Good morning! Happy Strawberry Moon! 🍓 🌕 It pretty brilliant last night. I had strawberries on my pancakes this morning to celebrate. 🥞 I wonder if I can find wild strawberries in the fields. They are so good too. Next Thursday is July 🏊🏿. Mine Kill pool opens then. Sunny and 55 degrees out walking past the Bethlehem Central High School. 🌞 Calm wind. The dew point is 49 degrees. A bit warmer then yesterday, although not much.

Out for my morning walk 🚶🏻 and it’s a nice one with the sun ☀ warming things up quickly. Running a few minutes late as I was a bit tardy getting out of bed 🛏 looking at blog stuff and Tiktok, rather than getting out of bed and walking 🚶🏻. But the coffee is brewing now ☕ and I am throwing together a quick lunch. 🚿 I will shower shortly after my pancakes 🥞 are done. Seeing how tight I can run my morning and still make the bus in time for work. 🚌 Still limited service in the morning and rush hour, no express buses.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 79 degrees at 3pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 15th. Maximum dew point of 52 at 10am. Light south wind increasing to 5 to 9 mph in the morning. Should be a nice summer day. 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 96 was set in 1943.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:59 pm with sun having an altitude of 70.8° from the due south horizon (-0° vs. 6/21). The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:55 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (297°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (304°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:38 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 28 seconds with dusk around 9:12 pm, which is 7 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the southeast (127°) at an altitude of 1° from the horizon, 228,908 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:58 pm. At sunset, look for clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 71 degrees. The dew point will be 51 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 18 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 12 seconds over yesterday.

My neighbors have this gas fire pit 🔥 that they have on the deck which somehow worries me but I guess being gas it’s relatively safe as there isn’t firebrands or sparks coming off it. ✨ But while I’m a fire bug 🐛 I am so careful with fire and would never have anything like that near my house.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 51 degrees at 3am. Nine degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 26th. Maximum dew point of 51 at 8pm. South wind 3 to 7 mph. 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 57 degrees. The record low of 45 occurred back in 1982.

The weekend looks like a summer weekend. 🏖 Saturday, a slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 84. South wind 8 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Maximum dew point of 67 at 11am. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 88. Maximum dew point of 69 at 8am. It will be muggy for sure but fairly seasonable. Typical average high for the weekend is 82 degrees.

Looking forward to the weekend and catching the Nature Bus 🐦 up to Thacher Park. While I could certainly drive there, it’s just kind of more of an adventure to take bus 🚍 plus then you can enjoy the scenery and not have to worry about parking 🅿 and speed traps. Pack a lunch 🥪, water 💦, bathing suit if I walk to Thompsons Lake, 🏊🏻‍♂️ book to read 📖 and an extra battery 🔋 for the phone. Maybe binoculars and the camera too. 📸

As previously noted, next Thursday is July 🏊🏿 when the sun will be setting at 8:37 pm with dusk at 9:11 pm. On that day in 2020, we had partly sunny, shallow fog and temperatures between 83 and 64 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 83 degrees. We hit a record high of 99 back in 1913.