Good evening! Cloudy with occasional flashes of lighting on this hot and humid evening still around 81 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ ⚡ There is a south-southwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 68 degrees. The muggy weather ends tomorrow around 7 pm. 😓 Only a short reprieve though as it will be back for the start of my vacation.

It’s a fairly nice evening 🌃 out back by the fan although for a while there was a thunderstorm rolling in and it had some big rain drops as I got off the bus 🚍 and ran home. Didn’t last for long although it’s definitely warm and sticky in my bedroom. When I retire for the night I’ll probably bring out the big box fan but I’ll probably leave it on low to save electricity and because noisy on high.

Tonight will have a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy ⚡, with a low of 71 degrees at 4am. Nine degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 68 at 9pm. South wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It was very sticky. It got down to 69 degrees. The record low of 45 occurred back in 1974.

Tonight will have a Waning Gibbous Moon 🌖 with 98% illuminated. The moon will set at 6:02 am. The Last Quarter Moon is next Tuesday with heavy rain possible. The Strugeon Moon 🌝 is on Wednesday, August 14th. The sun will rise at 5:32 am with the first light at 4:59 am, which is 51 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 9 hours and 2 minutes of darkness, an increase of one minute and 33 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 11am. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Cloudy 🌧, with a high of 82 degrees at 2pm. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around July 27th. Maximum dew point of 72 at 4pm. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became thunderstorm by afternoon. It was humid. The high last year was 80 degrees. The record high of 99 was set in 1900.

I’ve decided on Friday night to drive out to Madison County. 🚘 I’m going to take the bus home and pack the coolers when I get home so they won’t get to hot the first day. Going to be tough on ice, especially the first half of the week. ☀ I thought for a while about leaving Saturday morning around eight and doing Glimmerglass Lake Beach but I think I want to be in the Finger Lakes by Saturday as I’m only planning on spending half my week there with the balance in the Southern Tier and Pennsylvania. Saturday I will swim in Cayuga Lake and then overnight in the National Forest, Sunday will be a a beach day at those wonderful Adirondack Chairs at the Watkins Glen pool. I expect to get a good tan out of it.

I bet with the long hot nights, fan and lights burning late into the night with many sunny days I’ll burn a lot of electricity on my truck but with the two accessory batteries I expect I’ll be able to handle the load entirely with the solar. 💡Plus charging my laptop as I now have the OrthoPhotos around Crossgates Mall downloaded and print outs of the tax maps so I can continue to work on the Save the Pine Bush 🌲stuff. Maybe produce and consume 2 to 3 kWh over the week?

Tomorrow evening more Pine Bush stuff at the library and maybe start to think about packing. 💼 Thursday it’s off to the laundromat plus I want to pick up a table cloth at the dollar store and a few things at Hannaford. I’ll buy whatever else I need while I’m out there at Walmart or other grocery stores. The Watkins Glen Walmart has a lot of camping stuff. 🍇

In four weeks on August 13 the sun will be setting at 7:59 pm,🌄 which is 30 minutes and 51 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had rain showers, humid, partly cloudy and temperatures between 79 and 68 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 81 and 61 degrees. The record high of 98 degrees was set back in 1947.

Looking ahead, World Mosquito Day 🐞 is in 5 weeks, Constitution Day 📜 is in 9 weeks, October 🛥 is in 11 weeks and Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 68 weeks.