Good morning! Today 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️. Two weeks to Last Day of Session 🏛. Maybe there is hope. Looking forward summer and getting out of town. But not this weekend. I noticed that there is still three weekends after this weekend in June so I’ll still have a chance to get out at least once in June. Hopefully once it warms up and the water isn’t so cold and the black flies are done. 🏊 The Mine Kill pool opens in two and half weeks on June 22nd.🏖 That could be a fun weekend, hiking in the Catskills, swimming, fishing, and camping up at Burnt-Rossman.

Partly cloudy and 61 degrees at the Elsmere. NY. ☁ There is a south breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 54 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 2 pm. It was a pretty cloudy day but it seems like we’ve had some more clearing. Maybe it will be a day that is kind of gray with haze in the sky then a real cloudy and dark day, but I brought my umbrella — ran upstairs for it –which ensures no rain today.☔

Today will have a chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 78 degrees at 3pm. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 14th. Maximum dew point of 62 at 4pm. South wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 64 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1925.

The sun will set at 8:29 pm with dusk around 9:04 pm, which is 41 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look out for thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 72 degrees. The dew point will be 62 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 11 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and one second over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 7pm and 1am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 64 degrees at 3am. 10 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 62 at 8pm. South wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 48 degrees. The record low of 38 occurred back in 1971.

I decided against getting a USB flashlight that I could charge in my truck, although it looks like there are lots of options. 🔦 I really have quite a bit of flashlights, and those LED flashlight batteries last quite a long time. I really should switch over to rechargable batteries though — I some mains have chargers around — and it looks like they make buck-converter based USB chargers or even 12 volt that I could use for easy plugging into my truck. Still haven’t decided on the hammock. Maybe tonight — as I sure would like to have it if I go camping next weekend, especially if I do end up going up to that site up in Perkins Clearing where I was on Labor Day last year.💤

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Last Day of Session 🏛 when the sun will be setting at 8:36 pm with dusk at 9:11 pm. Almost the longest day of the year — that Friday is the first day of summer. On that day in 2018, we had humid, mostly sunny and temperatures between 83 and 64 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 79 degrees. We hit a record high of 94 back in 1995.

This evening I’m hoping to get out for my evening walk, but it all depends on the timing of the thunderstorms.⛈ I expect in two weeks I’ll be getting home earlier much more regularly. I really haven’t spent much time at the park after work, 📗 because I’ve either been at work or it’s been cold and rainy in the evening. 🏞