Tuesday, August 2, 2011

A paddler's view of Camel's Hump from the New York shore of Lake Champlain.

Morning Observation:

This morning in Huntington at 6:20am it’s currently 58 degrees under partly cloudy skies. Winds are calm. Relative humidity is 99%, dewpoint 58, barometric pressure 29.70″ and falling. 24hr high was 87, low 57. Current radar imagery shows a line of showers moving through the Montreal area.

Forecast:

Low pressure will move through the area today bringing us partly sunny with a chance of showers and a chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. It’ll be cooler with highs in the mid 70s and light and variable winds becoming northerly around 10 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain is 50%. Tonight should be partly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms until midnight. Lows will be in the lower 50s with north winds around 10 mph until midnight becoming light and variable. Chance of rain is 30%.

Wednesday should bring partly sunny skies as high pressure builds into the region. Highs will be in the upper 70s with northeast winds around 10 mph becoming northerly in the afternoon. Wednesday night’s looking partly cloudy with lows in the upper 50s and light and variable winds.

Thursday look for partly sunny skies with highs in the upper 70s and north winds around 10 mph.

Almanac:

Last year on this date we had a high of 82 and a low of 62.

Burlington norms for this date are highs of 81 and lows of 60.
Record high was 99 in 1975.
Record low was 44 in 1953.

Sky Notes:

Sunrise: 5:40 AM
Sunset: 8:15 PM
Length Of Visible Light: 15h 41m
Length of Day: 14h 35m
Tomorrow will be 2m 23s shorter.

The moon is a waxing crescent, 2d 15h old with 10% illumination.
Moonrise: 9:14 AM
Moonset: 9:29 PM