Middle Settlement Lake
Nice Spring Afternoon
It was a super nice afternoon down along the Hudson River until it started to cloud back up.
Taken on Thursday May 7, 2020 at Papscanee Island Nature Preserve.Gull Lake
Gull Lake is a 3.5 mile hike from the Bear Creek Parking Area at the Wild Forest Boundary. Alternatively, with a 4x4 truck or ATV and a dry season, you can drive almost to the shoreline of the Gull Lake on a series of designated truck trails.
http://www.cnyhiking.com/GullLake.htm
http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/75310.html
North in the Valley
Hawks Rock
Hawk Rock via Appalachian Trail is a 1.9 mile heavily trafficked out and back trail located near Duncannon, Pennsylvania that features beautiful wild flowers and is rated as moderate.
In Hope of Nice Weekend Weather
Maybe I’m just desperate for a nice weather weekend, or I wanted to practice my skills for work, but I created this quick little bash script that runs on the 29 and 59 minutes of each hour, so I get the latest NOAA forecast for the weekend, hot off the presses displayed on my screen for the weekend.
#!/bin/bash
wget "https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=42.4686&lon=-73.9294&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=dwml" -O /var/tmp/forecast.xml
WEEKENDS=( Friday Saturday Sunday )
for WEEKEND in "${WEEKENDS[@]}"
do
DAY=$(xmllint /var/tmp/forecast.xml --xpath '/dwml/data/time-layout[2]/start-valid-time' | awk /$WEEKEND\"/'{print NR}')
DAY12=$(xmllint /var/tmp/forecast.xml --xpath '/dwml/data/time-layout[1]/start-valid-time' | awk /$WEEKEND\"/'{print NR}')
DAY12NIGHT=$((DAY12+1))
HIGH=$(xmllint /var/tmp/forecast.xml --xpath "/dwml/data/parameters/temperature[@type=\"maximum\"]/value[$DAY]/text()" 2>/dev/null)
LOW=$(xmllint /var/tmp/forecast.xml --xpath "/dwml/data/parameters/temperature[@type=\"minimum\"]/value[$DAY]/text()" 2> /dev/null)
DAYSUMMARY=$(xmllint /var/tmp/forecast.xml --xpath "string(/dwml/data/parameters/weather/weather-conditions[$DAY12]/@weather-summary)" 2> /dev/null)
NIGHTSUMMARY=$(xmllint /var/tmp/forecast.xml --xpath "string(/dwml/data/parameters/weather/weather-conditions[$DAY12NIGHT]/@weather-summary)" 2> /dev/null)
[[ $WEEKEND == Saturday ]] && xmllint /var/tmp/forecast.xml --xpath "/dwml/data/parameters/conditions-icon/icon-link[$DAY12]/text()" 2> /dev/null | wget -i - -O /var/tmp/wxicon.png
[[ -z $HIGH ]] || OUTPUT+="\n $WEEKEND: "
[[ -z $HIGH ]] || OUTPUT+="$DAYSUMMARY $HIGH "
[[ -z $LOW ]] || OUTPUT+="/ $NIGHTSUMMARY $LOW"
done
notify-send "Weekend Weather Update" "$OUTPUT" -t 15000 -i /var/tmp/wxicon.png