Good morning! Yeah, it’s Friday! Partly sunny and 62 degrees at Mason Lake. ☀ Calm wind. The dew point is 61 degrees. A tad bit of mugginess this morning. Yeah, but I’m back in the Adirondacks for a while. Different campsite then last time though.

I spotted more poison ivy mixed in with other plants to avoid while camping. 🌿 Trying to do my best to stay out of it and wash my hands regularly. Today I’m going swimming in Speculator at lunch time and after work 🏊 so hopefully that will wash off any uroshol I couldn’t get off last night.

It looks like I will have to run down to Spectulator this morning to install updates on my work laptop, 💻 as it’s not letting me connect to the internet until it’s updated. But that’s to be expected. I don’t mind, the swimming is better down there and the wireless connection where I’m camping is somewhat marginal. 🏊 Plus then I can work on my blog and visit other websites that are non work related in the down time.

Today will have isolated showers and thunderstorms after noon. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. ⚡ Otherwise, mostly sunny 🌧, with a high of 82 degrees at 4pm. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around July 2nd. Maximum dew point of 61 at 7am. South wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. It was humid. The high last year was 79 degrees. The record high of 94 was set in 1995.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:00 pm with sun having an altitude of 70° from the due south horizon. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:59 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (297°). 📸 The sunset is in the borthwest (304°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:43 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 32 seconds with dusk around 9:17 pm, which is 17 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 10:05 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 73 degrees. The dew point will be 60 degrees. There will be a southwest breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 25 minutes of daytime, an increase of 7 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have isolated showers and thunderstorms before 9pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, partly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 58 degrees at 4am. Typical for tonight. Maximum dew point of 60 at 8pm. West wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It was sticky. It got down to 66 degrees. The record low of 43 occurred back in 1918.

Tomorrow will be scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, partly sunny 🌧, with a high of 81 degrees at 2pm. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 26th. Maximum dew point of 62 at 8am. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. It was humid. The high last year was 79 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1953.

Looking ahead to Sunday, scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2pm. ⚡ Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 80. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 8 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Maximum dew point of 62 at 8am. Typical average high for the weekend is 79 degrees.