Good afternoon! Mostly sunny and 77 degrees in Speculator, NY. Calm wind. The dew point is 57 degrees. A very a beautiful afternoon up here in Spectulator, but I tell you Charlie Johns was crazy. And not just the prices. I have gotten too used to shopping at Aldi’s in Rensselear and when you go to these hick town shopping stores, 🧑‍🌾 you understand why folks are so poor in the hick towns. 🤑 Been enjoying the day, spending most of the morning working down at lake with my laptop working on my memorandum.💻

This afternoon will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 80 degrees at 3pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around August 18th. Maximum dew point of 58 at 6pm. Light east wind. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 82 degrees. The record high of 96 was set in 1941.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:04 pm with sun having an altitude of 66.2° from the due south horizon (-3.7° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.6 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:48 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (292°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (299°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:29 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 20 seconds with dusk around 9:01 pm, which is 58 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the west-southwest (255°) at an altitude of 23° from the horizon, 227,058 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:45 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 72 degrees. The dew point will be 60 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 14 hours and 49 minutes of daytime, a decrease of one minute and 58 seconds over yesterday.

After I get done with work tonight, it’s off to Piseco-Powley Road for round 2. 🏕 No cell service up there, so I will be off the phone grid through mid-day summer. So nobody can call me or bug with my social media pings.🔇🔕 More and more, after being so busy with work in June into July, I am enjoying my time with no social media and no phone calls or emails.📩

Tonight will have patchy fog after 5am. Otherwise, mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 58 degrees at 5am. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around August 27th. Maximum dew point of 60 at 8pm. Calm wind. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 59 degrees. The record low of 46 occurred back in 1953.

On this day in 1969, Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean. Mission accomplished! Good for all involved. 🚀In 1974, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor. 🧑‍⚖️ In 1959, at the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a “Kitchen Debate”. ⏲️ I hear the United States wins that one. We had better toasters then the USSR, 🍞 ours back in the 1960s, would automatically, and gently load the bread for perfect results. Of course, they don’t

Tomorrow will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 81 degrees at 3pm. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around August 10th. Maximum dew point of 60 at 8am. Sounds like it might be a bit cool at the potholers. 🏞️ But it still will be fun. I was thinking about camping down by Austin Falls, that I explored last night, but I think I’d rather spend my day at the Potholers. So sue me. Calm wind becoming west around 6 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 85 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1963.

Looking ahead to Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 82. West wind 6 to 11 mph. 😎 Maximum dew point of 62 at 7pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 83 degrees.