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Schuyler County
Connecticut Hill and Cayuta Lake
Today’s Almanac for Sunday July 31
Today’s Almanac
Night before dawn is 5 hours and 25 minutes,
Dawn starts at 5:25 am and runs for 30 minutes,
Sunrise is at 5:56 am which is 6 hours and 3 minutes before noon,
High noon, the transit of the sun, is at 1:12 pm,
From twelve noon to the sunset at 8:29 pm is 8 hours and 29 minutes,
Dusk lasts for 29 minutes concluding at 8:59 pm,
Leaving 3 hours and 0 minutes until midnight.
Weather Update – July 31, 2022
Warm and sunny to start out August 🌞
Definitely though not as hot and sunny as back in Albany and it’s always pretty nice up here on Hector Backbone. Not a lot of rain in the forecast though it’s actually not super dry in this part of the Finger Lakes. It’s probably drier back in Albany. But not so wet that everything is mud like often is the case up here where the soils are shallow above the bedrock.
| Today. Feels like … August 14th. |
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Mostly sunny.
Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon.
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82 degrees | 60 max dew point | 8:29 sunset |
| Tonight. Hot ! |
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Partly cloudy.
South wind around 6 mph.
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66 degrees | 62 max dew point | 5:57 sunrise |
| Monday. Feels like … July 15th. |
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Sunny.
South wind 5 to 10 mph.
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84 degrees | 64 max dew point | 8:28 sunset |
| Monday Night. Muggy ! |
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A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy.
South wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
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69 degrees | 66 max dew point | 5:58 sunrise |
| Tuesday. Feels like … August 28th. |
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A slight chance of showers before 8am, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms between 8am and 2pm. Mostly sunny.
Northwest wind 6 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
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80 degrees | 67 max dew point | 8:27 sunset |
| Tuesday Night. Feels like … July 31st. |
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Mostly clear.
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62 degrees | 62 max dew point | 5:59 sunrise |
| Wednesday. Hot ! |
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Sunny.
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87 degrees | 61 max dew point | 8:25 sunset |
| Wednesday Night. Hot ! |
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Partly cloudy.
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72 degrees | 64 max dew point | 6:00 sunrise |
| Thursday. Muggy ! |
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Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly after 2pm. Partly sunny.
Chance of precipitation is 60%.
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90 degrees | 70 max dew point | 8:24 sunset |
| Thursday Night. Muggy ! |
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Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 8pm, then a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy.
Chance of precipitation is 60%.
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69 degrees | 70 max dew point | 6:01 sunrise |
| Friday. Feels like … September 1st. |
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A chance of showers. Mostly sunny.
Chance of precipitation is 40%.
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79 degrees | 67 max dew point | 8:23 sunset |
| Friday Night. Hot ! |
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Partly cloudy.
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66 degrees | 64 max dew point | 6:02 sunrise |
| Saturday. Hot ! |
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Sunny.
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85 degrees | 64 max dew point | 8:22 sunset |
Weather Update – July 30, 2022
The week ahead … 😎
| This Afternoon. Feels like … August 14th. |
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Mostly sunny. Northwest wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.
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82 degrees | 58 max dew point | 8:29 sunset |
| Tonight. Feels like … September 6th. |
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Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, mostly clear. Light and variable wind.
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56 degrees | 5:57 sunrise |
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| Sunday. Hot ! |
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Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, mostly sunny. Calm wind becoming south around 6 mph in the afternoon.
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86 degrees | 62 max dew point | 8:29 sunset |
| Sunday Night. Feels like … July 31st. |
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Mostly clear. Light south wind.
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62 degrees | 60 max dew point | 5:58 sunrise |
| Monday. Muggy ! |
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A chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny. South wind 3 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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87 degrees | 66 max dew point | 8:28 sunset |
| Monday Night. Muggy ! |
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A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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66 degrees | 66 max dew point | 5:59 sunrise |
| Tuesday. Feels like … July 15th. |
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A chance of showers. Mostly sunny. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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84 degrees | 69 max dew point | 8:27 sunset |
| Tuesday Night. Feels like … August 26th. |
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Mostly clear.
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59 degrees | 6:00 sunrise |
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| Wednesday. Hot ! |
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Sunny.
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88 degrees | 61 max dew point | 8:26 sunset |
| Wednesday Night. Hot ! |
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Partly cloudy.
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65 degrees | 61 max dew point | 6:01 sunrise |
| Thursday. Muggy ! |
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Sunny and hot.
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97 degrees | 68 max dew point | 8:25 sunset |
| Thursday Night. Muggy ! |
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A chance of showers. Partly cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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70 degrees | 68 max dew point | 6:02 sunrise |
| Friday. Muggy ! |
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A chance of showers. Mostly sunny and hot. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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92 degrees | 70 max dew point | 8:23 sunset |
Big Fire
I don't see any black smoke there? Lol. Good way to start vacation.
Taken on Friday July 29, 2022 at Finger Lakes National Forest.Daily Update – July 30, 2022
Good afternoon! Happy Saturday from the Finger Lakes.
First full day of vacation, though I got a pretty early start on Friday and was actually setting up camp by noontime on Friday, followed by light work by email and some drinking.
Mostly sunny and 77 degrees at the Aunt Sarah’s Falls. ☀ There is a northwest breeze at 10 mph. 🍃 with gusts up to 20 mph 💨💨💨. The dew point is 58 degrees.
Today I’m out hiking a bit of the Catharine Valley Rail Trail 🚂 and Aunt Sarah’s Falls and then I’m going to head over to Watkins Glen State Park to swim 🏊♂️ for a while. The park is usually crowded on the weekend but I have my place where I like to park and hopefully the full pool will be open. 🍧 Then I’ll get ice cream and sit down by Seneca Lake for a while then head back to camp.
While it’s not super dry in the Finger Lakes where I am 💧there isn’t a lot of water going over Aunt Sarah’s Falls. The birds 🐦 are fairly ordinary on Catharine Creek Marsh today, a lot of bicyclist 🚴 on the rail trail. Not a race weekend 🏎 but still pretty busy down in the village today.
This year cutting back a little bit on day trips due to price of gas and those hills where I swear I see the needle drop as a climb them. ⛽Figure alternate each day between camp and heading to town, works well with the ice. Trying to keep my fuel bill under $250 for vacation but still get out and do things but not feel rushed.
I actually got good gas mileage coming out to the Finger Lakes. 🛻That’s despite having the kayak 🛶 on the roof of my Big Jacked Up truck. I tried to avoid using passing gear climbing the hills, traffic was light on a Friday morning and I climbed the hills at 35-45 mph and took my foot off the gas as soon as I reached the summit. Even on Interstate 88 I rarely hit 60 but to be fair the road was mostly under construction and posted at 55.
That said, on Friday it was a nice leisurely drive out to the Finger Lakes. 🚜 I like seeing all the farms and small towns, the run down and somewhat disorderly homesteads along the hills and the deep valleys. I’m not a big fan of NY 206 and NY 78 especially near Ithaca due to the traffic and hot to trot drivers but on a Friday morning unlike a weekend it was very quiet. I got to camp around noon time Friday.
Spent most of Friday afternoon setting up camp. ⛺ I figured if I am going to stay here all nine nights might as well get it set up nice. Ended up camping at my usual site on Chicken Co-op Road 🐔 (as my GPS calls it), which was good as I need cell service 📱 so I can text and email 📧 for work. Kind of a working vacation scheduled this year. Busy year with all those political campaigns going on.
The mud is wallow into this campsite is getting deep 🐽 so I trenched it out, draining it out and then finding rocks and mud in the woods to fill it in. It’s still kind of soft and a mess but I think with the dry weather and the water mostly drained end ditched off things should improve over the week. I figure I can keep adding rock to fill it in more as needed.