Day: September 30, 2018💾

Well good bye my old friend, September. It seemed like you ended before you began. It wasn’t a terrible month but a pretty busy one with work and travel. From a rather rainy first weekend camping outside of Spectulator in Perkins Clearing to heading out to Madison County for the week, then to Schoharie County for a weekend Utsaythana Mountain and the John Boroughs site, then an overnight in the wilderness. Then it was out to North Syracuse, with some brief intermissions of hiking along the Old Erie Canal and exploring the fields and fauna of Green Lakes State Park.

The days have gotten noticably shorter. It seems like we are going to start out October rather wet and gray, but I don’t mind. I actually like how fast time has come and gone, as it means we are getting closer to my November trip when I can enjoy some quiet and relaxation in the wilderness. Cooler days, crisp blue skies will be upon us shortly.. They leaves will reach peak color, then fall, leaving a stark landscape of crisp blues and browns.

Good afternoon! Cloudy with rain showers around and about 59 degrees in North Syracuse. 🌦 There is a south-southwest breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 47 degrees. The next few days are expected to be rathre cloudy, and damp with the skies not expected to clear out until  Wednesday around 8 am.

This afternoon will have isolated showers. Cloudy 🌦, with a high of 60 degrees at 3pm. Six degrees below normal. Maximum dew point of 50 at 5pm. Southwest wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had light drizzle in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 54 degrees. The record high of 88 was set in 1905. Not a real nice day for sure.

The sun will set at 6:46 pm with dusk around 7:15 pm, which is one minute and 47 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for rain ☁ and 58 degrees. The dew point will be 50 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 11 hours and 45 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 55 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have showers likely, mainly after 2am. Cloudy , with a low of 51 degrees at 6am. Six degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 52 at 2am. Southeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2017, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 39 degrees. The record low of 28 occurred back in 1993.

I am glad that I have sound back and my headphones are working well with the laptop and the USB-to-Audio DAC. 🎧 I tried a better set of headphones with it and the sound quality is pretty good. I haven’t tried it in Windows, but I assume it should work out of the box. It’s not like a regularly — or even ever boot windows, because I can do everything that I need in Linux. Everytime I open Windows it’s trying to sell me stuff — like anti-virus protection or additional software but because I don’t ever use it I don’t really need those kind of things. All of it is free to use in Linux, which is always nice.

Last night I went for a nice little walk along Onondoga Lake around sunset. 🏞 It was a nice walk back there.

Looking ahead, there are 5 weeks until Daylight Savings Time Ends 🛥️ when the sun will be setting at 4:51 pm with dusk at 5:21 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2017, we had partly cloudy skies and temperatures between 50 and 33 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 53 degrees. We hit a record high of 76 back in 1994.

Observation:

Today is the last day for visiting Moose River Plains for the year unless your car is equipped with tire chains or is a four-wheel drive. It’s the law.