Good morning! Happy Sunday. Two weeks to Strawberry Moon. 🍓 Farm stand fresh strawberries are so much better than the frozen ones I eat all winter but they don’t last. Partly sunny and 48 degrees at the Mason Lake. ☀ There is a southeast breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. A pretty nice morning and it seems that the black flies are taking a break to an extent but it’s pretty all things said and done.

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 70 degrees at 4pm. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 19th. Southeast wind 5 to 8 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 70 degrees. The record high of 92 was set in 1964.

I am not sure if I will go down to Speculator today to go for a paddle or instead will go for a bird watching hike 🚶 🐦 from Perkins Clearing. I am thinking I could park in the sunny and open area ☀ to charge the battery 🔋 bank and the laptop. 💻

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:55 pm with sun having an altitude of 67.4° from the due south horizon (-2.6° 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 (301°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:26 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 24 seconds with dusk around 8:59 pm, which is 58 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the west-northwest (290°) at an altitude of 14° from the horizon, 240,824 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:43 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 63 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 9 mph. Today will have 15 hours and one minute of daytime, an increase of one minute and 44 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 47 degrees at 4am. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 17th. South wind 7 to 9 mph. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 46 degrees. The record low of 30 occurred back in 1956.

I have made no decision on tomorrow ⛺ if I will move to another campsite and work from there or head home after work. I will need to get ice regardless tomorrow in Speculator.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Strawberry Moon 🍓 when the sun will be setting at 8:36 pm with dusk at 9:11 pm. On that day in 2019, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 82 and 53 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 76 degrees. We hit a record high of 95 back in 1999.

I should think about getting out to Schoharie County in early June and hit up the farm stands 🍓 and do camping out there one weekend. It would be nice to swim 🏊 out at the park pool but I don’t know if it’s going to open this summer.