Good morning! Happy Saturday. It’s the weekend! I’m heading home later today. Overcast and 63 degrees at the Jones Pond. ☁ Calm wind. The dew point is 52 degrees. The skies will clear around noontime.

I took down camp ⛺ and all is packed and except for the hammock and the kayak. I am going to go for one more paddle on Jones Pond and then maybe check out the Bloomingdale Marsh. Then I’ll head down through the High Peaks 🗻 and then down the Northway. With the Mauls closed ⛔ I expect traffic to be light on the expressway but I can always hop on US 9 at times if I’m bored.

Today will have a 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 10am. Partly sunny 🌦, with a high of 76 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 9th. Maximum dew point of 58 at 2pm. South wind 3 to 7 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 87 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1941.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:02 pm with sun having an altitude of 69.1° from the due south horizon (-0.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 8:02 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (297°). 📸 The sunset is in the northwest (305°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:46 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 36 seconds with dusk around 9:22 pm, which is one second earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the southwest (230°) at an altitude of 38° from the horizon, 226,590 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 10:11 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 70 degrees. The dew point will be 60 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 15 hours and 29 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 27 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2am, then a slight chance of showers between 2am and 3am. Patchy dense fog after 4am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 58 degrees at 6am. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around June 21st. Maximum dew point of 61 at 9pm. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 60 degrees. The record low of 43 occurred back in 1970.

On this day in 1985, U.S. Route 66 is officially removed from the United States Highway System. 🚧 You could no longer get you’re kicks on Route 66 because everybody was taking I-40 and I-44 through the heartland of America.