Good morning! Happy Thursday. Fog and clouds and 58 degrees out for my morning walk past the Bethlehem Central High School. 🌫 Calm wind. The dew point is 57 degrees. A tad bit of a mugginess in the air. The skies will clear Saturday around 5 am. I am glad I at least was able to get out for my walk.

Yesterday was an incredibly busy day 👨🏻‍💼 between the lunch time meeting downtown and the project I was working on. 📄 Kind of nice having things start to get closer back to normal. 😷 Still wearing the mask on the bus and hallways, but with everybody vaccinated didn’t have to be quite so concerned about maintaining six-feet in the office, 🔀. I do love the view from my office in the Smith building, but when I return downtown, I might actually be moving to a new private office, with not such a great view but closer to department I work with these days.

I went over to John Wolcott’s house for a while 📜 and while we didn’t find anything too exciting, it was an interesting afternoon in the sense a bunch of bullets rang out down the street about 5 minutes after I arrived. 🔫 Sounded like a 22lr gun, I tuned into police scanner and they said it was somebody shooting a long-gun in a blue Jeep liberty. 💥 They closed off the street for a while, and I don’t know what ended up happening but by the time I went to catch the bus, 🚌 everything was packed up and gone except for one remaining police car. 👮‍♀️ Don’t you know, you aren’t supposed to be shooting off your guns within 500 feet of an occupied structure that you don’t own. 🌲 One of the advantages of being in Adirondacks — being able to shoot your guns without people getting all pissy like they do in the ghetto. 🏚

Today will have showers likely, mainly between 2pm and 3pm, then rain after 3pm. Patchy fog before 9am. 🌦 High of 64 degrees at 1pm. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 1st. Maximum dew point of 58 at 2pm. 🏖️ Calm wind becoming north around 6 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 66 degrees. The record high of 88 was set in 1888. 1 inch of snow fell back in 1885.❄ Hardly something to write about, then again Saturday is May Day.

I am not expecting a real nice day, ⛈ and probably real wet later but at least I got out for my morning walk. I am thinking about going to laundromat 👕 but it will depend on how the day goes, I might change my mind later on. Starting to run low on groceries, but my list of things to do for work is so long 📋 that I don’t know if leaving my computer during the day is going to work. 📨 I’m also having some issues with emails on my phone. I’ll have to try to figure that out as I’ve been super busy lately. 🤖 But I guess it’s a good change, it makes me feel far less bored, and I’m getting important things done.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 62° from the due south horizon (-8.9° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.2 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:15 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (284°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (291°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:54 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 6 seconds with dusk around 8:24 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:02 pm. At sunset, look for rain showers 🌧 and temperatures around 62 degrees. The dew point will be 56 degrees. There will be a east-southeast breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 14 hours and one minute of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 32 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain before 8pm, then showers, mainly between 8pm and 2am. 🌧 Low of 53 degrees at 6am. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 30th. Maximum dew point of 57 at 6pm. 🏖️ Southeast wind 5 to 8 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. In 2020, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 47 degrees. The record low of 25 occurred back in 1874.

Ever since I got out camping I’ve been sleeping really well. 💤 It’s amazing what a few nights in the wilderness can do for sleeping. 🛌 Maybe it’s the campfires 🔥 or having a few beers up at camp, 🍺 but it’s probably just listening to sound of wilderness.

The weekend forecast has improved. 😎 Saturday, sunny, with a high near 55. Northwest wind 14 to 16 mph. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 68. Maximum dew point of 48 at 1pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 65 degrees. Yeah, I’ll take that forecast but it should also awaken the black flies. 🐜 That said, I think this is a stay at home weekend, just because next Monday doesn’t look great, and I just got back from the Adirondacks.

Looking ahead, there are 8 weeks until Strawberry Moon 🌕 when the sun will be setting at 8:37 pm with dusk at 9:12 pm. On that day in 2020, we had humid and humid weather partly sunny, rain showers and temperatures between 85 and 65 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 80 degrees. Yeah, that’s late June. We hit a record high of 96 back in 1943.