Good morning! Monday’s come back around again. Partly sunny and 72 degrees at the Swift Wetland Preserve. There is a west-southwest breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 65 degrees. The muggy weather ends Wednesday around 7 pm. 😓

It certainly is a real muggy day. 😰 Last night was much worse, especially before dinner time. I ended up going to Tractor Supply and getting my propane tank filled, along with washing Big Red and getting groceries and two flash drives 💾 to replace the one that I lost that had all my music 🎶 on for listening in the truck and was using to move files 📂 between my personal and work laptop.

I thought yesterday was going to be a lot cooler and rainy ☔ then it turned out to be. After packing up hammock camp on Irish Hill I fished at White Birch Pond. 🎣 It was cloudy to start out the morning but it cleared and got hot and sunny. Caught two rock bass, one was big enough it would have filled a large frying 🍳 pan but I tossed it back in because they’re all bones. I saw a red tailed hawk overhead a couple of times then I looked up and noticed one of the hawks had a white head and some white tail feathers and realized it was a Bald Eagle. Neat!

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 86 degrees at 3pm. Four degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 65 at 8am. West wind 7 to 9 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. It was humid. The high last year was 85 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1975.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:02 pm with sun having an altitude of 64.7° from the due south horizon (-6.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:34 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (288°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (295°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:14 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 11 seconds with dusk around 8:44 pm, which is one minute and 13 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waining Gibbous 🌖 Moon in the east-southeast (117°) at an altitude of 0° from the horizon, 243,864 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:25 pm. At sunset, watch out thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 80 degrees. The dew point will be 66 degrees. Another super muggy evening There will be a west-southwest breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 22 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 15 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 4am. Increasing clouds 🌧, with a low of 69 degrees at 4am. Eight degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 67 at 4am. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It was humid. It got down to 62 degrees. The record low of 46 occurred back in 1966.

I got my new cellphone in the mail ✉ yesterday. 📱 I was surprised it came on a Saturday. I have yet to activate it but my old phone is barely holding a charge and once I get the case today I’ll switch over to it. 🔋 The new phone is charging now and once I get the case today I’ll move the SIM card 💳 and SD card over to the new phone and download apps that I normally use at the library 📚 this afternoon.

Going to be a nice, hot summer weekend. 🏊 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 84. Maximum dew point of 63 at 9am. Sunday, sunny, with a high near 87. Maximum dew point of 65 at 11am. Typical average high for the weekend is 82 degrees.

I am going to request next week off for vacation. ⛺ Not totally sure if I will get it but maybe I can work remotely part of the week if necessary. I think I’m going to my old standby of the Finger Lakes National Forest. Not going to spend a lot of time at the state parks but maybe a day or two I’ll go to the pool and swim but I’m sure parking 🅿 will be severely limited so I’ll have to get up early to swim 🏊. My oil change is tomorrow and after that I should be good to go.

There are 3 months until Election Day 2020 🗳️ when the sun will be setting at 4:45 pm with dusk at 5:14 pm (Standard Time).