Good evening! Cloudy and 74 degrees at the Cherry Ridge Camping Area. ☁ There is a west-southwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 73 degrees. Felt cold in the air conditioned truck but it’s so damp outside when I got out. It’s cool enough that it doesn’t feel ungodly hot here but it’s so damp that I struggled to get a fire started even with the bag of kiln dried wood I brought with me here. 🔥

I was busy at work and missed the express bus home 🚍 but Mark from work saw me and gave me a ride home. Which was great until I got home got everything packed up per my list and realized that I forgot to bring my laptop charger. That wouldn’t be a problem except I told Lynne I would continue working on the Save the Pine Bush project during my vacation so I had to run home. 🏡 With the heat too I wasn’t moving that fast I must admit.

I ended up getting up to camp about a quarter before nine or two hours after I left home a second time. ⛺ Driving conditions were better than I expected although I did stop outside of Richfield Springs to close the windows on my truck cap due to rain and it poured ☔ driving through West Winfield. The storm clouds at times made it hard to see out here around dusk 🌆 but I made it to my destination safely. I connected up the accessory batteries to the alternator before I got to camp to ensure they didn’t run low.

I set up a fairly basic campsite, hanging up a few lights and the campstove. Cooked up some hot dogs and corn 🌽 on the cob, built a small fire after laying back in the hammock for a bit. Beautiful country driving out here but I wish I had gotten an earlier start as I was tired 😴 when I arrived.

Tonight will have showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 11pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 73 degrees at 2am. 11 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 73 at 9pm. West wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 57 degrees. The record low of 49 occurred back in 1974.

I expect when I retire for the night, I’ll run the fan most of the night 🌃 because it will likely be warmer in the truck cap and the fan can push air around and reduce the dampness.

Tonight will have a Waning Gibbous Moon 🌖 with 84% illuminated. The moon will set at 9:00 am. The Last Quarter Moon is on Tuesday night with mostly clear skies. The Strugeon Moon 🌝 is on Wednesday, August 14th. The sun will rise at 5:40 am with the first light at 5:07 am, which is 55 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 9 hours and 6 minutes of darkness, an increase of one minute and 42 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 10am. Partly sunny ☀ , with a high of 88 degrees at 4pm. Five degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 76 at 4pm. Heat index values as high as 99. West wind 6 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 88 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1991.

In four weeks on August 16 the sun will be setting at 8:01 pm,🌄 which is 33 minutes and 12 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had hot, humid, mostly sunny skies and temperatures between 88 and 69 degrees. Summer can continue on through August for sure. Typically, you have temperatures between 81 and 60 degrees. The record high of 97 degrees was set back in 1936.

Looking ahead, Labor Day Weekend Begins 👨‍🏭 is in 6 weeks and Friday the 13th 👿 is in 8 weeks.