Good morning! What day is it? A Summer Day, the kind they don’t have on Fords because the drive line is lower, of course. Two weeks to Average High is 70 🐮. Seems like a joke today with temperatures expected to reach the mid 80s. 🌷Sunny and 66 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 There is a southwest breeze at 7 mph. 🍃.

They already have the air conditioning running on the bus and it feels nice. 😎I’m sure by later on in the day I’m going to want to close the window shades in my office because with those south facing windows it will get hot. 🔳But gawd, I love the view of the mountains. 🗻

Today will be sunny 🌞 , with a high of 86 degrees at 3pm. Going to be a really nice day, first really summer like day of the year. 😎 22 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 47 at 8am. Southwest wind 7 to 14 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 64 degrees. The record high of 88 was set in 2001. There was a dusting of snow in 1986.❄

The sun will set at 7:57 pm with dusk around 8:28 pm, which is one minute and 7 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly clear skies and 82 degrees. I wonder how warm it will be in my apartment when I get home. There will be a west-southwest breeze at 13 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 9 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 27 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy ☁, with a low of 65 degrees at 5am. 22 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 58 at 6am. Southwest wind 7 to 13 mph. In 2017, we had mostly cloudy skies. It got down to 43 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1966.

A bit chilly this morning but expected to warm up quickly. 😎 Going to reach towards record breaking warmth for the first time this year, at least the summer season. At any rate the 80 odd degrees temperatures will feel nice before the cool and rainy weather come Thursday and Friday. Then nice for the weekend but cooler. 🎢 A definite spring roller coaster.

Traffic is stopped going downtown due to continued road construction. 🚌🚓🚕🚗🚙🚙🚗 They’re painting really fancy looking crosswalk markings on the road to reduce the number of pedestrians killed by drivers or something like that. The bus was on time, 🚏but now it’s running a few minutes behind schedule due to the road work. 🚧 Doesn’t matter, I grabbed an earlier bus because I knew it would be delayed with the road work.

As I previously mentioned, I got my big VMS display board thingy back working again last night in my bedroom. 📺All I had to do was resolder and replace a few of the wires I pulled off. 📍The auto on and off override switch is working well so if I go to bed before eleven I can turn it off or while I’m at work. But it also turns off automatically at 11 pm each night and runs at 1/8th normal brightness after eight o’clock each night. I just like being awoken to Good Morning each day. Kind of pleasant. 🌻

There’s an electrolytic capacitor 🔬that keeps humming on it anytime its not at full brightness which is a bit annoying but it’s pretty faint unless you’re trying to hear it. Not really audible except when you are sitting next to it with the windows closed. Not sure why the capacitor hums🔉 like that, maybe due to the rapid changes in voltage from the pulse width modulation causing vibrations. The capacitor is doing it job at smoothing through voltage but the pulse width modulation of the display must be in the audible range. Ain’t a thing I could do about it except maybe put it inside box to hide the noise.

Went out for my evening walk which was quite pleasant. 🚶There was a football game that had just ended at the high school and the air had the light smell of barnyard 🐄while walking past the farm down the street. I like living almost in the country but still able to public transport to work. Pretty moon too. 🌔

Enjoyed sleeping with the windows open. My big display signs said it was 63 when I went to sleep and 52 when I arose.📐 Now it’s 60 when I left for work. Should be interesting to read the number when I get home. Sun keeps getting up earlier and earlier, 💤I should try to get to bed earlier because I’ve been waking up earlier. 🌄Birds start chirping at four am.🐥

Decided against going shopping. 🍗By the time I got home it was fairly late so I decided instead to go out for a walk, work on some code and other projects like starting〰💻 to geocode the deer harvest data to post later on and making up maps.

Tonight I hope to get out of work at a reasonable hour so I can get down to the park 🌳with a book and read until well after dark.📚 I always enjoy nice summer evenings at the park. Few things are nicer than a long summer night with a book. When I get home I may sit out back with a cold drink. 🍺

So going camping this weekend in the Adirondacks to kick off the endless summer season. ⛺ Nice weekend after we get through the showers and thunderstorms on Friday. I look forward to a nice breakfast up at camp. Not to mention a good fire. 🔥

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until the Average High is 70 🐮 when the sun will be setting at 8:12 pm with dusk at 8:44 pm. On that day in 2017, we had mostly cloudy skies and temperatures between 77 and 44 degrees. We hit a record high of 89 back in 1991.