Good morning! Yeah, it’s Friday! Partly sunny with fog and 65 degrees at the Green Mountain National Forest. 🌁 Calm wind. The dew point is 62 degrees. A rather pleasant morning with a breeze on a soon to be hot old July day. Clouds might keep it cooler though.

Today will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Mostly sunny. ☀ But later on becoming cloudy 🌧, with a high of 78 degrees at 1pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 16th. Maximum dew point of 67 at 4pm. Already seeing the clouds start to push in a bit Light southeast wind increasing to 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. 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 mostly sunny skies. It became humid as the day progressed. The high last year was 89 degrees. The record high of 100 was set in 1936.

I have a few projects to work on today 📝 but I expect a fairly quiet day working from the hammock to replying to emails 📧 and taking calls 📞 from my hammock. The work laptop is charging using the solar power now, I’m sure there will be some kind of project come the afternoon to do. 💼 Probably at four o’clock. I do want to hit the swimming hole 🏊 later.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:58 pm with sun having an altitude of 69.3° from the due south horizon (-1.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:50 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (295°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (302°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:32 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 25 seconds with dusk around 9:05 pm, which is 29 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:51 pm. At sunset, look out for rain 🌧 and thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 67 degrees. The dew point will be 67 degrees. There will be a east-southeast breeze at 15 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 8 minutes of daytime, a decrease of one minute and 14 seconds over yesterday.

I think my plan for today is to work in the Green Mountains 🗻 and maybe hit the swimming hole a few times and then head home after work, assuming it’s not raining too hard for unsafe driving 🚘. It’s been a fun week but I don’t want to camp in the pouring rain 💦 which it looks like we are right on to get a direct hit from Tropical Storm Fay here in the Green Mountains. Plus I’m low on ice but I’ve eaten most of the pershibles.

Tonight will have showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. 🌧 Low of 65 degrees at 5am. Four degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 67 at 7pm. 🏖️ East wind 15 to 17 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between three quarters and one inch possible. Yeah purty wet. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It became very sticky as the night progressed. It got down to 71 degrees. The record low of 48 occurred back in 1986.

I keep finding litter 🚯 around this campsite which I keep picking up. Some people are pigs. 🐽 I know that when I camp, anything that doesn’t completely burnt gets packed out for recycling. ♻ I don’t put aluminum or glass in the fire pit and while I may burn out cans to clean them of food residue, I always clean out the fire pit and remove the cans and any unburnt plastic or similar residue. I bury my poop 💩 and I try to leave wood at the fireplace and tidy up the site before I leave. Nobody wants to see or smell your pile of poop or deal with your garbage. 🚮

On this day in 1890, Wyoming is admitted to the United States as the 44th US State. Many liberals regard that as a mistake, although it has some beautiful country out in Yellowstone and lots of grass to feed cows and oil and coal. 🗻 And in 1962, Telstar, the world’s first communication satellite is launched. 📡

Tomorrow will have showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. 🌧 High of 78 degrees at 2pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 16th. Maximum dew point of 70 at 2pm. 🏖️ Southwest wind around 6 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It became humid as the day progressed. The high last year was 86 degrees. The record high of 98 was set in 1936.

Looking ahead to Sunday, a chance of showers, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 11am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 77. Southwest wind 6 to 8 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Maximum dew point of 67 at 8am. Typical average high for the weekend is 82 degrees.

Good evening! Mostly clear and 71 degrees at the Green Mountain National Forest. There is a south breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 67 degrees. The muggy weather ends Tuesday around 11 pm. 😓

Kind of a hot day but until later in the afternoon the heat wasn’t that bad. 😰 I could always hop in the Deerfield River if it got too hot plus I had the fan blowing on me most of the day while working. Busy day at work but I did get to hit the swimming 🏊 hole a few times. Cooled off enough to have a little fire.

One of the locals mentioned that there is a place up the road that sells firewood 🔥 something I’ll have to keep in mind for future visits. I was able to cobble together enough wood for the fire plus some camp garbage I had to burn. I also had a bag of litter 🚮 I picked up, and when burning that I found a discarded butane container which I pulled out of the fire just in time.

Tonight will have isolated showers and thunderstorms before 11pm. Patchy fog after midnight. Otherwise, partly cloudy , with a low of 63 degrees at 5am. Two degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 67 at 9pm. South wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 60 degrees. The record low of 47 occurred back in 1963.

Tonight will have a Waining Gibbous 🌖 Moon with 75% illuminated. The moon will rise at 11:38 pm. The Buck 🦌 Moon is on Friday, July 24. The darkest hour is at 12:58 am, followed by dawn at 4:48 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:23 am in the east-northeast (58°) and last for 3 minutes and 25 seconds. Sunrise is 44 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:05 am with sun in the east-northeast (65°). Tonight will have 8 hours and 51 minutes of darkness, an increase of one minute and 12 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers before 2pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 2pm and 3pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 3pm. Partly sunny 🌦, with a high of 75 degrees at 2pm. Seven degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around June 6th. Maximum dew point of 67 at 1pm. Southeast wind 5 to 10 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 mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 89 degrees. The record high of 100 was set in 1936.

I think based on the latest forecast I’m going to head home 🏡 on Friday evening after work. Maybe hit the swimming hole a few times tomorrow but I don’t want to camp in the rain. And it’s likely going to be super wet here Friday night into Saturday. 💦

In four weeks on August 6 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (293°) at 8:06 pm,🌄 which is 25 minutes and 37 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had humid, mostly sunny, rain showers and temperatures between 84 and 63 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 82 and 61 degrees. The record high of 98 degrees was set back in 1900.