Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Back hike again, getting ready to work in the office tomorrow 🏢 after one more day of work from home. Two weeks to 9 PM Dusk 🌆 . Partly cloudy and 53 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ Calm wind. The dew point is 47 degrees.

Back home from the Adirondacks as of last night. 🏡 I probably could have stayed another day but Wednesday is a session day and I have to dress up and didn’t want to come home late and then have to get up early and get all dressed for work the next day. 👨🏻‍🏫 Tomorrow morning at this time I’ll be getting ready to go and get on the bus. 🚌 Need to figure out which bus makes the most sense to catch downtown – they still have the pandemic schedule. 😷 Still have to wear a mask on the bus 🚍 and elevators at work but at the desk it’s not necessary especially now that most folks are vaccinated.

Most of yesterday was working down in Spectulator, 💻 first from the library 📚 and then down by the lake in the afternoon. It wasn’t a bad day although around 4:45 pm it started to rain and I had to hurry back to my truck. ☔ At Five I started home but stopped at Auger Falls, hiked down Old Route 8A, a snowmobile trail that follows the pre-1968 alignment of NY 8-30 past Auger Falls and then down to the falls. The old road and bridges have been completely removed but the original road cut is quite visible. Seems wider than Old Route 8B but I don’t think it is. Some pretty serious iron rust below the modern alignment – I don’t think it’s acid mine discharge but it sure was bloody red. Acid mine discharge as seen in Pennsylvania is very orange colored.

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 78 degrees at 3pm. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 9th. Maximum dew point of 50 at 9am. Light and variable wind becoming northwest 6 to 11 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 21 mph. With the breeze, won’t feel so warm. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 69 degrees. The record high of 94 was set in 2017. 2.2 inches of snow fell back in 2002.❄

Busy day ahead. I want to do my morning walk i🚶🏻 and vote in the school election. 🚸 Then I need to get down to work and edit that paper I have on my desk. 📄 Then at lunch time I want to wash my truck 🚿 and be home by 1 pm for a work meeting. I told my folks I’d be out later for dinner after work as next weekend I may be out of town. ⚡ That said, maybe not the forecast is trending downhill. 😔

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 67° from the due south horizon (-3.8° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:34 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (291°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (298°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:14 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 16 seconds with dusk around 8:46 pm, which is one minute and one second later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the west-southwest (237°) at an altitude of 56° from the horizon, 238,511 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:28 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 71 degrees. The dew point will be 46 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 44 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 57 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 54 degrees at 5am. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around June 2nd. Maximum dew point of 47 at 9pm. West wind 5 to 7 mph becoming calm after midnight. In 2020, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 52 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1981.

Sunny and mild with a chance of showers this weekend before Memorial Day Weekend. 🌞Saturday, a chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 77. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Maximum dew point of 58 at 11am. Sunday, a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 79. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 58 at 10am. Typical average high for the weekend is 73 degrees.

While I have my therapy session on Friday again 👨🏻‍⚕️I am not sure if after that I will head out of town. But seems like the forecast is trending wetter ⛈️ and I just got back from the Adirondacks. If I were to go anywhere this weekend I’d be would either be Madison or Schoharie County in Central NY. Schoharie might be good in a couple of weeks once the strawberries 🍓 are out or come the first weekend of summer the Mine Kill Pool. 🏊🏻‍♂️ No muzzles this year and the pool has been rebuilt with a new pump.

I don’t anticipate doing much more time up in Spectulator, ⛺ mainly because I’ve been there a lot this past year and as remote work 💻 inevitably winds down there will be less opportunities to work up at Lake Pleasant or nearby areas with cell service. 📶 With Piseco Powley Road open again the Potholers will probably be my go to in the summer months. 🏊🏻‍♂️

It’s possible the next time I head out of town is Memorial Day Weekend 🗻 but I’m really loathed to go to the Adirondacks that weekend with the crowds and black flies. Could I remote work that Friday somewhere I have cell service? Yes. Will I don’t know. Forest Road 71 in the Green Mountains is a possibility. Or maybe I’ll stay home that weekend. Going to probably need to work a few hours that weekend so I’ll need cell service. Maybe that means back to Spectulator but I’m loathed to do that again.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until 9 PM Dusk 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 8:26 pm. On that day in 2020, we had partly cloudy skies with rain showers and temperatures between 68 and 41 degrees. Kind of a cool and wet day. Typically, the high temperature is 76 degrees. We hit a record high of 94 back in 1918.