Good evening! Partly clear and 70 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. The dew point is 58 degrees. 🌃 Another quite pleasant mid summer evening with the crickets 🦗 singing their song. 🎶

Called the forest service today 🌲 to confirm that camping 🏕 was still open after the earlier Coronavirus closure. It is.. Did some packing but the first half of the day I was super groggy for unknown reasons. 😴 Didn’t do the laundry 👚 as I figured do it all on Friday while I work before heading out in the evening. Assuming tomorrow evening isn’t a complete washout.

I discovered I had accidentally deleted the code that allows me to display charts 📊 and history comparisons today but if you hit refresh 🔄 that should be good now. Also uploaded a few other new things. Then it was a busy afternoon at work, getting things lined up before vacation. 🏖 Went to the Town Park and worked on the blog for a bit.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌃 , with a low of 58 degrees at 3am. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around August 27th. Maximum dew point of 58 at 9pm. Light north wind. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies. It was sticky. It got down to 69 degrees. The record low of 46 occurred back in 1994.

Tonight will have a Waining Gibbous 🌖 Moon with 88% illuminated. The moon will rise at 10:08 pm. The darkest hour is at 1:02 am, followed by dawn at 5:22 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:54 am in the east-northeast (66°) and last for 3 minutes and 9 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 3 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:33 am with sun in the east-northeast (73°). Tonight will have 9 hours and 45 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 20 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have isolated showers, then scattered showers and thunderstorms after noon. Partly sunny 🌦, with a high of 76 degrees at 3pm. Six degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 5th. Maximum dew point of 63 at 6pm. Light and variable wind becoming east around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became rain by afternoon. It was very sticky. The high last year was 84 degrees. The record high of 102 was set in 1918.

I started packing this evening and doing some cleaning during the downtime today. 🧹 The beer 🍻 is in the fridge being chilled, I started packing clothes 👖 and the water containers are loaded in the truck. I’ll do the kayak 🛶 and propane tomorrow.

I am thinking of leaving tomorrow after work for Madison County 🐮 but I might not leave until Saturday morning early if Friday night is going to be a real washout. While I’d rather be farther west and break the trip up going out there not if it means camping the first night in the pouring rain. ⛈️ I don’t want to get soaked my first night of camping. Still thinking about the mid state route via NY 13 and Cortland.

Weather looks pretty good for next week 👌based on the at least some forecast models but others show more clouds 🌥 and rain. It’s summer and it’s a crap shoot but if the weather is too bad I’ll just stay in camp and read 📖. Nice thing about the National Forest is you can camp for up to two weeks, no permit needed.

Been drinking a lot more water 🥤 with lemon juice in it. 🍋 Much healthier than all that apple 🍏 juice I’ve been drinking lately. No sugar in it although I’m sure the acid ain’t great for the teeth but I still drink plenty of milk. 🥛Plus a whole lot less plastic trash. ♻

In four weeks on September 3 the sun will be setting in the west (281°) at 7:25 pm,🌄 which is 43 minutes and 17 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly sunny, shallow fog and temperatures between 79 and 55 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 77 and 56 degrees. The record high of 100 degrees was set back in 1953.

Looking ahead, 6:30 Sunrise 🌇 is in 5 weeks, Constitution Day 📜 is in 6 weeks, October 🛥 and Harvest Moon 🌕 is in 8 weeks, Average High is 60 🍂 is in 10 weeks, Thanksgiving 🦃 is in 16 weeks, First Sunday of Advent ✝️ is in 4 months, Saint Nicholas Day 🎅 is in 4 months, 7:15 AM Sunrise ⌛️ is in 18 weeks, Christmas Eve 🎅 is in 20 weeks, New Years Eve 🎆 is in 21 weeks, Coldest Week of the Year 🌬 is in 23 weeks, Wolf Moon 🌕 is in 25 weeks, Save the Pine Bush Turns 43 🦋 is in 6 months, Don’t Cry over Spilled Milk Day 🥛 is in 27 weeks and National Drink Wine Day 🍷 is in 28 weeks.