Good morning! Yeah, it’s Friday! Next Friday is Pack Rat Day 🐀. Further evidence I need a tractor with a front end loader and land in a state with few restrictions on open burning. 🔥 Two weeks until the Start of Memorial Day Weekend. Really doesn’t feel that way

Occasional rain drops and 54 degrees 💦. I wore my rain coat and took the local bus into the city ☔. They are getting more rain at the airport ✈ and even more up north. Stratford is getting soaked right now, it’s probably best not to be heading up there. ⛺ Breezy, ️16 mph breeze from the south 🌬 . The dew point is 46 degrees.

Today will have showers, with thunderstorms also possible after noon. 🌦 High of 68 degrees at 4pm. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 13th. Maximum dew point of 59 at 4pm. 🏖️ South wind around 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became thunderstorm by afternoon. The high last year was 73 degrees. The record high of 92 was set in 1970. 5.0 inches of snow fell back in 1945.❄

The sun will set at 8:05 pm with dusk around 8:37 pm, which is one minute and 5 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 62 degrees. The dew point will be 55 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 28 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 14 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have showers and thunderstorms before midnight, then a slight chance of showers between midnight and 2am. 🌧 Low of 48 degrees at 4am. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 18th. Northwest wind 8 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 49 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 2010.

I am going to play it by ear 👂 tomorrow and see what the weather looks like come the morning. I still think it might be fairly gray for the first half of the day. I might just go out for a walk to Five Rivers which might be pretty muddy. 🐸 I’m thinking once it’s nicer I’ll take more long weekends this summer in the Adirondacks.

I find myself looking at disdain every time I get one of those politicians mailers in the mail. ✉ I’m glad I don’t get involved in politics anymore. I think people often use political action as an excuse not to improve their own lives, with the thought being that one doesn’t have to be an agent for change in their own life if they tweet or post on Facebook. You can’t make the world a better place if you don’t make your own life better first. 🌎

As previously noted, next Friday is Pack Rat Day 🐀 when the sun will be setting at 8:13 pm with dusk at 8:45 pm. On that day in 2018, we had mostly cloudy and temperatures between 80 and 59 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 70 degrees. We hit a record high of 92 back in 2017.

Memorial Day Weekend is in two weeks. The 8-14 day outlook is calling for drying and warming conditions. ☀ I might see if I can get a jump start on the weekend, leaving a few hours early on that Friday but I doubt that will be possible as it’s a busy time at work. 💼