Good evening! Partly clear and 63 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a north breeze at 6 mph. The dew point is 57 degrees. A pretty nice evening, especially now that it’s started to clear out. I got the truck packed, I plan to head up to Moose River Plains I think tomorrow after work. I guess things could change though too. I might instead go to North Lake or leave early on the morning. I’m not driving in tomorrow, and I want the ice to last in the heat over the long weekend (I took Monday off), so I plan to return home after work, pack the cooler and leave by 6 PM tomorrow.

Tonight will be partly cloudy, with a low of 55 degrees at 6am. Six degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 57 at 10pm. Northwest wind 3 to 6 mph. In 2016, we had mostly cloudy skies, clearing in the early hours of the next day. It got down to 53 degrees. The record low of 31 occurred back in 1962.

Tonight’s Waxing Crescent Moon has set, but it was pretty earlier on. The First Quarter Moon is on Wednesday night with mostly cloudy skies. The Hunter Moon is in 2 weeks. The sun will rise at 6:42 am with the first light at 6:14 am, which is one minute and 5 seconds later than yesterday. Tonight will have 11 hours and 50 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be sunny, with a high of 78 degrees at 3pm. Eight degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 53 at 6am. North wind 6 to 9 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies with more clouds in the afternoon. The high last year was 82 degrees. The record high of 95 was set in 1895. Going to be a pretty nice day for sure.

Going to be a nice, hot summer…. I mean autumn weekend. Saturday, patchy fog between 7am and 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 83. North wind 3 to 6 mph. Maximum dew point of 62 at 6pm. Sunday, sunny, with a high near 88. Maximum dew point of 68 at 7pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 69 degrees.

So yeap, Moose River Plains for the long weekend, or so I’m making it by taking Monday off. Up north, it will be warm, but not quite as warm with the mercury only expected to reach into the low 80s, compared to the mid to upper 80s in the Albany area.

Yeah, it’s autumn and it’s going to be dark driving up there. Ain’t nothing can do about that, but I will buy coffee or maybe some more five hour energy shots, and get jacked up on caffine, drive slowly and keep my eyes peeled for deer. I don’t mind driving that much after dark once I’m up at Moose River Plains, because it the speed limit is so low and there will be no traffic to blind me with their headlights.

Bought some groceries and supplies, gased up the truck for the weekend. The truck is mostly packed. I forgot to get more windshield washer fluid, so that message will be annoying me all weekend if I don’t stop, and I may want to buy more five hour energy rather then getting coffee on the way up. It’s important to be wide awake on that road with all the deer, but also I figure it’s going to be such a warm evening, that I don’t mind if I’m jack awake into the wee hours of the morning by the campfire.

Fixed the CB radio relay with the 87A pins on now the floor LEDs I installed in the truck automatically turn off when I start the engine. This means they won’t be blinding me while driving down the road in the dark but will come on as soon as I turn off the truck when I arrive at camp. They can then be manually switched off when I don’t need them any more for the night.

Installed the polarizer filter on my dash cam, which should reduce reflections and make the colors richer in the fall and the sky more blue. I do need to adjust the direction of the polarizer, but by the time I got home the skies were cloudy and the sun had largely set, so I couldn’t really set the polarizer to the appropriate amount of polarization. It just rotates like a polarizer you might use on your camera. I’ve wanted one for a while since I got the camera, but Vivfo didn’t release a version until relatively recently.

In four weeks on October 19 the sun will be setting at 6:05 pm, which is 47 minutes and 33 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2016 on that day, we had rain, mostly sunny skies and temperatures between 72 and 48 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 59 and 38 degrees. The record high of 79 degrees was set back in 1963.

Looking ahead, Autumn Begins tomorrow. Not that you would know it with that big heat bubble over head that is making our autumn start out quite warm.