Good morning! Where did June go? I know Trump supporters are holding their breath, hoping that in a month massive fraud will be uncovered and Trump will be reinstated as president. I’m guessing that is probably rather unlikely. Maybe 2024. Two weeks to National Nude Day 👱. With the heat, sleeping buck naked or at least in your boxers is recommended. Partly sunny and 76 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 Calm wind. The dew point is 71 degrees. The muggy weather ends Saturday around 3 am. 😓

The air conditioning feels nice on the bus 🚍, although at this point I’m getting used to the heat and humidity. It’s hard for me to remember such a long stretch of weather with such high dew points and humidity, I feel you have to go back to around 2012 or 2013. 😰 Yesterday I went to the store and got lots of frozen fruit 🍓 and then in the evening went down to the library. It’s nice things are getting back to normal. That said, I have mixed feelings about working in the office more. 💻 The air conditioning is nice but it sure is a lot more flexible to work remotely especially from the Adirondacks.

Today will have showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 4pm. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rain. Partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 89 degrees at 1pm. Six degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 72 at 10am. Heat index values as high as 95. Light and variable wind becoming west 5 to 9 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, which became thunderstorm by afternoon. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 81 degrees. The record high of 98 was set in 1964.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:00 pm with sun having an altitude of 70.5° from the due south horizon (-0.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:55 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (296°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (303°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:38 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 27 seconds with dusk around 9:11 pm, which is 6 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:58 pm. At sunset, look out for thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 79 degrees. The dew point will be 68 degrees. There will be a southwest breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 15 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 36 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have showers and thunderstorms likely before 2am, then a slight chance of showers between 2am and 3am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3am. Mostly cloudy , with a low of 70 degrees at 3am. Nine degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 69 at 6pm. Southwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2020, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became rain by the early hours of the morning. It was humid. It got down to 64 degrees. The record low of 45 occurred back in 1978.

On this day in 1971, Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, reducing the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect. 📜 ❎ Also in 1934, The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler’s violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place. 🗡 Fortunately, we only have obnoxious rhetoric to that impact in our country today.

The weekend forecast is improving. 🌞 Saturday, a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 73. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Maximum dew point of 61 at 10am. Sunday, independence Day, a chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 76. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Monday when the holiday is observed, looking at a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 84. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Typical average high for the weekend is 83 degrees.

Do I end up going up to the Adirondacks after all? 🏕 It’s an interesting question for sure. I might end up staying up north through Tuesday then, and working up in Speculator with the forecast improving. Do I do Piseco-Powley Road? Or somewhere else. The Green Mountains are another possiblity, or I am considering tent camping somewhere up in the woods in Schoharie. There are many options for sure, although I do have to worry about sites going quickly on Friday.

Still chewing over what I am going to do about my counseling appointment next week, 👩‍⚕️ but I’m tempted to cancel it and postpone indefinitely as I want to do other things at this point. I think I’ve spent enough money on this at this point. 💸 I do have to be in town next week on Friday morning though for my eye appointment 👀 but then I can decide what I want to do for the balance of the day — I might take the afternoon off if I want to head out of town.

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until National Nude Day 👱 when the sun will be setting at 8:31 pm with dusk at 9:05 pm. On that day in 2020, we had mostly sunny skies , thunderstorm and temperatures between 84 and 67 degrees. You know, general summer weather. Etc. Typically, the high temperature is 84 degrees. We hit a record high of 99 back in 1995.

Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Three weeks to Ugly Truck Day 🚚. Sunny and 79 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 Calm wind. The dew point is 73 degrees. The muggy weather ends Sunday around 3 am. 😓

Going to be another hot and humid day. 🏖 Seems like lately we’ve been stuck in a very hot and humid pattern although it will turn cold and rainy for the Independence Day Weekend. I decided though I’m getting used to the heat now, so I will work from home today. 🏠 This way, I can run at lunchtime to the store and get groceries, and then maybe the hottest part of the day I can work in the library, now that it’s fully re-opened for mask less use. 😷 That said, it was good I was in the office yesterday. Some things are best done in on the office and there is always pressure to get more hours in the office as the pandemic winds down. 🏢

Today will be scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 4pm. Sunny and hot 🌞, with a high of 92 degrees at 1pm. Nine degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 73 at 8am. Heat index values as high as 101. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It was humid. The high last year was 83 degrees. The record high of 96 was set in 1944.

I think after mid-morning I might take a shower 🚿 then run to Wally World at lunch time to get some food and supplies. 🍔 That will give me an opportunity to cool down in the truck, and then get what I need. I like doing that mid-day as there is less crowds, and it’s faster in and out. Then I will go to the library for the balance of the day to work and maybe play on the Internet. They have brought back the desks there and the air conditioning should be nice and cool there. It was fine going downtown yesterday, but

Solar noon 🌞 is at 1:00 pm with sun having an altitude of 70.6° from the due south horizon (-0.2° vs. 6/21).  The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:55 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (296°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (303°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:38 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 28 seconds with dusk around 9:12 pm, which is 4 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:58 pm. At sunset, look ut for thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 84 degrees. The dew point will be 73 degrees. The heat index around sunset will be 78. ⛱ There will be a calm wind. Today will have 15 hours and 16 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 32 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be scattered showers and thunderstorms before 11pm, then isolated showers and thunderstorms after 2am. Partly cloudy , with a low of 72 degrees at 4am. 11 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 73 at 6pm. Light southeast wind. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2020, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 65 degrees. The record low of 47 occurred back in 1938.

On this day in 2006, in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld the U.S. Supreme Court 👩‍⚖️ rules that President George W. Bush’s plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law. That seems like such a blast form the past at this point. It is after all 15 years ago. That said, I kind of like thinking thoughts about days gone by when we lived in a simpler world.

Been playing with Sheepshaver and my old Mac OS 8 files the past few days, going back to a time in my life that now seems so long ago. 🤖 While Mac OS 8 had it’s issues, there was a lot to like about it compared to more contemporary computers. That said, the nice thing about Linux and XFCE Window Manager is things rarely if ever change, and most of the changes are improvements rather then big changes in interfaces unlike commercial operating systems like Mac OS X and Windows 11. You can say XFCE is old but it’s fast and stable.

I updated to the latest version of QGIS — 3.20 yesterday, 🗺 which is actually isn’t the official release but the release candidate. But it seems to be pretty stable. I just wish they would fix the bugs with the ARCMap Rest Services, namely the inability to automatically update the bounding box of a FeatureService and the ability to set queries. Neither seems like it would be difficult to implement, as the commands are pretty much straightforward to do manually, but it should be built in. I am tempted to download to the source code, and take a crack at it — can’t be that difficult and I’ve been learning Qt API — but I have never written a patch much less submitted it. I am sure it will get fixed eventually by somebody who knows more then I do patches it.

Independence Weekend still looks pretty unstable and cold. 🇺🇸 🎆 Saturday, a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 73. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Maximum dew point of 62 at 10am. Sunday, Independence Day, a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 78. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Monday, a chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 81. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Kind of like Memorial Day Weekend. Apparently God doesn’t like holidays this year. Typical average high for the weekend is 83 degrees.

I admit I will probably be staying in town this weekend. 🏘 Kind of sucks but so be it. I really was hoping for nicer weather. I am probably going to do the Nature Bus next weekend, and hammock up at Thacher Park again with a book. Maybe get some stuff out of the library to read, this time I’ll put the book in a plastic bag to make sure it doesn’t get wet. 📕 I probably won’t do Thompson’s Lake this time, just a little hiking and hammock time, and not in the tick filled fields of the OSI parcel.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Ugly Truck Day 🚚 when the sun will be setting at 8:27 pm with dusk at 9:00 pm. On that day in 2020, we had hot, humid, mostly sunny and temperatures between 87 and 69 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 84 degrees. We hit a record high of 97 back in 1991.

Good morning! Happy Sunday. Next Sunday is Independence Day 🇺🇸. It looks like Independence Day Weekend is trending upwards, although Saturday might still be rainy. I am thinking Piseco-Powley Road but I could change my mind. But first, it’s going to be hot.

This morning is partly cloudy and 78 degrees, here in Delmar. ⛅ And rising quickly. There is a south-southeast breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 71 degrees. The muggy weather ends Wednesday around 7 pm. 😓 Already pretty hot and sticky, it was pretty though sleeping last night, and I only expect it to get warmer as the day progresses.

It’s been a long while since we’ve had such oppressive humidity, 😅 I would say it’s been a few years since we’ve had such a warm spell. Lots of heat in recent years, but relatively few days with dew points in the 70s in Albany area.

Yesterday was a nice day up at Thacher Park, Thompson’s Lake and Five Rivers, 😅 but I tell you by the end of day it was real humid. Although I guess there isn’t much you can do about. I am glad I brought my portable battery backup, as I could use my phone all day for whatever. Worked out well.

Today will be mostly sunny and hot 🌞, with a high of 91 degrees at 2pm. Nine degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 71 at 9am. Heat index values as high as 95. South wind 8 to 13 mph. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. It was humid. The high last year was 72 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1941.

This afternoon I am going to head out to my parents house. 🎣 I thought about going to out to Partridge Run to fish but with the heat there isn’t going to be a lot of fish biting I don’t think. I might go to Lawson’s Lake. My parents said I could spend the night in my truck, which hopefully with the fan will be cooler then at home.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:59 pm with sun having an altitude of 70.7° from the due south horizon (-0.1° vs. 6/21). The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:55 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (296°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (304°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:38 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 27 seconds with dusk around 9:12 pm, which is earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:58 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 85 degrees. The dew point will be 68 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 9 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 17 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 24 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 72 degrees at 5am. 11 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 70 at 1am. South wind 6 to 9 mph. In 2020, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became haze by the early hours of the morning. It was sticky. It got down to 66 degrees. The record low of 43 occurred back in 1970. That ain’t going to be good for sleep, but then again, neither was last night.

On this day in 1985, U.S. Route 66 is officially removed from the United States Highway System. You could no longer get you’re kicks on Route 66 because everybody was taking I-40 and I-44 through the heartland of America. 🛣 Times changed, although I bet 35 years later, they had wished they had kept the old designation on various state and county highways for tourist purposes — indeed some states have started signing Historic Route 66, through tourist traps and old routings of the US Highway.

As previously noted, next Sunday is Independence Day 🇺🇸 when the sun will be setting at 8:36 pm with dusk at 9:11 pm. Already will have lost an minute in the evening. On that day in 2020, we had hot, humid, partly sunny, patches of fog and temperatures between 89 and 65 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 83 degrees. We hit a record high of 104 back in 1911.

Good morning! Yeah, it’s Friday! Thank God, it’s been a long week, especially since it’s such a pain without the express bus 🚍 in the evenings. Three weeks to Last Sunset After 8:30 PM 🌆. Mostly sunny and 65 degrees in Delmar, NY. 😎 Calm wind. The dew point is 52 degrees. One more cool day before the sweltering weather of next week.

A nice morning, but I didn’t get as early of a start as I probably should have. 😴 I had some trouble with a contact lens last night 👀 and my eyes were kind of irritated but I got up and going late. But the pancakes 🥞 and coffee helped ☕ but based on the late hour, I decided to take a nature walk around the Swift Wetland Preserve 🐸 rather then go for a longer hike out around the High School like I do most mornings. It was kind of a neat hike though, watching a cat bird and weasel duke it out, probably over some eggs in the Cat Bird’s nest. 🐿

It was a quiet day yesterday in the office 🏢 and I didn’t mind it much. It was kind of busy preparing a project but my office is still downstairs while the unit upstairs that I supervise, so with the split shift with remote work 💻 part time it’s really quiet. 🤫 I do like being in the office part time. But alas the pandemic is over 😷 👾 💉 and it won’t be long before I’m back in the office a lot more. I went down to the park and read 📖 until nine o’clock and it was pretty dark out. 🦇 Saw a lot of bats which is good because their populations have been so decimated by the White Nose Infection and they eat a shit ton of bugs.

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 81 degrees at 3pm. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 23rd. Maximum dew point of 55 at 5pm. South wind 3 to 8 mph. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies. The high last year was 87 degrees. The record high of 95 was set in 1898.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:59 pm with sun having an altitude of 70.8° from the due south horizon (-0.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:55 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (297°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (304°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:38 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 27 seconds with dusk around 9:12 pm, which is 4 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:58 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 75 degrees. The dew point will be 57 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 18 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 17 seconds over yesterday.

This afternoon I have my counseling session 👨🏻‍⚕️ and I am really not looking forward to it, as I realize that I am not ready to face some hard truth, but it’s scheduled and on the calendar 🗓 and I have to attend. I’m doing it for a better tomorrow no matter how unpleasant it is as I confront thoughts 💭 I don’t want to confront but I really need to. I’ve done my homework 📝 and I’m an adult so I’ll get it done. I’m at a point where I need to continue on, like it or not. It’s for a better tomorrow I tell myself. Change is good.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 64 degrees at 3am. Four degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 64 at 5am. South wind around 7 mph. In 2020, we had light rain in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 63 degrees. The record low of 39 occurred back in 1979.

On this day in 1998, in Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional. ❎ Congress can not give the President the power to strike appropriations that it has granted, despite it being the appropriator. New York City challenged the decision after President Clinton knocked off a few of it’s line item appropriations added by a local congressman.

Tomorrow will have a slight chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 83 degrees at 2pm. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 28th. Maximum dew point of 69 at 11am. South wind 9 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies. The high last year was 85 degrees. The record high of 99 was set in 1952.

Looking ahead to Sunday, partly sunny and hot, with a high near 91. South wind 8 to 10 mph. Maximum dew point of 70 at 9am. Typical average high for the weekend is 82 degrees. It’s going to be really hot come Sunday . 😰

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Last Sunset After 8:30 PM 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 8:30 pm with dusk at 9:04 pm. On that day in 2020, we had rain and temperatures between 80 and 65 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 84 degrees. We hit a record high of 97 back in 1900.