31st. Maximum dew point of 70 at 3pm. North wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 83 degrees. The record high of 94 was set in 1959.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:54 pm with sun having an altitude of 52.8° from the due south horizon (-18.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 4.6 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:41 pm with the sun in the west (272°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (278°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:18 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 56 seconds with dusk around 7:45 pm, which is one minute and 46 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:21 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 75 degrees. The dew point will be 69 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 12 hours and 50 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 50 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rain. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 65 degrees at 5am. 10 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 69 at 6pm. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. In 2022, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 56 degrees. The record low of 34 occurred back in 1978.

Looking ahead, there are 8 weeks until Daylight Savings Time Ends 🛥️ when the sun will be setting at 5:46 pm with dusk at 6:14 pm. On that day in 2022, we had sunny, warm and temperatures between 71 and 46 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 54 degrees. We hit a record high of 76 back in 1994.