Good morning! What day is it? A Beautiful Hump Day, of course. Four weeks to Latest Sunset 🌆. Mostly sunny and 77 degrees at the Perkins Clearing. Calm wind. ☀ The dew point is 64 degrees.

Final day up in the Adirondacks for a while. 🗻 I’m going to stay up in the Speculator area until five o’clock with my phone and laptop then head home and eventually get unpacked. My clothes are dirty, my coolers are pretty bare and out of ice. While I had to work Memorial Day I managed to get a six day camping trip out of it by working from camp during the pandemic. I’m sure it’s been a lot cooler up here then back home.

Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 85 degrees at 4pm. 12 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 65 at 9am. South wind 3 to 7 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 81 degrees. The record high of 94 was set in 1914.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:56 pm with sun having an altitude of 67.9° from the due south horizon (-2° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:46 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 8:29 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 25 seconds with dusk around 9:02 pm, which is 54 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the west (260°) at an altitude of 41° from the horizon, 232,318 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:47 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 76 degrees. The dew point will be 62 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 6 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 34 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 59 degrees at 6am. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around June 22nd. Maximum dew point of 62 at 8pm. Southwest wind around 6 mph. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 50 degrees. The record low of 33 occurred back in 1994.

Cool this weekend with temperatures running 9 degrees below normal but otherwise sunny. 😃 Saturday, showers likely, mainly before 8am. Partly sunny, with a high near 68. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Maximum dew point of 56 at 6am. Sunday, sunny, with a high near 61. Maximum dew point of 41 at 6am. Typical average high for the weekend is 73 degrees.

It’s going to be a nice weekend 😎 but I’ll probably stay closer to home this weekend after my fun in the Adirondacks. I’m hoping within a few weeks I’ll be able to go up to the potholers. Piseco Powley Road was starting to be repaired last autumn by the town but repairs were delayed by the pandemic. Nothing like that potholers on a hot sunny day. 🏊 That said that swimming hole down by House Pond Campsite hits the spot too and you can walk there from that campsite and not have to drive. I’m also hoping soon that Cherry Ridge Camping Area in Madison County reopens so that’s another possibility. And then maybe Mine Kill Pool. I know their is issues with life guards getting Coronavirus from CPR and possibly the bathrooms but the pools are chlorinated and safe themselves. That said, I don’t think they use mouth to mouth breathing anymore but I guess rescues could involve close contact. 🚑

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Latest Sunset 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 8:42 pm with dusk at 9:18 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy skies and temperatures between 85 and 56 degrees. Just another nice summer day, one of many to come as we all adapt to both the good and bad of the pandemic. Typically, the high temperature is 80 degrees. We hit a record high of 96 back in 1943.

Good evening. Clear and 74 degrees at the Perkins Clearing. 🌃 Light south breeze. The dew point is 62 degrees. A beautiful night, after laying in the hammock for a while looking at the stars I decided to start a small campfire 🔥 just to sit by and look at while starring up at the skies. I’ve dimmed the lights for the evening, and it’s very starry 🌟 on this final night of camping. Saw one intensely bright shooting star fall from the sky – kind of burned up with a bright flash. Made a wish and looked in disbelief that suddenly its 2020.

Tonight should be a nice night, partly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 61 degrees at 4am. 🌃 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around July 3rd. Maximum dew point of 62 at 9pm. Doesn’t feel that muggy here. But then again, I’m just hanging out by the fire and it’s a small one. Dry enough I will put it out cold before bed. A lot of dry grass around this campsite even as the green grass grows back up around it. Light south wind. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 55 degrees. The record low of 30 occurred back in 1969.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon with 18% illuminated. Nice strong moon shadow tonight too. At 9 PM, the moon was in the west (272°) at an altitude of 33° from the horizon, some 234,985 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 November 21^st. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Strawberry 🍓 Moon is on Friday, June 5. The darkest hour is at 12:56 am, followed by dawn at 4:49 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:24 am in the east-northeast (59°) and last for 3 minutes and 25 seconds. Sunrise is 42 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:06 am with sun in the east-northeast (66°). Tonight will have 8 hours and 54 minutes of darkness, a decrease of one minute and 36 seconds over last night.

A fairly quiet but busy work day from camp. ⛺ Lots of phone calls 📞 and emails ✉ sent, lots of client business done. Memos written 📝 questions 🙋 answered. Kind of like working from home only more scenic. Very quiet up here now that the holiday weekend is over, I think I saw maybe three cars all weekend.

Tomorrow after I take down camp I’ll work from the Lake Algonquin Park and Speculator Beach or library if I need more bandwidth then I can do over my phone. 😎 Maybe get a burger 🍔 or something for lunch and ice cream for the heat 🍦, possibly dip my feet in at the beach and when work is done at five, head home 🏡. Honestly, I think I’m just as productive remote working from the Adirondacks 🗻 and a whole less stressed. And by the time I get home the heat wave 🌊 should be largely broken.

Had some rain showers today ☔ and a few claps of thunder ⚡ but nothing to dramatic. One shower probably could be heard a bit on a client call 📞 but I’ll chock it up to rain on the roof – of the screen tent. By no means does the tent 🎪 block all the rain but with the tarp I used to create shade it worked well enough.

Food today 🍲 was kind what I had leftover, I packed food and clothes for a maximum of four days and I’m day five of the trip. Lunch was tuna fish salad with breakfast sausage and pasta, while dinner was creamed corn, refried beans, pasta with mayo and cheese along with breakfast sausage. 👍 A garbage plate, yes but I wanted to eat up what I had before it went bad.

Tomorrow will have patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 85 degrees at 3pm. 12 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 65 at 8am. Going to be sticky by the time I awake but this night is real pleasant. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. 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 81 degrees. The record high of 94 was set in 1914.

In four weeks on June 23 the sun will be setting in the northwest (304°) at 8:42 pm,🌄 which is 15 minutes and 41 seconds later then tonight. The sun doesn’t set much later then it does now – only a fifteen minute gain. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 84 and 55 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 80 and 59 degrees. The record high of 96 degrees was set back in 1888.

Tonight is the last night camping ⛺ for my Memorial Day Weekend remote working trip, but it has inspired me to do more similar adventures in the future as long as I plan places that have good cell phone reception and sun for the solar panel. Over the past five days I’ve used over 1,000 watt hours of solar power camping, mostly for my laptop and phone charger for work and some camp lighting and starting battery 🔋 topping but that’s not been a lot quite honestly compared to keeping the laptop charged for work. I’m thinking a possible weekend next in Schoharie County may be next, but that’s a few weeks off and remote work may end sooner than later and it’s back to the old dungeon office 🏢. And riding the CDTA bus 🚍 to work every day. How novel public transportation seems these days. I do kind of miss the days of yore but I like the wilder side of life too during the pandemic. Maybe if they reopen Cherry Ridge 🍒 I can camp and remote work from the wilds of Madison County and do a nice day trip down to Rogers Center on the weekend for bird 🐦 watching.

Looking ahead, Primary Day 🗳️ is in 4 weeks, Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 23 weeks and Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 23 weeks.

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.

Good evening! Partly clear and 66 degrees at the Perkins Clearing. There is a south breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 58 degrees. It was a beautiful sunset 🌇 to end the Memorial Day Weekend. Thank you all that served and gave their lives for the country.

I totally got killed by the black flies 🐜 today when I was laying back on the hammock, emailing and calling clients. It was a pleasant place to work but the black flies and the sun burnt wasn’t so much fun. Tomorrow if the heat is bareable I’ll spend more time in the screen tent 🎪.

The sun ☀ was good for part of the day and the breeze was nice so solar power worked fine for the laptop and all other things that needed a charge. I didn’t really mind working this Memorial Day as it was a beautiful weekend and maybe while a working weekend a good one. I just wish I had used more sunscreen and DEET or picardin on my legs.

While the screen tent 🎪 is good for the black flies, at times it sure is hot during the day. While occasionally a bug will sneak in and bite for the most part the black flies are very well controlled by the tent. They are starting to die down now for the night 🌃 and then maybe I’ll have a small fire if the breeze dies down and lay back in the hammock. 🔥 I am worried about how dry it is up here, so I want to keep any fire small but it would be nice to burn up the paper plates and camp trash.

Tonight will have patchy fog after 3am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 58 degrees at 4am. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around June 19th. Maximum dew point of 58 at 9pm. South wind 3 to 6 mph. In 2019, we had rain in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It became somewhat humid as the night progressed. It got down to 57 degrees. The record low of 38 occurred back in 1972.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon with 11% illuminated. At 9 PM, the moon was in the west-northwest (282°) at an altitude of 24° from the horizon, some 237,868 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 A pretty little sliver moon tonight. At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by November 22^nd. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The moon will set in the borthwest (305°) at 11:29 pm. The Strawberry 🍓 Moon is on Friday, June 5. The darkest hour is at 12:56 am, followed by dawn at 4:50 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:24 am in the east-northeast (60°) and last for 3 minutes and 25 seconds. Sunrise is 44 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:07 am with sun in the east-northeast (67°). Tonight will have 8 hours and 56 minutes of darkness, a decrease of one minute and 39 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 83 degrees at 3pm. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around July 13th. Maximum dew point of 61 at 5pm. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 86 degrees. The record high of 94 was set in 2010. There was a dusting of snow in 1953.❄

After the sunburn and black fly bites yesterday 🐜 I’m undecided if I will drive home after work tomorrow or wait until Wednesday evening and the heat breaks. I think I would prefer Wednesday but I’m running low on food and clothes to wear. And it might be ungodly hot working in the tent on Tuesday. 🔥

In four weeks it will be the second day of summer on June 22 the sun will be setting in the borthwest or northwest for that matter (304°) at 8:42 pm,🌄 which is 16 minutes and 29 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 80 and 55 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 80 and 59 degrees. The record high of 95 degrees was set back in 1954.

Looking ahead, Average High is 80 🏖 is in 4 weeks.