Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Four weeks to Primary Day 🗳️. I wonder if I got my absentee ballot application? I’ll have to get home on Wednesday evening to find out. Running low on food, clothes and supplies. I will probably vote absentee with the coronavirus crisis as it’s just easier and 90 percent of the time I vote absentee at any rate.

Partly sunny and 64 degrees at the Perkins Clearing. 😎 Calm wind. The dew point is 61 degrees. Going to be a hot day and the first muggy day of the summer. June is just around the corner as is summer. I am hoping the beaches and pools will reopen. 🏊 Some of the news lately is encouraging 📰 but a lot depends on what the politicians decide. I’m still hoping Mine Kill among others will reopen come summer.

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 84 degrees at 2pm. 12 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 62 at 5pm. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon. Going to be a hot day, but cooler here in the Adirondacks then back in the city. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 86 degrees. The record high of 94 was set in 2010. There was a dusting of snow in 1953.❄

This morning was kind of a stumble ☕ when I couldn’t find my car keys 🔑 with my truck locked 🔒 and then my griddle. 🍳 I was tired 😴 after sitting out in the sun and all the craziness that was Monday at work and wasn’t careful where I put things away before bed. Probably a few beers with dinner 🍻 didn’t help but at least I wasn’t hung over this morning. Sigh. I did find the keys and griddle after a few minutes of panic.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:56 pm with sun having an altitude of 67.7° from the due south horizon (-2.2° 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 7:45 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 8:28 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 25 seconds with dusk around 9:01 pm, which is 56 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the west (272°) at an altitude of 33° from the horizon, 234,980 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:46 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 76 degrees. The dew point will be 64 degrees. There will be a south-southwest breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 4 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 38 seconds over yesterday.

I do wish I had a fan with me. 🍃 I do have the 12 volt fan but I don’t have an extension cord for 12 volt power. I could bring a small 120 volt fan but I’m not sure if it’s efficient or I should build a 12 volt extension cord.

Tonight will have patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 60 degrees at 5am. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around June 27th. Maximum dew point of 64 at 8pm. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. Muggy evening! In 2019, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 55 degrees. The record low of 30 occurred back in 1969.

After the heat the next few days, cool this weekend with temperatures running 9 degrees below normal but otherwise sunny. 😃 Saturday, a chance of showers before 8am. Partly sunny, with a high near 69. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 55 at 6am. Sunday, sunny, with a high near 60. Typical average high for the weekend is 73 degrees. I will probably stay in town this weekend, I need to rest up at home and save some money after my busy Memorial Day Weekend adventures.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Primary Day 🗳️ when the sun will be setting at 8:42 pm with dusk at 9:18 pm. Later here then back in Albany. On that day in 2019, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 84 and 55 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 80 degrees. We hit a record high of 96 back in 1888.