Good afternoon! Partly sunny and 76 degrees at the Mason Lake. There is a east breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 44 degrees. It’s not real humid but it’s hot with the sun. I think the long hair doesn’t help. At least it’s quite bug free in the tent I can wear shorts. I’d really like to get swimming and wash off some of the sweat. I’m not sure Mason Lake is very good for swimming 🏊 thought, it’s kind of mucky. Definitely not a sand lake.

I just got done with this 45 minute conference call 📞 with one of my clients. It is really kind of a working trip. The one upside is the black flies aren’t bad inside the screen tent. 🎪 I did string a tarp over the east side of the tent to cool things downs bit. Somehow with the relatively low humidity I didn’t think it would be quite so hot and sticky. Maybe because there isn’t that much shade.

This afternoon will have a slight chance of showers after 3pm. Mostly sunny 🌦, with a high of 76 degrees at 12pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 7th. Maximum dew point of 51 at 2pm. East wind 7 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became light rain by afternoon. The high last year was 72 degrees. The record high of 93 was set in 1964.

Later on I’m probably going kayaking on Mason Lake. 🚣That should be a good place to cool down for a while. The tent is nice but I kind of wish their was more shade or the black flies would be less bad an I could spend more time outside during the daylight hours. Other than that I’m going to hang back at camp, sit and read, 📖 and listen 👂 to podcasts and be glad I’m not stuck at home.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:55 pm with sun having an altitude of 67.1° from the due south horizon (-2.7° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:43 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (293°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (300°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:25 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 23 seconds with dusk around 8:58 pm, which is 59 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the west-northwest (297°) at an altitude of 4° from the horizon, 243,701 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:43 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 61 degrees. The dew point will be 48 degrees. There will be a east-southeast breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 59 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 47 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 43 degrees at 4am. Seven degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 3rd. Southeast wind 5 to 8 mph. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 52 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1963.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until the First Day of Summer 🏛 when the sun will be setting at 8:42 pm in the Central Adirondacks with dusk at 9:18 pm. On that day in 2019, we had humid weather that was mostly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 79 and 66 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 79 degrees. We hit a record high of 97 back in 1953.