Good morning! Monday’s come back around again. Four weeks to Hottest Time of the Year 😅. That with the new climate normals is 85 degrees, although it will certainly be warmer than that today in Albany. Not quite as warm though in Spectulator. Sunny and 66 degrees in Speculator, NY. 🌞 Calm wind. The dew point is 61 degrees. Going to be hot and muggy, though not as bad as back home where the shades are drawn.

Yesterday was a nice day 🏖 did some swimming at the Spectulator beach 🏊🏻‍♂️ after hiking back to the Kunjamunk Cave and the Kunjamunk Creek by the gravel permit although the increasingly high grass, likely filled with ticks, snowmobile trail didn’t lead me to Elm Lake, at least it did take me back to the road. I was tired 😴 though after all that time in the sun ☀. Got ice cream 🍦at the Sacandaga Creamery and ice and apple 🍏 juice at Charlie John’s which I certainly needed with the heat.

Today will have isolated showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Sunny 🌞, with a high of 84 degrees at 2pm. Seven degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 63 at 8am. 😰 Light west wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning. 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 75 degrees. The record high of 95 was set in 1999.

I am hoping to work entirely from camp today 💻 although I’m fully prepared to head into town should a Zoom Meeting be called so I can use my laptop with the virtual background over the library Wi-Fi. Otherwise I’m content with using my phone for streaming video and the Hotspot and laptop for most other tasks. Going to be a late night at work but my phone 📱 should work good assisted by my laptop as necessary. I booted windows earlier this morning to ensure it was working.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:57 pm with sun having an altitude of 69.3° from the due south horizon (-0.6° 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 7:53 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (296°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (303°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:37 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 31 seconds with dusk around 9:11 pm, which is 39 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:58 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 76 degrees. The dew point will be 63 degrees. There will be a west-southwest breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 19 minutes of daytime, an increase of 56 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have isolated showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy , with a low of 66 degrees at 3am. 11 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 64 at 10pm. West wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2020, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 49 degrees. The record low of 38 occurred back in 1951.

On this day in 1965, the Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, scattered showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 72. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 52 at 7pm. Sunday, scattered showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 76. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 54 at 8am. Typical average high for the weekend is 79 degrees.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Summer ️⛱️ when the sun will be setting at 8:41 pm with dusk at 9:17 pm. On that day in 2020, we had hot, mostly sunny and temperatures between 92 and 69 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 81 degrees. We hit a record high of 97 back in 1938.