Good morning! Happy Sunday. Three weeks to Fathers Day 👨. Foggy, damp and 52 degrees in the Lye Brook Wilderness outside of Stratton. 🌁 There is a east breeze at 13 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 51 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 4 pm. Not a real nice day but also not a real soaker like last year and the black flies have gone away for now. 🐜Don’t you just wish there was a black fly emoji?

Yesterday I hiked back to Bourn and Stratton Pond. 🗻 Never been back to the later, it’s a fair bit more scenic than Bourn Pond I would argue, as it’s right below Stratton Mountain. Nice hike but especially the Lye Brook Trail between Bourn and Stratton Pond is kind of hard to follow in parts because blazing is sparse and there is some blow down. I didn’t get a really early start because I stayed up late the night before because of the black flies which disappear after dark.

Today will have a chance of showers. Cloudy ☁, with a high of 54 degrees at 12pm. 19 degrees below normal. Maximum dew point of 51 at 10am. East wind around 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies. The high last year was 71 degrees. The record high of 94 was set in 1914.

I’ve decided to I’ll head home in a little bit as it’s rather wet and gray. 🌁 Solar panel is still putting out a dozen or so watts, enough to maintain the accessory battery charge although I did start the truck up briefly as I hadn’t run it in 36 hours and wanted to make sure I didn’t wear down the starting battery from opening and closing doors, causing the computer under the hood to boot up and use a little bit of voltage. I have both the starting battery and the accessory battery hooked to voltage meters so I can monitor it but I know sometimes a surface charge can be misleading.

The sun will set at 8:20 pm with dusk around 8:54 pm, which is 54 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for possible rain showers ☁ and 50 degrees. There will be a east breeze at 11 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 3 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 33 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have scattered showers, mainly before 11pm. Cloudy ☁, with a low of 47 degrees at 1am. Four degrees below normal. East wind 6 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2017, we had mostly cloudy skies. It got down to 60 degrees. The record low of 33 occurred back in 1994.

As you might guess, cell service is pretty spotty around here🔕 but it’s kind of nice to be off the phone network with the constant pings and pongs of email and social media. There are a few places I can get a weak signal but honestly I’m fine with being a bit disconnected this weekend. 🐸 That said I kind of have to check my email from time to time for work emails. 🐣

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Fathers Day 👨 when the sun will be setting at 8:33 pm with dusk at 9:09 pm. On that day in 2017, we had mostly cloudy skies and temperatures between 81 and 64 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 79 degrees. We hit a record high of 94 back in 1994.