Good evening! Partly clear and 67 degrees at the Green Mountain National Forest. 🌃 There is a west-southwest breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 65 degrees. The muggy weather ends Tuesday around 10 pm. 😓

So after my spade ♤ of bad luck 🍀 yesterday I moved to a new campsite near the Somerset Bridge and the Airfield camping area. Not as quiet and remote as the other area, I’m close to a good swimming hole 🏊 and I have a lot more solar power and ability to enjoy the stars ✨ on a clear night. Radio 📻 reception isn’t as good so I have fewer choices on live radio here – no New Hampshire or Vermont Public Radio here.

It was a busy day, warm but not as oppressive as it’s back in the city. 🌆 I did go for a few short swims and cool downs during the day but most of the day I was up to my neck finishing up another one of those 30 page memos 📝 and then this afternoon it was a big spreadsheet project. 📊 Rained for a while, actually it poured for a while at the four o’clock hour so my final hour ⏳ of the day was spent working from inside my truck cap. Internet worked fine most of the day 📶 and I had no trouble accessing the VPN connection for all the files 📂 I needed from the server. I also used the 120 volt fan in the tent 🎪 with my laptop and that worked good to keep things nice and comfortable.

While I’m still finding litter 🚮 at the campsite and are picking it up when I find it, I am quite happy with this campsite near the swimming hole even if it’s not the remote country of yesterday. 🐺 Being able to wash and cool off in the heat 😎 makes it a lot more enjoyable.

I am thinking I will stay through Saturday morning, when it looks like it will be rainy. ☔ By then the worse of the heat wave will likely break and I will have all day to drive home at my own pace rather than rushing home before 9 o’clock or leaving after 5 pm.

Tonight will have isolated showers before 10pm. Patchy fog after midnight. Otherwise, partly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 64 degrees at 4am. Three degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 66 at 11pm. West wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 59 degrees. The record low of 41 occurred back in 1963.

Tonight will have a Waining Gibbous 🌖 Moon with 83% illuminated. The moon will rise at 11:11 pm. The Buck 🦌 Moon is on Thursday, July 23. The darkest hour is at 12:58 am, followed by dawn at 4:48 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:22 am in the east-northeast (58°) and last for 3 minutes and 26 seconds. Sunrise is 43 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:05 am with sun in the east-northeast (65°). Tonight will have 8 hours and 50 minutes of darkness, an increase of one minute and 8 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 10am. Mostly sunny , with a high of 83 degrees at 3pm. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical day around July 13th. Maximum dew point of 68 at 10am. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. 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 86 degrees. The record high of 103 was set in 1936.

In four weeks on August 5 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (294°) at 8:07 pm,🌄 which is 24 minutes and 46 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had sunny and temperatures between 83 and 54 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 82 and 61 degrees. The record high of 99 degrees was set back in 1955.