Good evening! Cloudy, damoand 69 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ Calm wind. The dew point is 66 degrees. Dew point makes it a bit muggy. The skies will clear around 10 pm.

All day the weather has been quite unstable ⚡ so I decided to Stay Home and get unpacked and get caught up on sleep. I was going to go to mom and dad’s house but decided against it when the weather was too dicey for an outdoor picnic. Sunday dinner or sitting around the living room with masks 😷 on doesn’t sound like much fun and is kind of risky to boot. Coronavirus is in hiding right now but you never know if you might have picked it up along the way somewhere, although I doubt I’d had the close personal contact for a length of time necessary to pick it up. Better safe than sorry. That said, I do realize time is limited and I should try to get out there the next time the weather is nice and sit outside and talk before it’s too late. ⌛

Speaking of procrastination I’ve decided to take a wait and see approach on Big Red. 🚘 The noise I’m hearing only is occasional and I’m not sure I want to take it back to the shop 🏪 I went to that didn’t know much about the lift kit. I’d rather take it Watkins Spring next but the thing is that it would be a lot more convenient to drop it off once I’m working back downtown again. NYC is in Stage 3 of the reopening and Upstate is Stage 4, so I can’t imagine it’s long before the buses 🚍full restart and I’m working downtown again. 🏢 I don’t think it’s safety critical but I’d rather get it properly adjusted or broken parts replaced before I’m stranded in the remote back country or I chew up other expensive hardware.

I am planning to stay in town for the Fourth of July 🎆 just because I just was out camping for ten days and I expect the back country to be crowded with most of the developed campgrounds operating at limited capacity. ⛺ I guess I could tent camp somewhere locally in the back country but for now that’s not on the agenda.

Later in July I’ll probably take my formal vacation. 😎 The one where I’m not writing memos and reports 📝 and taking calls all day long. 📞 Where cell service is non essential. This year I’m thinking the Tug Hill Plateau and Western Adirondacks and Saint Lawrence County but nothing is set in stone. I might also take a long weekend up to the Potholers and Piseco-Powley Road but I’ll have to enter from the north end as the Fulton County section of the road is closed.

Tonight will be scattered showers and thunderstorms before 2am, then a slight chance of showers between 2am and 3am. Patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 64 degrees at 3am. Four degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 66 at 9pm. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation 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 light rain by the early hours of the morning. It was humid. It got down to 70 degrees. The record low of 44 occurred back in 1981.

Tonight will have a First Quarter 🌓 Moon with 59% illuminated. At 9 PM, the moon was in the south-southwest (207°) at an altitude of 41° from the horizon, some 226,288 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by December 17^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Buck 🦌 Moon is on Saturday, July 4. The darkest hour is at 12:59 am, followed by dawn at 4:46 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:21 am in the east-northeast (57°) and last for 3 minutes and 28 seconds. Sunrise is 26 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:04 am with sun in the east-northeast (64°). Tonight will have 8 hours and 43 minutes of darkness, an increase of 32 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of showers between 8am and 10am, then scattered showers and thunderstorms after 10am. Some of the storms could produce small hail and heavy rain. Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy 🌧, with a high of 79 degrees at 3pm. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 21st. Maximum dew point of 65 at 11am. Light northwest wind becoming north 5 to 9 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 87 degrees. The record high of 96 was set in 1944.

In four weeks on July 26 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (297°) at 8:21 pm,🌄 which is 15 minutes and 24 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had hot, sunny, patches of fog and temperatures between 87 and 60 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 83 and 62 degrees. The record high of 96 degrees was set back in 1963.