Good morning! Happy Sunday. Next Sunday is the Last Sunset Before 7:30 PM 🌆. Overcast and 55 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. The dew point is 55 degrees. The skies will clear around 9 am. 🕗

Five Rivers was nice yesterday 🐸 although with less wildlife out and about compared to the spring. There was a lot of people out there too although not so much where I was hiking.

Today will have patchy fog 🌁 and clouds before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 75 degrees at 3pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 8th. Maximum dew point of 56 at 8am. Light and variable wind becoming northeast 5 to 7 mph in the morning. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 81 degrees. The record high of 99 was set in 1947.

This morning I’m working on various small improvements to the blog 💻 and then I’ll probably go out hiking before heading out to the folks for the night. 🌃 I’m dog sitting 🐶 while they’re on vacation. Definitely a nice day.

The sun will set at 7:41 pm with dusk around 8:10 pm, which is one minute and 37 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 Those days of the 8:37 pm sunset are long gone. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 69 degrees. The dew point will be 52 degrees. There will be a east breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 24 minutes of day, an decrease of 2 minutes and 43 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 50 degrees at 5am. Nine degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 19th. East wind 3 to 5 mph. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It became humid as the night progressed. It got down to 63 degrees. The record low of 40 occurred back in 1942.

On this day in 1950, President Harry Truman orders the U.S. Army to seize control of the nation’s railroads to avert a strike. 💂👎So much for the boy from Missouri being a socialist, even if he was a really bad driver. 🚙

As previously noted, next Sunday is Sunset Before 7:30 PM 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 7:29 pm with dusk at 7:58 pm. On that day in 2018, we had mostly cloudy and temperatures between 79 and 66 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 77 degrees. We hit a record high of 96 back in 1953.