Tompkins County

Tompkins County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, and comprises the whole of the Ithaca metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 101,564. The county seat is Ithaca, and the county is home to Cornell University, Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community College.

Tompkins County is in the west central part of New York State, south of Syracuse and northwest of Binghamton. It is usually geographically grouped with the Finger Lakes region, but some locals consider themselves to be part of Central New York or the Southern Tier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tompkins_County,_New_York

July 26, 2016 Afternoon

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Good afternoon! Partly cloudy and 83 degrees in Trumansburg. There is a northwest breeze at 11 mph. The dew point is 61 degrees.

A nice afternoon but a bit humid…

Right now I’m at the Taughannock State Park Beach at Cayuga Lake but I have yet to put on a bathing suit and hop into the sure to be frigid water of the largest Finger Lake. The beach is open until 7 pm. I was at the Roger Treman State Park earlier and explored the Enfield Glen but the swimming was closed today due to the turbidity caused by yesterday’s rain. 

It’s just so nice sitting down by the lake. 

It’s pretty remarkable how Taughannock Falls is but a trickle from the dry conditions of late. I’ll post pictures later but for now, I can say that the Taughannock Creek bed is almost completely dry. I’ve never seen it so dry.  A major slide has detoured part of the Gorge. It must have happened since the last time I was here in late April.