Speculator, NY

Good morning! Today 8:30 PM Sunset 🌇 . It’s even later as we are farther west here in Speculator. Next Tuesday is Primary Day 🗳️ . Hot and humid morning here in Speculator, NY — around 67 degrees. Some sun but not a lot. 🌦 Calm wind. The dew point is 65 degrees. Might see some sun today, but it will be hot and pretty miserable today. But I bet it’s even worse in Albany.

Yesterday, was pretty much a typical work day, rather hot by mid-afternoon. 😅 I tried to stay cool, and keep my coolers cool – but already the heat has been tough on the ice. I am trying to use up as much of the milk, eggs, and meat as possible 🥩 🥛 before it goes rancid between my breakfast of eggs and sausage, 🍳 and burritos 🌯 for dinner last night.

Today will have isolated showers before 9am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 9am and 3pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 3pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a high of 78 degrees at 12pm. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 9th. Maximum dew point of 66 at 8am. West wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 81 degrees. The record high of 93 was set in 2011.

I am slowly taking down camp, ⛺ leaving up the screen tent as long as possible to dry out. We had a good rain shower a little before dusk last night and got everything wet, although I was able to hop in back of my truck and miss out in the brief but very heavy rain. A bit worried about the weather later today for driving back after work, but I”ll take it one hour at a time. 🌩 If it gets too bad, I guess I can stay overnight and leave very early to drive home.

Buggy this morning, and just super humid. 🐜 Today I will work in town, either down by Lake Algonquin and the Speculator Library. 💻 Yesterday I worked from camp, with the hotspot and the phone, but I don’t want to use too much bandwidth and sometimes the internet was a bit unreliable. While it was certainly cooler to camp off of NY 8B, although I probably would have had much more reliable and faster service if I had camped off of Hartwood Hill. 📶

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:57 pm with sun having an altitude of 69.4° from the due south horizon (-0.6° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:54 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (296°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (304°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:37 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 31 seconds with dusk around 9:11 pm, which is 38 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:59 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 72 degrees. The dew point will be 64 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 15 hours and 20 minutes of daytime, an increase of 53 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 8pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 8pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 62 degrees at 4am. Six degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 65 at 10pm. Light west wind. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2020, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 58 degrees. The record low of 37 occurred back in 1977.

On this day in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy’s funeral takes place at the St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. Ironically, or maybe not, NPR had a story about RFK Jr., maybe not the good RFK, about the his anti-vaccine activism. I think it’s kind of silly, but if people don’t want to get the two shots and want to get sick from COVID-19, then it’s their loss. I don’t think it’s bad to ask questions.

After the hot weather lately, it is expected to cool down by the weekend. 😎 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 74. Maximum dew point of 52 at 8am. Sunday, scattered showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 73. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 54 at 8pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 79 degrees.

As previously noted, next Tuesday is Primary Day 🗳️ when the sun will be setting at 8:40 pm with dusk at 9:15 pm. On that day in 2020, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 78 and 49 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 79 degrees. We hit a record high of 96 back in 1988.