Good evening! Cloudy and 60 degrees at the Perkins Clearing. ☁ There is a south-southeast breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 53 degrees. A few sprinkles here and there but no heavy rain yet. Kind of a dark and breezy nih in the woods. 💨The skies will clear Tuesday around 8 am.

A very brief rain shower ☔ made me take down the hammock and grab the rain coat but as quick as it came it stopped. I sat by the fire 🔥 for a while but decided to hang up my hammock after I leaned over and my chair snapped. I’m not surprised 😲, I knew it was about to break. I usually only get about a year out of those camp chairs unfortunately. I’ll leave the old one at Walmart for landfill disposal and pick up a new one the next time I’m there.

The wind 🍃 caught one of the candles on the ground on fire 🔥 and proceeded to start a minor grass fire. 🌾 I was able to stomp it out but I had no idea how combustible the grass was up here.

I fully expect in a few hours maybe less it will start to pour. 💦 But I have everything put away that shouldn’t get wet or would otherwise require drying when I got home. It may very well be a quite wet night but it’s been a good long weekend up north and this campsite is well drained so I expect no flooding here at camp. Probably leave fairly early tomorrow and drive home in the rain and get unpacked. 🏡 Not a big deal. Probably next weekend I’ll stay in town. The following week I’m heading down to New York for work so it will be nice to have a weekend just at home.

Tonight will have showers likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after midnight. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rain. 🌧 Low of 56 degrees at 4am. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 6th. Maximum dew point of 56 at 12am. 🏖️ South wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It was humid. It got down to 66 degrees. The record low of 38 occurred back in 2017.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent Moon 🌒 with 19% illuminated. The moon will rise at 10:05 am. The First Quarter Moon is on Wednesday night with a chance of showers then partly cloudy skies. The Harvest Moon 🌝 is on Friday, September 13th. The sun will rise at 6:22 am with the first light at 5:52 am, which is one minute and 7 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 10 hours and 50 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over last night.

Labor Day will have showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 4pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rain. 🌧 High of 66 degrees at 3pm. 11 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 30th. Maximum dew point of 60 at 1pm. 🏖️ South wind 7 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 83 degrees. The record high of 100 was set in 1953.

Today was kind of a lazy day. I reolacd the other burner in the camp stove and reglued the knob that had come loose and it seems like both burners are working good in the stove. ♨ With colder weather ahead I plan to be doing more cooking. I did go for a brief walk but I didn’t hear much squirrel activity I think due to the unstable weather. So it was spaghetti 🍝 and meatballs for dinner. At least it seems like both burners are working well on the camp stove. The bulk of the day was spent reading 📖 a book in my hammock about the mission creep of the defense department. As defense increasingly becomes the only department that politicians want to fund, its mission keeps expanding. 💣

This upcoming week I want to hook up the low voltage disconnect reset button again 🔘in case I ever need to reset the power while camping on these longer nights. Doesn’t happen raglan anymore but I hate to be plunged into darkness without an easy way to restore power to the truck cap.

In four weeks on September 29 the sun will be setting at 6:41 pm,🌄 which is 50 minutes and 47 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had mostly sunny, patches of fog and temperatures between 68 and 47 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 67 and 46 degrees. The record high of 86 degrees was set back in 1921.

Looking ahead, Autumn 🍂 is in 3 weeks, October 🛥 is a month away and Average High is 60 🍂 is in 6 weeks.