Good evening! Partly cloudy and 64 degrees at the Perkins Clearing. 🌃 There is a southwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 55 degrees. A pretty nice evening to be up in the Adirondacks.

It is nice to be up north camping ⛺ but don’t get me wrong, it was still very much so a working day. I might of set up camp at the same end of the day but for most of the day I was actually quite busy. But I plan to work from camp tomorrow and heavierhave a quiet weekend, probably just hiking from camp to fishing and swimming holes. 🏊 That said by Sunday the high is only going to be around 70 and if I move to a different campsite come Monday highs will only be in the sixties.

It was a long trip north. 🚙 Traffic seemed a bit heavier with the lock down ending 🔓 and the fact I left about a half hour later as I didn’t need to get a campsite before work. I’ve been staying up too late lately and tonight is no exception although there is no reason for me to get up early tomorrow morning and even less for Saturday. Yes I have to clock in a nine but I can still be cooking breakfast 🍳 while I boot the laptop and clock in. All the wires and power is run for the morning, setting up should be a breeze.

With the wind this afternoon 🍃 I ended up working from my truck at the Speculator Library. I found it hard to hear client calls 📞 by the lake and it looks bad if they could hear waves cashing in the background. It wasn’t super hot today and while it was pleasant working down by the lake I wanted to have unrestricted internet so I could watch YouTube in a picture in pictures window while I worked. 💻

Believe it or not the bugs 🐜 are worse now than a two weeks ago over Memorial Day Weekend. Only black flies then but now the horse flies are out as are some mosquitoes. The screen tent 🎪 helps a lot if I’m careful not to let them in but even after dark the hammock ain’t that great.

That said by 9 pm the worst of the bugs were done 🐜 and I had a big ol fire around ten once the wind died🔥. Stayed up another two hours, partly next to the fire and partially in the hammock. Too many clouds ☁ to get a good view of the full moon 🌕 or see the land all lit in moonlight.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 57 degrees at 4am. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around June 15th. Maximum dew point of 57 at 6am. Southwest wind around 5 mph. In 2019, we had light rain in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 55 degrees. The record low of 39 occurred back in 1990.

Tonight will have a Full 🌝 Moon with 99% illuminated. At 11 PM, the moon was in the south-southeast (158°) at an altitude of 24° from the horizon, some 230,582 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 November 26^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Strawberry 🍓 Moon is on Friday, June 5. The darkest hour is at 12:57 am, followed by dawn at 4:44 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:19 am in the east-northeast (57°) and last for 3 minutes and 29 seconds. Sunrise is 23 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:02 am with sun in the east-northeast (65°). Tonight will have 8 hours and 42 minutes of darkness, a decrease of one minute and 5 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of showers between 10am and 11am, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Partly sunny , with a high of 79 degrees at 3pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 17th. Maximum dew point of 60 at 8am. Southwest wind 3 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, which became light rain by afternoon. The high last year was 83 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1925.

In four weeks on July 2 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (303°) at 8:42 pm,🌄 which is 7 minutes and 49 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 84 and 65 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 82 and 60 degrees. The record high of 98 degrees was set back in 1966.