Good morning! Happy Saturday. Finally the weekend! Three weeks to Strugeon Moon 🌕 . Cloudy, rain showers and 57 degrees at the John Boyd Thacher State Park. ☁️ Calm wind. The dew point is 56 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 11 am.

Not a super nice day but the Nature Bus 🚍 is free and I wanted to get out of Delmar today for a few hours to do some hiking, nature observation and reading 📖. If we get some rain, I figure there is always the patio I can wait out the rain showers with. 💧 It doesn’t look like all day rain ☔ but especially up north it would have been a rather miserable day. ☁️ Why stay home if you can catch a free bus to Thacher Park though?

Today will have a chance of showers. Cloudy 🌦, with a high of 61 degrees at 6pm. 22 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 19th. Maximum dew point of 56 at 11am. Light north wind. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It was very sticky. The high last year was 83 degrees. The record high of 102 was set in 1911.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:01 pm with sun having an altitude of 70.3° from the due south horizon (-0.5° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.2 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:55 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (296°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (303°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:38 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 27 seconds with dusk around 9:12 pm, which is 13 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:58 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 58 degrees. The dew point will be 55 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 15 hours and 14 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 48 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 54 degrees at 4am. Eight degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around June 5th. Maximum dew point of 56 at 6pm. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2020, we had thunderstorm in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It was sticky. It got down to 65 degrees. The record low of 44 occurred back in 1971.

Yesterday I got a stack of books 📚 out of the library, it’s nice that things are pretty much back to normal at the library – I can go down there and work inside the air conditioned library any of the normal times 😎 and get my own books by browsing. I guess during the later part of the pandemic 😷 if you masked up you were allowed to browse books but they had all these requirements for masking and it wasn’t like you could sit down or dilly daly. Brought a personal book 📙 from home to read up at the park, as I didn’t want to risk getting a library book wet should it rain. 🌧️

On this day in 1886, the New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, 🖥 eliminating typesetting by hand. 📰 That was certainly good news for newspapers and I guess it reduced the price of typesetting any kind of book although computers are vastly better. 📙

I am starting to regret a bit my decision to cut my phone plan back, 📱 but I felt like I spent too much time playing on my phone, watching stupid YouTube of rednecks doing redneck shit. 🔫 🔥 🚜 I also felt like I didn’t need the hot spot working more in the office these days as remote work 💻 winds down. The smaller plan starts right before vacation and runs until August 20th and it’s irreversible at this point as it’s paid. 📖 But I want to read more books and stay off the internet more – or at least limit my personal internet use primarily to hours when I’m down at the library.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Strugeon Moon 🌕 when the sun will be setting at 8:24 pm with dusk at 8:57 pm. On that day in 2020, we had humid, partly sunny and temperatures between 82 and 65 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 84 degrees. We hit a record high of 96 back in 1941.