Good morning! Monday’s come back around again. Next Monday is Memorial Day 🇺🇸. Rain showers and clouds and 74 degrees waiting for the bus at the Valero. ☔ There is a south-southwest breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 63 degrees. I think it’s the first time we’ve had dew points in the sixties this year. Definitely damp in my apartment, the humidity sensor says it’s closer to a dew point of 65 inside with a humidity of 80%. I’m glad I wired that up in my VMS display. The skies will clear around noontime.

So it’s the work week before the holiday weekend, heading downtown. 🚍 I caught the later bus downtown this morning as I had trouble getting going on this rainy morning in my truck cap but so be it. It wasn’t a bad night sleeping — some heavy rain during the night and some flashes of lighting — but in general a nice night. My parents did make a nice breakfast. 🍳 It was a dark and rainy morning then when I got home and the floors were wet from the humidity but at least my VMS display is working well since I added that transistor to refresh the display and clear out any invalid data. The trick with the transistor was to put the display into sleep mode, cut power, and then wake it up from sleep mode once power was restored — sticking in a 10 millisecond delay — to get a full refresh from any errors.

Today will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds. Partly sunny ☀, with a high of 83 degrees at 2pm. 12 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around July 13th. Too bad I have to work and with everything being so wet this morning it feels like a swamp. Maximum dew point of 64 at 10am. Hopefully things will dry up later today. Southwest wind 9 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 75 degrees. The record high of 91 was set in 1962.

The sun will set at 8:16 pm with dusk around 8:49 pm, which is one minute later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly clear skies – wait for it – with a chance of thunderstorms 🌧 and temperatures around 67 degrees. In case you mud was getting dehydrated says the internet meme. The good news is that cool dry air will be pushing into so things will hopefully be nice. The dew point will be 53 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 13 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 48 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 52 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of showers before 10pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 50 degrees at 5am. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 24th. Northwest wind 11 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 47 degrees. The record low of 32 occurred back in 1949.

I’m going to change the code on my VMS display in my bedroom to take the average of the temperature from the clock chip and the DHT 11 sensor. It seems like the clock chip rides a few degrees too high and the humidity DHT 11 runs too low compared to the mercury thermometer on my wall. I think it’s heat from the circuits 💫 that’s causing the too high readings. I also have an external temperature probe that I want to wire up outside, to get an outside temperature reading, and also add code to reset the day’s recorded high and low temperature, at midnight each night.

I have many options for the long weekend ⛺ and I’ve been leaning against more going up to the East Branch because I was just up there. I might back country tent 🎪 camp locally if I don’t want to deal with so many black flies 🐜 or maybe go back up to Vermont where I’ve been spending a lot of holiday weekends lately. The problem with VEE-mont is I don’t have a fishing license for there but the Grout Pond swimming beach is nice. Not sure if it’s going to be that warm out this weekend but I would like to camp somewhere I have cellphone 📱 reception, lots of sun for solar and maybe some swimming 🏊 and fishing 🎣 opportunities.

As previously noted, next Monday is Memorial Day 🇺🇸 when the sun will be setting at 8:22 pm with dusk at 8:56 pm. On that day in 2018, we had rain showers, partly sunny and temperatures between 68 and 54 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 73 degrees. We hit a record high of 94 back in 1914.