Good evening! Mostly clear and 74 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a west-southwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 66 degrees. The muggy weather ends Wednesday around 7 pm. 😓
Kind of a muggy evening 🌃. It would have been a nice evening to be up north but I’m planning on getting up 5:30 am in the morning and being on the road by 6:30 or seven. Get set up early and then hit the Potholers come mid morning.
I have the screen tent, the replacement screen material needle, scissors ✂ and heavy duty coat thread that I’ll use to patch up the hole – I‘ll probably just tack on the corners first and as time allows on the weekend sew things on tightly. 🎪 I think the material I got will work well – it’s light and flexible, a soft material but durable but maybe a little heavier than the factory screen.
Looking forward to Potholers over the next few days. 🏊 I decided against the kayak as I will need solar power if I decide to spend the second half of the week in Speculator with my laptop working remotely. If it’s super hot in Albany I’d rather use the Spectolator Library Wi-Fi or the cellular internet rather than work from home. 😰
Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 64 degrees at 4am. Two degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 66 at 9pm. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It was sticky. It got down to 70 degrees. The record low of 46 occurred back in 1939.
Tonight will have a Waining Crescent 🌘 Moon with 8% illuminated. The Strugeon 🐡 Moon is on Saturday, August 1. The darkest hour is at 1:02 am, followed by dawn at 5:00 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:34 am in the east-northeast (60°) and last for 3 minutes and 20 seconds. Sunrise is 53 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:15 am with sun in the east-northeast (67°).Tonight will have 9 hours and 4 minutes of darkness, an increase of one minute and 36 seconds over last night.
It’s going to be a long trip north with the road closure 🚧 but I’m hoping that the road is rebuilt come the autumn. But it will be interesting to see how the area has changed since the storm.
Tomorrow will be sunny and hot ☀, with a high of 91 degrees at 2pm. Eight degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 66 at 11am. Calm wind becoming southwest around 6 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It was very sticky. The high last year was 80 degrees. The record high of 100 was set in 1953.
In four weeks on August 14 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (290°) at 7:58 pm,🌄 which is 31 minutes and 39 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 84 and 66 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 81 and 60 degrees. The record high of 97 degrees was set back in 1988.
I decided not to head to the Adirondacks until tomorrow morning … 🚵
Today turned out not to be as hot as expected, and honestly I don’t like having to fight traffic to get camping. I may try to retire to bed around 9 PM tonight, and pack my gear as much as possible tonight, and set my alarm for 5 AM. Then if I leave at 6 or 6:30 AM tomorrow, it will be pleasant drive north, and I get there by 9 AM, and have my first beer cracked open by 10 AM and be down to the Potholers by 11.
It’s going to be an extra long-trip up there having to drive up to Piseco due to lower Powley Road being closed. But I want to get up to Piseco-Powley Road at least once this summer, and enjoy the potholers. Maybe I’ll get back up there again come fall when the road re-opens but I’m going to take a wait and see approach towards that.
Earlier int he week, I got the screen-material to fix the screen tent, I just got to make sure I bring a needle and thread, and when I get to camp, I’ll tack it up on the tent, and sew it on while I have some free time come the long-weekend that I am taking. I plan only to stay on Piseco-Powley Road through Monday, after which I might come home but I’m thinking of camping close to Spectulator and doing my work day on Tuesday at the Piseco Library and maybe part of the day at the Town Park overlooking Lake Pleasant the beach.
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