Good evening! Cloudy, humid and 67 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. The dew point is 63 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 8 pm. One more day of showers and clouds than hot and sunny. But then clouds for Friday.

So June is done and July is around the corner come morning. 🏊 It seems like it’s going so fast and do oddly with the pandemic and working remotely. Be winter again before you know it. I wonder if I will be working for working from home all this month or if things will gradually get back to working downtown. If not I’ll have to see if I can do another working trip – camping and working remotely. I see that the camping areas in Central NY are now open as they are letting people people into Vermont so the Green Mountain National Forest is another possibility. 🗻 I guess I’m glad time is going by quickly ⏳ it’s such an odd summer with all the Coronavirus closures to saw nothing of Piseco-Powley Road closed in the south end, making my favorite summer swimming hole 🏊 that much farther away. I wish things could return that’s unlikely to happen anytime soon. Faster time means that I’ll be closer to owning land 🐮 but it also means much of the world and family and friends 👪 of today will be quickly fading away. Time last forever before its gone. 👴 Every time I look in the mirror my own hair is getting grayer but I do believe that the best is yet to come in my life. Those North Idaho channels I follow on Facebook and YouTube remind me there is a much wilder world out there. 🐺

I went for my evening walk 🚶 and it was a pleasant night. Now I’m sitting out back watching a YouTube videos under the beautiful moon lit sky. 🎑 I spend several hours at the library uploading and creating content for the blog. 📖 I also got through the Cabin Porn book which turned out to be more of a picture book then anything else but it still was a interesting read. I’ve ordered some more library books 📚, who knows when they’ll arrive. I think I should keep looking for good books as I will want lots of good reads come summer vacation in a few weeks. I bit achy this evening but I think it’s the weather. I got to try and get more steps in, it’s difficult without the express bus 🚍 and the library to walk to regularly.

Tonight will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm, then a slight chance of showers. Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 63 degrees at 3am. Three degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 63 at 10pm. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 60 degrees. The record low of 45 occurred back in 1978.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon with 80% illuminated. At 10 PM, the moon was in the south (191°) at an altitude of 33° from the horizon, some 227,716 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by December 20^th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Buck 🦌 Moon is on Saturday, July 4. The darkest hour is at 1:00 am, followed by dawn at 4:47 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:22 am in the east-northeast (57°) and last for 3 minutes and 27 seconds. Sunrise is 30 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:05 am with sun in the east-northeast (64°). Tonight will have 8 hours and 44 minutes of darkness, an increase of 39 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers before 11am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 11am and 3pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 3pm. Some of the storms could produce small hail and heavy rain. Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy 🌧, with a high of 81 degrees at 3pm. Typical for Tomorrow. Maximum dew point of 64 at 10am. Light northwest wind. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 85 degrees. The record high of 99 was set in 1913.

It was a pretty quiet day at work today 😴 so I was able to spend some time studying the code for the blog and fixing if so it would work properly with the iPad and Kindle browsers. 🐛 I had racked my brain over that for the past few days all while trying to optimize loading speed while not reducing photo quality or having to create additional files 📂.It’s a tricky balancing act and I’m sort of a novice at Javascript.

If you look at the left side of the blog 👈 you will notice I’ve quietly added some new content along with lists 📃 of suggested camping sites in the Adirondacks and lists peaks. People really like lists of things – I think it’s silly 😋 but I get it’s a good reference and things I put on the sidebar tends to trend a lot in the search engines. 🔎

It looks like Friday doesn’t look all that great ☁ but Independence Day looks pretty good so I might do some hiking or maybe paddling and fishing 🎣. I am thinking of not going far this weekend, 🎇 although my plans could change – if it means back country camping.

I might take off a week from Monday and do a three day weekend at Piseco Powley Road. ⛺ I would like to see the road after its been rebuilt from the flooding even if the south end isn’t fully rebuilt yet. It will be odd to see Powley Bridge without the historic bridge. I’m thinking of going up on the Thursday before and working Thursday and Friday from Speculator although nothing is currently set in stone.

In four weeks on July 28 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (297°) at 8:19 pm,🌄 which is 17 minutes and 18 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had hot, humid, but mostly sunny weather with a thunderstorm and temperatures between 90 and 71 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 82 and 62 degrees. The record high of 99 degrees was set back in 1929.

Looking ahead, Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 18 weeks.

Good morning! Where did June go? Cloudy and 66 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a north-northwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 64 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 7 pm.

I woke up much too early this morning 😴 fearing that I had overslept. After traveling and adjusting the alarm ⏰ times on my clock lately, things were all screwed up and when I first looked at my clock I thought it was a quarter before nine, rather than a quarter before six. 🌅 But who would know, it’s such a dark and gray morning.

Not expecting a real nice Tuesday but that’s fine, 💼 I’m working from home today and I have all the supplies I need so I don’t have to go anywhere today. 🏡 Hoping though later it will be nice enough for my evening walk 🚶.

Today will have a chance of showers before 11am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 11am and 3pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 3pm. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 77 degrees at 2pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 13th. Maximum dew point of 65 at 9am. North wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning with some clearing in the 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). 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 7 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the south (178°) at an altitude of 34° from the horizon, 227,672 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:58 pm. At sunset, look for thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 72 degrees. The dew point will be 64 degrees. There will be a north-northwest breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 15 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 37 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm, then a slight chance of showers. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 63 degrees at 4am. Three degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 64 at 6pm. Northwest wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 60 degrees. The record low of 45 occurred back in 1978.

So if I have Friday off I’ll probably spend the day hiking and fishing 🎣 and I’m going to see about possibly going out to my parents house for the postponed Sunday dinner due to the bad weather last weekend. 🍣 It would be nice to sit out back and catch up with them.

I’m thinking of poking around some of the dirt roads at Partridge Run to see if I still hear that occasionally clunking noise in the truck – it’s not particularly noticeable around town and I don’t want to spend money on something that isn’t going to cause problems in the near future. 🚘 I’m not sure if it’s either a new noise or I’ve gotten overly sensitive. I get so paranoid at times.

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.

Looking ahead, there are 18 weeks until Election Day 2020 🗳️ when the sun will be setting at 4:45 pm with dusk at 5:14 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2019, we had partly sunny, rain showers and temperatures between 53 and 30 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 53 degrees. We hit a record high of 75 back in 1990.