Good morning! Happy Hottest Time of the Year 😅! For the next two weeks the average high is thirty, then it will drop back to 82 and slowly and surely decline until six months from now in January when the average high is 30. Next Saturday is Ugly Truck Day 🚚. I bet that is a holiday they celebrate in the upper Midwest.

This morning is a nice one. Partly sunny and 69 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a west-northwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 60 degrees.

I didn’t get a very early start today, as I was pretty tired after a long and busy week at work😴 and with things going on every day after work except Monday.

After I go to Walmart, return beer cans and buy groceries 🍻 I’m going to gas up my truck ⛽and then head out to Schoharie County to swim 🏊 and hike at Mine Kill and spend an one-night at Burnt Rossman camping. ⛺

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 85 degrees at 3pm. Two degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 64 at 6pm. Southwest wind around 6 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 88 degrees. The record high of 96 was set in 1894.

The sun will set at 8:32 pm with dusk around 9:06 pm, which is 34 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 79 degrees. The dew point will be 65 degrees. There will be a west-southwest breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 2 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 22 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms between 1am and 3am, then a slight chance of showers after 3am. Partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 65 degrees at 4am. Three degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 65 at 7pm. Southwest wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2018, we had partly cloudy skies. It became somewhat humid as the night progressed. It got down to 72 degrees. The record low of 49 occurred back in 1940.

Last night, I spent quite a bit of time going over tax maps and records building another map for Save the Pine Bush. 🌐This is going to be a long ongoing project, I want to invest several nights this week down at the library working on it.📚

Last night I also spent some time working on fixing the EEPROM storage on my display in my bedroom, discovering that it wasn’t working right due to an implicit cast of a float into an integer in the code.📟 It was not an easy thing to debug.

Then I ended up laying back in bed, watching some videos on the various off-grid and farm channels I enjoy watching. 📹 I watched a very interesting video about a cow 🐮 being treated with milk fever, which dairy cattle in particular can get when they calve and they send too much calcium to their milk for their calves to sustain their own bodies.

On this day in 1977, the Great 1977 New York City Blackout begins, plunging New York into 24 hours of darkness, chaos, and crime. 🌆 It really was a dark time in the city. Much different than the 1965 black out. New York’s power problems didn’t extend to Upstate. The grid is so closely connected and a minor problem can cascade into a bigger problem.

As previously noted, next Saturday is Ugly Truck Day 🚚 when the sun will be setting at 8:27 pm with dusk at 9:00 pm. On that day in 2018, we had hot, sunny, patches of fog and temperatures between 88 and 57 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 83 degrees. We hit a record high of 97 back in 1991.