Good morning! Happy Latest Sunset of the Year tonight 🌆! Yeap it’s summer. I’ve traded in the suit and tie for a t shirt and shorts.👚 Climate change means they don’t require long pants at work during the summer. Next Monday is July 🏊🏿. Mostly sunny and 66 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. The dew point is 55 degrees. Another nice summer day, probably cruel and unusual punishment to be required to work today but the air conditioning is nice on the bus.

It was a nice weekend but much too short probably because I spent so much time late into the nights looking at the starry skies. 🌃 It’s funny how when you stay up until 12:30 am each night and then spend half of the day swinging in the hammock drinking cold beer 🍻 that the day disappears. Paddling out on Lake Pleasant was quite nice yesterday, as it was incredibly calm and not a lot of power boat traffic and the water levels in the Sacandaga River were high enough for good paddling too. 🏊 Water in Lake Pleasant in the beach though was pretty cold.

I went out Sunday evening to my parents house for Sunday dinner, and then stayed out overnight. 🌮 They made up tacos which were pretty good, despite not getting their until relatively late because I didn’t leave the Adirondacks quite on time. I did my wash out there, 👕 and slept over in my truck cap.

To test out the electrical system, I left the accessory system including the CB radio/phone entirely on the solar yesterday, and even plugged in my laptop this morning for a while to charge. I dropped the battery voltage down to about 12.5 volts or about 20% discharge, after running the laptop which shows you how much energy it can store.🔋 Certainly had no problem with the load from the laptop. The solar had pulled the battery voltage up to 13.0 volts by the time I left for work, and I expect once the sun angle increases, it will be up to 14.5 volts and putting out over 60 watts of power. Not bad for a small system used for camp power. After seven years, I think I’ve worked out most of the kinks in the system.

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 83 degrees at 4pm. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around July 13th. Maximum dew point of 57 at 11am.  This will probably be the most pleasant day of the week — more head and humidity is expected to bake in for the second half of the week. 🏖 Light and variable wind. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. It was humid. The high last year was 76 degrees. The record high of 96 was set in 1943.

The sun will set at 8:37 pm with dusk around 9:12 pm, which is 6 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 Latest sunset of the year. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 76 degrees. The dew point will be 55 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 15 hours and 18 minutes of daytime, an increase of 13 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight I would like to take apart the camp stove, 🍳 and find out where the gas leak is in one of the burners, that melted a hole in surface of my my table. I am hoping it’s just a loose connection internally but if I have to replace a part, I’m sure I can get it online. I had noticed the gas leak one of the first time I went camping, but lately the leak has gotten to the point where there is a lot of flame and heat 🔥 is occurring under the stove, which isn’t good. Doesn’t look like it will be too hard to repair. The hole in the table — only the surface — also shouldn’t big of a deal to patch — I’m thinking something like Bondo for plastic work would work. I don’t care about the table looking nice, as it’s already scratched up, and if I wanted something fancy, I’d throw a table cloth on it, but I don’t want to have a hole in where it could collect water and mud.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly after 2am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 66 degrees at 4am. Seven degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 62 at 4am. Light southeast wind. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2018, we had light rain in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 55 degrees. The record low of 45 occurred back in 1982.

I have a rather busy week ahead. Tuesday I am heading over to John Wolcott’s house 🔍 then I have to vote.✅ I hadn’t decided for sure who I want to vote for in the primary — for the most part I don’t care that much — but I still think I should stop by the library after going to John’s house to vote. At some point I also need to get to the store, because over the weekend I only bought cookies and paper towels when heading up to camp, and I need to get some bondo or other material to patch the hole in the table. Thursday I am leading the Save the Pine Bush hike.

This weekend’s forecast might be decent, but look for unstable weather on Saturday. ⛈ Saturday, a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 80. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Maximum dew point of 64 at 7am. Sunday, a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 76. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 59 at 6am. Typical average high for the weekend is 81 degrees. Not sure if I’m going to head out of town, but if it turns out to be nice I may head out Mine Kill and spend an overnight camping. But first I want to fix the stove.

As previously noted, next Monday is July 🏊🏿 when the sun will be setting at 8:36 pm with dusk at 9:11 pm. On that day in 2018, we had hot, humid, mostly sunny and temperatures between 97 and 72 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 81 degrees. We hit a record high of 99 back in 1913.