Good evening! Rain showers and 73 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a south breeze at 14 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 60 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 5 pm.

Not too bad of an evening. ☔ Raining out so I skipped my evening walk 🚶. I’m going to get to bed early tonight 😴, try to get a good night’s sleep and then do a walk in the morning before it gets hot.

I also need to find some time to pack for camp tomorrow ⛺ as it’s going to be a long trip north up to Piseco Powley Road with the south end of the road closed. I might walk the damaged side on Sunday to see some of the damage and spend lots of time at the Potholers. I have Monday off from work 🏊 and it’s going to be a hot one. I’m undecided but I may stay in the Speculator area through the end of the heat wave next week 🌊, not totally sure. I also need to buy groceries 🍏 and some gas ⛽ maybe tomorrow. Maybe I won’t leave until Saturday. I don’t know.

Tonight will have a chance of showers. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 64 degrees at 5am. Two degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 62 at 4am. South wind 13 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. In 2019, we had thunderstorm in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It was very sticky. It got down to 73 degrees. The record low of 45 occurred back in 1974.

Tonight will have a Waining Crescent 🌘 Moon with 14% illuminated. The Blue 🌝 Moon is on Friday, July 31. The darkest hour is at 1:02 am, followed by dawn at 4:59 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:33 am in the east-northeast (60°) and last for 3 minutes and 21 seconds. Sunrise is 51 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:15 am with sun in the east-northeast (67°). Tonight will have 9 hours and 3 minutes of darkness, an increase of one minute and 33 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 2pm. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 81 degrees at 3pm. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around August 10th. Maximum dew point of 71 at 5pm. Going to be a swamp tomorrow. South wind 10 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. It became humid as the day progressed. The high last year was 85 degrees. The record high of 99 was set in 1900.

So I really was hoping to get a new brighter 🔆 bulb in my desk lamp but I think I’m going to have to rethink that. While the bulb should work with a magnetic ballast per the label, apparently it won’t work with the ballast bypassed. I’m a bit impressed by primative technology, easy to work on and repair, assuming that you can get parts which are pretty uncommon these days. At some point if i want to upgrade the lamp I’ll have to get a small 12 volt power supply and mount it where the choke is. Then use LED tape and a deflector for the lamp. Maybe use a microprocessor to process the buttons – I could even make it dimmable. I could probably make a nice energy efficient lamp in there while keeping the buttons in tack.

Honestly, I am a bit tired of all this traveling and camping ⛺ but this muggy weather 😧 is awful being home. It’s nice to take the first vacation day since the pandemic started and have the whole day to myself without having to be somewhere with cell service and be checking and writing emails 📧 all day. The Potholers will be nice. I’m hoping by the summer end road will be fully open 🍂.

In four weeks on August 13 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (290°) at 7:59 pm,🌄 which is 30 minutes and 55 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had humid, partly sunny, thunderstorm and temperatures between 81 and 67 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 81 and 61 degrees. The record high of 98 degrees was set back in 1947.

I won’t say I’ve lost interest in my blog 📝 but with my limited internet access and doing so much updating from my phone 📱 it’s getting harder and harder to update and keep working well. I just don’t have the library wifi where I can sit inside to update it or the empty time of the bus 🚍 ride to and from work to write posts. Issues that should be fixed aren’t fixed for a long time. 🐛 I hope at some point life gets back to normal but when that happens I don’t know.