Good morning! Yeah, it’s Friday! Partly sunny with fog and 65 degrees at the Green Mountain National Forest. 🌁 Calm wind. The dew point is 62 degrees. A rather pleasant morning with a breeze on a soon to be hot old July day. Clouds might keep it cooler though.

Today will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Mostly sunny. ☀ But later on becoming cloudy 🌧, with a high of 78 degrees at 1pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 16th. Maximum dew point of 67 at 4pm. Already seeing the clouds start to push in a bit Light southeast wind increasing to 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It became humid as the day progressed. The high last year was 89 degrees. The record high of 100 was set in 1936.

I have a few projects to work on today 📝 but I expect a fairly quiet day working from the hammock to replying to emails 📧 and taking calls 📞 from my hammock. The work laptop is charging using the solar power now, I’m sure there will be some kind of project come the afternoon to do. 💼 Probably at four o’clock. I do want to hit the swimming hole 🏊 later.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:58 pm with sun having an altitude of 69.3° from the due south horizon (-1.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:50 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (295°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (302°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:32 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 25 seconds with dusk around 9:05 pm, which is 29 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:51 pm. At sunset, look out for rain 🌧 and thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 67 degrees. The dew point will be 67 degrees. There will be a east-southeast breeze at 15 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 8 minutes of daytime, a decrease of one minute and 14 seconds over yesterday.

I think my plan for today is to work in the Green Mountains 🗻 and maybe hit the swimming hole a few times and then head home after work, assuming it’s not raining too hard for unsafe driving 🚘. It’s been a fun week but I don’t want to camp in the pouring rain 💦 which it looks like we are right on to get a direct hit from Tropical Storm Fay here in the Green Mountains. Plus I’m low on ice but I’ve eaten most of the pershibles.

Tonight will have showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. 🌧 Low of 65 degrees at 5am. Four degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 67 at 7pm. 🏖️ East wind 15 to 17 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between three quarters and one inch possible. Yeah purty wet. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It became very sticky as the night progressed. It got down to 71 degrees. The record low of 48 occurred back in 1986.

I keep finding litter 🚯 around this campsite which I keep picking up. Some people are pigs. 🐽 I know that when I camp, anything that doesn’t completely burnt gets packed out for recycling. ♻ I don’t put aluminum or glass in the fire pit and while I may burn out cans to clean them of food residue, I always clean out the fire pit and remove the cans and any unburnt plastic or similar residue. I bury my poop 💩 and I try to leave wood at the fireplace and tidy up the site before I leave. Nobody wants to see or smell your pile of poop or deal with your garbage. 🚮

On this day in 1890, Wyoming is admitted to the United States as the 44th US State. Many liberals regard that as a mistake, although it has some beautiful country out in Yellowstone and lots of grass to feed cows and oil and coal. 🗻 And in 1962, Telstar, the world’s first communication satellite is launched. 📡

Tomorrow will have showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. 🌧 High of 78 degrees at 2pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 16th. Maximum dew point of 70 at 2pm. 🏖️ Southwest wind around 6 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It became humid as the day progressed. The high last year was 86 degrees. The record high of 98 was set in 1936.

Looking ahead to Sunday, a chance of showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 11am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 77. Southwest wind 6 to 8 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Maximum dew point of 67 at 8am. Typical average high for the weekend is 82 degrees.