Good morning! Happy Saturday from the Pennsylvania Wilds! Statistically today, the hottest time of the summer is over, although we can still have some real hot days. Next Saturday is Campfire Day 🔥. I’m thinking about next week going to the Potholers and Piesco Powley Road as summer is rapidly disappearing and it will be August by then 💭. Sunny and 60 degrees at the Allegheny National Forest. 🌞 Calm wind. The dew point is 57 degrees. No fog up here but maybe in the valley 🌁.

I see this morning that I forgot to buy more coffee yesterday. Too bad. ☕ I had enough grounds today, I just perculated them extra long for the desired strength. It’s fine, tomorrow I’ll get a cup at McDonald’s in Wellsboro or so without. It’s a pleasant morning, in a little bit I’ll start taking down camp.

I’m laying in my hammock working on this blog post. 📝 Bugs are already biting and the sun is in my eyes. 👀 I think the next step is to download pictures and video 📹 from my dash cam for storage. Then take down camp.

I’ve been thinking I really need to get a good camp shovel as the trowel is not cutting it for digging poop holes 💩, especially now that I’m burying organics like corn cobs 🌽 and similar waste rather than try to burn it. Plus it would have been nice to “fix” that big mud wallow where I was camping back in the Finger Lakes.

Today will have a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny ☀, with a high of 80 degrees at 3pm. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around August 18th. Maximum dew point of 60 at 6pm. Calm wind becoming southwest 5 to 8 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became rain by afternoon. It was very sticky. The high last year was 86 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1955.

Today sounds like a nice day for my final full day of summer vacation. ☀ There is a lot I want to see and do before the day is done – so I should get moving – Jake’s Rocks, Alleghany Reservoir, Rim Rock, Port Allegany Glass Park, and explore Pine Creek Gorge. I forgot to bring a Tioga State Forest map but I think I can get it on my phone. 📱 Its always fun to see the changing landscape as you drive through the Northern Tier of Pennsylvania.

The sun will set at 8:38 pm with dusk around 9:10 pm, which is one minute earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 73 degrees. The dew point will be 61 degrees. There will be a southwest breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 33 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 58 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 60 degrees at 6am. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around August 14th. Maximum dew point of 61 at 8pm. Southwest wind around 6 mph. In 2018, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It was sticky. It got down to 67 degrees. The record low of 44 occurred back in 1971.

As previously noted, next Saturday is Campfire Day 🔥 when the sun will be setting at 8:30 pm with dusk at 9:01 pm. On that day in 2018, we had rain and temperatures between 80 and 72 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 82 degrees. We hit a record high of 97 back in 1975.