Summer

Pool closings

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With the what seems almost inevitable pool closings this summer 🏊 I’ve been thinking about places that would be good to cool off during hot weather…

  • Grout Pond in the Green Mountain National Forest
  • The Potholers on Piseco Powley Road
  • The swimming hole by the Old Fox Lair camp on NY 8 in the East Branch Sacandaga River
  • The West Branch Sacandaga River at White House
  • The Speculator Beach, assuming it’s unguarded
  • Wakely Dam – Cedar River Flow
  • Otter Creek near Eaton Road Campsites
  • South Branch Moose River by the falls campsite on Woodhull Lake Road
  • Moose River under the Otter Brook Bridge at Moose River Plains
  • Otter Brook under the Otter Brook Bridge
  • Schoharie Creek by the Rest Area if water levels allow
  • Schoharie Creek under the Blenheim Bridge
  • Swimming hole on the East Canada Creek by House Pond campsite

A much needed change in the weather

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It looks like as we head into the mid-July, we are in for a change in the weather pattern, with some hot and sunny weather expected. I’m looking forward to hopefully having some nice weather for my trip out to the Finger Lakes followed by Western NY and Allegheny National Forest in two weeks. Now I’m just hoping the bugs will get less bad with the weather drying and improving.

 

A Heat Wave Coming?

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It’s possible with summer coming up, and above average temperatures increasingly likely based on the latest predictions, Albany may hit 100 degrees — the first time that’s happened in more then 65 years.

Kane Mountain

Albany has not had 100 degree day since the August 27 – September 5, 1953 heat wave — the longest heat wave at 10 days long in Albany’s history. During the heat wave we had two days that it reached 100 degrees — September 2nd and 3rd.

Weather records for September:
https://www.weather.gov/media/aly/Climate/REF_Files/REFSEP.pdf

Longest heat waves in Albany’s history.
https://www.weather.gov/media/aly/Climate/heatwaves.pdf

San Francisco soars to 100 degrees as record heat wave roasts California and the West Coast – The Washington Post

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San Francisco soars to 100 degrees as record heat wave roasts California and the West Coast – The Washington Post

I wonder if the pattern will change and Albany this year will hit 100 degrees for the first time since Labor Day Weekend 1953.

That heat wave was so severe that there was 12 days in New York City above 95 degrees and a lot of cars died in traffic due to overheating engines and vapor locks as those old cars didn't preform well in the heat - including Robert Moses car overheated on the Grand Central Parkway.

The Potholers Today (From Heatwave 2018)

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While it will probably be a few weeks before I get back up north, this video looks back at the lazy-mid summer extended weekend I spent up north during the heat wave in 2018.