Good afternoon! Did you notice it was a Friday already? I didn’t because I spent the first half of the week working from the Adirondacks. But running low on food and supplies I decided I had to go home 🏡. Hit and humid and 85 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ There is a south breeze at 13 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 70 degrees. The heat index is 90. Definitely kind of a sultry afternoon, I had the fan blowing on my while I was working from home this morning. The skies will clear tomorrow around 9 am.

Hot and muggy enough this morning that I decided to work from my desk in the bedroom 💻 because I figured it would be super hot working down at the library. I got the windshield reflector I got ordered last week in part to make it cooler working in the truck during the pandemic but also for camping as I often store the coolers up front and lately I park in the sun intentionally for the solar charging ☀ of the batteries. 🔋

It’s been a busy to start out work. 📝 Memos needed to be written emails 📧 sent, phone calls fielded and triaged. Before work I also worked on some research for Save the Pine Bush. 🌲I am getting really good at working with tax maps, records and deeds. I can geo reference tax maps quickly and vectorize them fairly quickly.

This afternoon will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny ☀, with a high of 87 degrees at 2pm. 14 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 70 at 1pm. South wind around 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 64 degrees. The record high of 93 was set in 1931.

This afternoon I’ll head to the laundromat and then to the grocery store. 👚 I have a lot of dirty clothes from camping although now that I’m wearing shorts, not quite as much as I might otherwise have. 🍏 I’m really digging in the pantry so I probably should go shopping. I also want to get to the car wash. 🚿

With the choppy weather possible today I’m glad I’m not camping. ⛺ I always worry a bit about a storm washing out a road or a tree coming down and blocking my route home. ⚡ I’m not sure anything that severe will hit this afternoon but you never know with these springtime thunderstorms.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:54 pm with sun having an altitude of 69.1° from the due south horizon (-1.7° 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 7:43 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (294°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (301°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:25 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 22 seconds with dusk around 8:58 pm, which is 50 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the southwest (225°) at an altitude of 53° from the horizon, 228,203 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:42 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 77 degrees. The dew point will be 67 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 11 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 3 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 24 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have showers and thunderstorms likely. Some storms could be severe, with damaging winds. ⚡ Mostly cloudy 🌩, with a low of 65 degrees at 6am. 13 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 68 at 6pm. South wind 7 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 59 degrees. The record low of 33 occurred back in 1967.

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers, mainly before 7am. Partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 77 degrees at 4pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 10th. Maximum dew point of 60 at 6am. West wind 9 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 72 degrees. The record high of 92 was set in 1987.

I might stay home tomorrow or maybe go hiking. 🚶 I am undecided on that point. Tomorrow will certainly be the warmest day of the weekend. I’m glad I went out of town last weekend as this weekend will be a bit mixed and downright cool come Sunday.

Looking ahead to Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 66. ☀ Northwest wind 9 to 14 mph. Maximum dew point of 42 at 6am. A much needed and refreshing change that will feel more like autumn. Typical average high for the weekend is 73 degrees.

While I wish I had done it before the market ticketed up 📈 I took my Coronavirus stimulus payment and put about two thirds in a handful of index 📇 funds and the rest in my savings account. I was hoping to do it last week but I wanted to make sure the transfer 💰would clear as it’s rare to have much in my checking account.

As previously noted, next Friday is 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ with dusk at 9:04 pm. On that day in 2019, we had rain and temperatures between 83 and 55 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 75 degrees. We hit a record high of 97 back in 1925.