Good morning! Monday’s come back around again, and it’s a beautiful one. Sunny and 66 degrees in Bethlehem, NY. Calm wind. The dew point is 58 degrees. There are 145 days remaining in the year.
Today will be sunny, with a high of 84 degrees at 3pm. Two degrees above normal. Light northwest wind increasing to 6 to 11 mph in the afternoon. Maximum dew point of 58 at 8am. The record high of 95 was set in 1983. The sun will set at 8:05 pm with dusk around 8:36 pm, which is 1 minutes and 21 seconds earlier than yesterday. Today will have 14 hours and 9 minutes of daylight, a decrease of 2 minutes and 25 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will be clear, with a low of 57 degrees at 5am. Four degrees below normal. Low humidity conditions continue. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. Maximum dew point of 56 at 8pm. The record low of 46 occurred back in 1989.
Cloudy periods:
Wednesday 4 am to 10 pm – rain and thunderstorms expected
Rain expected:
Wednesday 2 to 8 am – slight chance of rain and thunderstorms
Wednesday 8 am to 8 pm – chance of rain and thunderstorms – 0.29 inches expected
Wednesday 8 pm to Thu. 8 am – slight chance of rain and thunderstorms
Thursday 8 am to 8 pm – chance of rain and thunderstorms – 0.22 inches expected
Thursday 8 pm to Fri. 8 am – slight chance of rain and thunderstorms
There are 1 week until National Relaxation Day when the sun will be setting at 7:55 pm with dusk at 8:25 pm. Enjoy a nice early sunset that night.The average high temperature is 81 degrees, with a record high of 96 in 1959.
Today back in 1879, Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph. Teachers have been getting high on mineograph fluid ever since, although at this point those teachers have all retired and probably have cancer from breathing in a those fumes.
Back in 1969, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the iconic photo that becomes the cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road. It was the beginning of the end for the Beatles.
Didn’t sleep all that well in Big Red last night. The sun got in my eyes pretty early in the morning, and I ended up staying up late fixing some blog code. So I’m tired going into a Monday. But it was a good weekend.
This morning I will call the DEC about that downed tree blocking Betty Brook Road. There is no easy place to turn around there, and it’s a big detour over CCC Road and would require them just to send a guy from the Operations division with a chainsaw to cut it.
Big Red has occasionally been giving me trouble starting the first or second time I turn the key since about July. Sometimes nothing happens when you turn the key sometimes it stalls within five seconds of turning the key. Either a sensor or ignition switch is acting up. The problem is so random and so rare, that there is nothing to fix. Always starts on the second time. Only the third time this has occurred. Just something to keep my worrying mind thinking about it.
After think an deciding again a dashboard camera, I’m now again thinking about a drone. I just want new ways to take pictures. Maybe I’ll hold off until the Christmas season when prices will continue to drop and there are some good sales. I have a feeling I could take some spectacular aerial photographs of forests and ponds in the wilderness.