June 10, 2019 Night

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Good evening! Rain and 67 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a south-southeast breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 62 degrees. For a while it was really pouring this evening. Seems like we will get a good inch or two out of this storm. I’m sure the farmers will love that. 🚜 The skies will clear tomorrow around noontime.

I picked up Big Red and he has had his oil changed and tires rotated. 🚘 It needed to be done, not a big deal, fairly convient with the buses downtown. Did not get soaked walking up Wolf Road as the heaviest rain held off until I got home. Made some pasta for dinner, been feeling a bit congested with a migraine again this evening. I think I’m allergic to Mondays. 😧I probably should have ridden the exercise bike or worked on other projects but I didn’t feel that great.

Tonight will have showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 11pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Steady temperature around 66. Southeast wind around 6 mph becoming calm after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 55 degrees. The record low of 36 occurred back in 1980.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous Moon 🌔 with 70% illuminated. The moon will set at 2:10 am. The 🌕 is on Sunday night with a partly cloudy then chance of showers late. The sun will rise at 5:17 am with the first light at 4:42 am, which is 9 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 8 hours and 44 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 41 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have showers likely before 11am. Cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing 🌞, with a high of 72 degrees at 5pm. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 26th. Maximum dew point of 59 at 6am. Northwest wind 7 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Should be pleasant day by afternoon but blustery. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter 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 78 degrees. The record high of 94 was set in 1947.

Tomorrow is the work picnic 🍔 assuming I’m not stuck in the office until late. 🏢 It might be a nice night for the picnic but I do expect a long day tomorrow with Green Light 🚦 expected to pass the assembly tomorrow. Free hot dogs and beer always are good. I’ll walk back and catch the 13 to the 18 at Lark and go home rather than driving. 🚙 I discovered when my parents were in the hospital that usually the 18 and 13 are scheduled for easy transfers on Lark all day long. Sucks to have to back downtown but that’s the best way to transfer.

Cool but fairly sunny for the last weekend of Spring 2019.☀ Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 74. Maximum dew point of 55 at 4pm. Sunday, a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 75. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Maximum dew point of 59 at 4pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 78 degrees.

By the following weekend, school 🚸 will be done for the kiddies, and most of the pools and beaches will be open for swimming 🏊. Getting out of town for this weekend doesn’t seem promising but there are many things that I can do around town including fishing and kayaking. 🎣 It’s the third Saturday of June. I expect late nights on Thursday and maybe Saturday so I don’t know how I’d fine time to get out of town this weekend. But it’s good to save money 💵 as bills have proven tighter this month than expected.

I got the battery pack 🔋 that I had mom order for me on Amazon. It’s charging now. This week I’m going to wire an always on socket inside my truck specifically for keeping that charged along with hooking up the shunt and meter to the solar panel so I can monitor how much electricity is actually getting produced. I also want to hook up that other wire for the second accessory battery so it’s protected by the low voltage disconnected ⚡ which is important while camping or when we have many cloudy days or an equipment malfunction.

In four weeks on July 8 the sun will be setting at 8:34 pm,🌄 which is 2 minutes and 15 seconds later then tonight. The long Independence Day Weekend will be history by then but it will be followed by my vacation two weeks later. In 2018 on that day, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 86 and 56 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 82 and 61 degrees. The record high of 100 degrees was set back in 1936.

Looking ahead, Latest Sunset 🌆 is in 2 weeks, July 🏊🏿 is in 3 weeks, Cow Appreciation Day 🐂 is in 5 weeks, Last Sunset After 8 PM 🌆 is in 9 weeks, Labor Day 👨‍🏭 is in 12 weeks and Columbus Day 🛥️ is in 17 weeks.

East Canada Creek

June 10, 2019 Morning

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Good morning! Monday’s come back around again. I expect a busy week this week and next. Two weeks to the Latest Sunset of the Year, which is a few days after the first day of summer 🌆. Partly cloudy and 65 degrees in Albany, NY. ⛅ There is a south-southeast breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 47 degrees.

Big Red is at the shop getting his oil changed and tires rotated. 🛢I drive so few miles, especially over the past winter, and with that synthetic oil, the last time the oil was changed on Red was either late August or early September. And I still had life left on the oil monitoring system, although I do like to do it a bit early, and honestly that oil been sitting in the truck for like 10 months now, getting heated and abused climbing up and down mountains and on dirty roads. Plus the tires needed to be rotated. I’d like to avoid replacing the tires and doing an alignment until at least next year — 2020.🚗

Today will have showers likely, mainly after 5pm. Mostly cloudy 🌞, with a high of 75 degrees at 3pm. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 6th. I’d rather drive straight home.Maximum dew point of 56 at 6pm. South wind 7 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter 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 78 degrees. The record high of 96 was set in 2008.

I am really hoping the showers hold off, 🌧because I don’t want to be walking up to Wolf Road to pick up my truck in the pouring rain from the oil change. I thought about going there mid-day, but then I would have to catch a bus there, get my truck, park it somewhere, and then catch a bus downtown.

The sun will set at 8:32 pm with dusk around 9:07 pm, which is 34 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain showers 🌧 and temperatures around 71 degrees. The dew point will be 60 degrees. Probably won’t be sitting out back tonight. There will be a southeast breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 15 minutes of daytime, an increase of 44 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain, with thunderstorms also possible after 10pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. 🌧 Low of 62 degrees at 5am. Seven degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 61 at 9pm. 🏖️ A tad bit of mugginess tonight with the rain coming? Southeast wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 55 degrees. The record low of 36 occurred back in 1980.

Probably when I get home with my truck, I’ll ride the exercise bike, 🚲 as it will be too wet to go out for my walk. Tomorrow will be a late night at work, followed by the work picnic, so I won’t have much of a chance to walk tomorrow, except maybe down to the bus stop. I’ll probably take the bus or ask a colleague for a ride home, as I hate parking in that tight parking lot, and I might want to have a drink or two, and I don’t drink any alcohol if I plan to drive anymore.🍺 It’s just a rule, because I seem to have enough trouble with aggressive drivers and everything else going on road.

I am continuing to have some problems with the bathroom sink drain. 🚽 It was moving well then got stuck again today. I put some more drain cleaner in it this morning and it’s moving again. After it drained out, I dumped some extra in it. I might try removing the trap next, if I have more problems. Probably all the damn hair from shaving, and the plumbing has always been a weak spot in my run-down apartment. Hoping I won’t have to call the landlord about that, although he’s pretty good about fixing things.🛠

On this day in 1964, United States Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the bill’s passage. After they “broke” the air conditioning on a muggy Washington DC heat wave, and made people sweat out the heat.✊ Sometimes you just got to sweat it out for progress to make things move forward.

I really doubt I will get out of town this weekend, but the following weekend, depending on work schedule and weather, I **might**  (emphasis on the uncertainty) take a long weekend up to the Potholers/Lily Lake/Little Falls. I ordered more wire (yes, I know), to make the connection between the second accessory battery and the low voltage disconnect, 🔌 then also hook up the other USB charger and shunt for the panel meter. I swear, that will be the final wiring project for my truck. I’m literally running of places to run wires. But everything should be a lot more stable for camp power.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Latest Sunset 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 8:37 pm with dusk at 9:12 pm. On that day in 2018, we had rain and temperatures between 76 and 61 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 80 degrees. We hit a record high of 96 back in 1943.

Flow in Summer Stream