Good morning! Happy Tuesday. 🏢 Back to work after the long weekend although I’m taking off Friday for an extra short week. Two weeks to Ugly Truck Day 🚚. Cloudy and 69 degrees in Dormansville, NY. ☁ There is a south breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 66 degrees. The skies will clear around 7 pm. Going to be another real hot and humid day, although I think the clouds and thunderstorms should help break the heat.

Last night I stayed over at my parents house in the truck camper ⛺ and they made breakfast which pretty good. Drove home, had to slam on the brakes twice 🦌 as there was a lot of deer on the road. I fished at Lawson Lake 🎣 with my feet off the dock until I big snapper swam by. 🐢 I’m a scardy cat, what’s the worse thing a big snapper can do? They don’t bite unless you attack them or really scare them and they prefer to flee, especially in water where they tend to be quite fast. 💦 I also went hiking and bird watching – bunch of Ruffled Grouse on Sickle Hill Road along with song sparrows, Gold Finch, red wing blackbirds along the way. I did a little fishing 🎣 at White Birch Pond but the bugs were bad! 🐜

Today will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 10am. Some storms could be severe, with heavy rain. Partly sunny and hot 🌩, with a high of 90 degrees at 3pm. Six degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 70 at 9am. Heat index values as high as 95. South wind 8 to 16 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 88 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1886.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:01 pm with sun having an altitude of 70.2° from the due south horizon (-0.8° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.2 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:54 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (295°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (302°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:37 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 25 seconds with dusk around 9:10 pm, which is 19 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:55 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 83 degrees. The dew point will be 68 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 9 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 10 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 58 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of thunderstorms, mainly before 7pm. Some of the storms could be severe. Partly cloudy 🌩, with a low of 66 degrees at 5am. Four degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 68 at 6pm. Southwest wind 5 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2020, 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 69 degrees. The record low of 44 occurred back in 1979.

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Weekend forecast is definitely looking up. 😎 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 80. Maximum dew point of 65 at 7am. Sunday, a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 81. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 64 at 7pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 84 degrees.

I got to take off Friday for my eye doctor appointment 👀 and then head up to the Adirondacks. I think I can leave directly from the eye doctor to the Adirondacks. I’m sure they’ll want to dilate my pupils but too bad as I want to get up to camp ⛺ so I can spend the balance of the day in the Adirondacks. Only two weekends until summer vacation, it’s coming quickly.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Ugly Truck Day 🚚 when the sun will be setting at 8:27 pm with dusk at 9:00 pm. On that day in 2020, we had hot, humid, mostly sunny and temperatures between 87 and 69 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 84 degrees. We hit a record high of 97 back in 1991.