Good morning! Today is Memorial Day 🇺🇸! Next Monday is June 🍹. Rain showers and 55 degrees at the Perkins Clearing. ☔ There is a south breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 47 degrees. The skies will clear around 6 pm.

Well, thank you for all those who have served and died for our country. 🇺🇸 While not everything is perfect 👌 in our country and the pandemic is scary, America is largely a free country and a I diverse and wonderful place to live. 💣Soldiers don’t decide on war, they simply implement the wars put down the politicians. 💥

Moved to the new campsite ⛺ and got set up as it started to rain ☔. Clocked in and got down to work. Kind of a cloudy and cool day but tomorrow will be hot. I will string a tarp over the screen tent to keep things cool. Hung up the hammock, I’ll probably not use it until the black flies are done for the day.

Memorial Day will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 10am. Mostly cloudy ⛅ , with a high of 72 degrees at 4pm. Typical for Memorial Day. Maximum dew point of 55 at 6pm. South wind 7 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 73 degrees. The record high of 94 was set in 1981.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:56 pm with sun having an altitude of 67.5° from the due south horizon (-2.4° 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 7:44 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (294°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (301°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:27 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 24 seconds with dusk around 9:00 pm, which is 57 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the west-northwest (282°) at an altitude of 24° from the horizon, 237,865 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:45 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 67 degrees. The dew point will be 56 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 3 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 41 seconds over yesterday.

I may stay up in the Adirondacks until Tuesday or Wednesday. ☀ This will avoid some of the heat in Albany and it’s fun working up here. But it all depends on how much sun so I can keep the laptop charged and things moving on.

Tonight will have patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 57 degrees at 5am. Seven degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around June 15th. Maximum dew point of 58 at 2am. South wind 3 to 5 mph. In 2019, we had rain in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It became somewhat humid as the night progressed. It got down to 57 degrees. The record low of 38 occurred back in 1972.

Cool next weekend with temperatures running 6 degrees below normal but otherwise sunny. 😃 Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 68. Maximum dew point of 50 at 6am. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 66. Maximum dew point of 37 at 6am. Typical average high for the weekend is 73 degrees.

It’s possible that I go to Schoharie County this weekend. 💻 I could work from there on next Monday from Duck Pond. Although who knows, it depends a lot on the weather.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Average High is 80 🏖 when the sun will be setting at 8:42 pm with dusk at 9:18 pm. On that day in 2019, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 80 and 55 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 80 degrees. We hit a record high of 95 back in 1954.