Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Two weeks to Primary Day 🗳️. Cloudy and 60 degrees at Mason Lake. ☁ There is a west breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 47 degrees. The skies will clear around 6 pm.

I have started to take down camp. ⛺ I could technically stay here another day but I probably won’t especially if I have to go to Speculator to use the Wi-Fi.

Today will have isolated showers. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 75 degrees at 3pm. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 6th. Maximum dew point of 56 at 5pm. West wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 83 degrees. The record high of 100 was set in 1933.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:58 pm with sun having an altitude of 69.4° from the due south horizon (-0.4° 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 7:55 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (296°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (304°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:38 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 31 seconds with dusk around 9:13 pm, which is 36 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 10:00 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 69 degrees. The dew point will be 57 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 15 hours and 21 minutes of daytime, an increase of 48 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 53 degrees at 5am. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around June 5th. Maximum dew point of 57 at 7pm. Calm wind. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 53 degrees. The record low of 36 occurred back in 1975.

On this day in 1972, severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, 💥 creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160 million in damage.💦

Cool and showers the weekend. 😕 Saturday, a chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 61. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 46 at 6am. Sunday, a chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 67. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 50 at 7pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 77 degrees.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Primary Day 🗳️ when the sun will be setting at 8:42 pm with dusk at 9:18 pm. On that day in 2019, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 84 and 55 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 80 degrees. We hit a record high of 96 back in 1888.