Good evening! Cloudy and 62 degrees at the Lake Pleasant. ☁️There is a south-southwest breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 59 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 11 am.

I can’t believe how dark end dreary it got after a nice day. 😕 Clouds just kind of pushed in and it got dark early. The nights are already pretty long but are even longer in this lousy weather. But at least tomorrow should be nicer. A few drops of rain 💧 this evening but nothing major so far.

Today was a nice day with lots of color exploring Watch Hill on Indian Lake and Sawyer Mountain ⛰ which I was less impressed with. I thought about also hiking back to Rock Lake but it was already getting late and sunset is so early this time of year. I think if I did it again I’d either have skipped Sawyer Mountain – which is best enjoyed in the morning hours due to the overlook location – or spent less time at the Indian Lake library uploading photos slowly 🖱️on the very sluggish Wi-Fi that is common in the Adirondacks.

Spent some time laying in the hammock for a while and had a small fire 🔥, listening to podcasts until around 10 pm. Nights are long this time of year so it’s difficult to stay up particularly late. A bunch of loud motorcycles 🏍 came through but after the thunderous rumble they were gone as fast as they came. While no Moose Festival this year in Indian Lake it was packed with motorcyclists when I drove through town.

Tonight will have isolated showers. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 57 degrees at 3am. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 2nd. Maximum dew point of 59 at 8pm. South wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2019, we had patches of fog in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 46 degrees. The record low of 24 occurred back in 1947.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon with 78% illuminated. At 8 PM, the moon was in the south-southeast (159°) at an altitude of 23° from the horizon, some 240,582 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 March 28^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Hunter 🏹 Moon is on Thursday, October 1. The darkest hour is at 12:50 am, followed by dawn at 6:22 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:51 am in the east (91°) and last for 2 minutes and 56 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:28 am with sun in the east (98°). Tonight will have 12 hours and 4 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 58 seconds over last night.

I think it’s the camp grittle that is attracting mice to my truck cap. When it’s not in the camper there doesn’t seem to be a mouse problem. 🐭 Of course tonight I spilled some rubbing alcohol everywhere and my truck cap smells like a doctor office 🏢 so no mouse would dream of going near my truck cap. 😂 I usually bring it to help clean my hands 👐🏻 especially now with old Coronavirus being such a worry. 👾I doubt the smell 👃🏻 will last for long though. Alcohol is very volatile and evaporates quickly.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of showers before 9am. Partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 73 degrees at 2pm. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 15th. Maximum dew point of 61 at 4pm. South wind 8 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 72 degrees. The record high of 89 was set in 2017.

Not sure what my plans are for tomorrow 🤔, been thinking about parking 🅿 at Sled Harbor 🛷 and hiking back to Pillsbury Lake. I don’t want to have to find a space to park in what is certain to be packed parking lot at the end of Old Military Turnpike. ⚔

In four weeks on October 24 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (254°) at 5:59 pm,🌄 which is 47 minutes and 28 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 68 and 35 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 57 and 37 degrees. The record high of 75 degrees was set back in 2017.

Looking ahead, Northern Zone Regular Season 🦌 is in 3 weeks, Halloween 🦇 and the Blue Moon 🌕 is in 5 weeks, Thanksgiving 🦃 is in 2 months, Small Business Saturday 🛍️ is in 9 weeks, Repeal of Prohibition Day 🍺 is in 10 weeks, Boxing Day 🥊 is in 3 months, Static Electric Shock Day 🧼 is in 15 weeks, National Cheese Lovers Day 🧀 is in 17 weeks, 5:30 PM Dusk 🌆 is in 4 months, Save the Pine Bush Turns 43 🦋 is in 19 weeks, 5:30 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 21 weeks, and Snow Moon 🌕 is in 22 weeks.