Good evening! Mostly cloudy ☁and 70 degrees in Speculator, NY. Calm wind. The dew point is 57 degrees.

I decided to stay up here at least one more night 🌃 so I could look at the stars, ✨ but it seems like it clouded up. I’m going to take a wait and see approach to tomorrow – if it’s really wet I’ll work from my truck at the library and then head home. 💻 I have more cell service here so I might be able to work from camp but it depends on how much data I need for work.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 58 degrees at 4am. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around August 27th. Maximum dew point of 57 at 9pm. Light and variable wind. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It became humid as the night progressed. It got down to 66 degrees. The record low of 47 occurred back in 1970.

Tonight will have a New 🌚 Moon with 2% illuminated. At 9 PM, the moon was in the west-northwest (292°) at an altitude of 6° from the horizon, some 232,599 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by January 14^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Strugeon 🐡 Moon is on Monday, August 3. The darkest hour is at 1:04 am, followed by dawn at 5:03 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:37 am in the east-northeast (61°) and last for 3 minutes and 22 seconds. Sunrise is 58 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:19 am with sun in the east-northeast (68°). Tonight will have 9 hours and 6 minutes of darkness, an increase of one minute and 51 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 4pm. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 77 degrees at 2pm. Six degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 1st. Maximum dew point of 64 at 5pm. South wind 3 to 7 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 was humid. The high last year was 74 degrees. The record high of 102 was set in 1926.

Well I’ll see how things play out tomorrow. 🔥 It’s nice laying back on the hammock and I had a small fire but I’m going to head to bed soon. 😴

In four weeks on August 18 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (289°) at 7:55 pm,🌄 which is 35 minutes and 34 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mist showers, hot, humid, mostly cloudy and temperatures between 87 and 67 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 80 and 60 degrees. The record high of 95 degrees was set back in 1913.

Looking ahead, Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 15 weeks.