June 30, 2020 Night

Good evening! Cloudy, humid and 67 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. The dew point is 63 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 8 pm. One more day of showers and clouds than hot and sunny. But then clouds for Friday.

So June is done and July is around the corner come morning. 🏊 It seems like it’s going so fast and do oddly with the pandemic and working remotely. Be winter again before you know it. I wonder if I will be working for working from home all this month or if things will gradually get back to working downtown. If not I’ll have to see if I can do another working trip – camping and working remotely. I see that the camping areas in Central NY are now open as they are letting people people into Vermont so the Green Mountain National Forest is another possibility. 🗻 I guess I’m glad time is going by quickly ⏳ it’s such an odd summer with all the Coronavirus closures to saw nothing of Piseco-Powley Road closed in the south end, making my favorite summer swimming hole 🏊 that much farther away. I wish things could return that’s unlikely to happen anytime soon. Faster time means that I’ll be closer to owning land 🐮 but it also means much of the world and family and friends 👪 of today will be quickly fading away. Time last forever before its gone. 👴 Every time I look in the mirror my own hair is getting grayer but I do believe that the best is yet to come in my life. Those North Idaho channels I follow on Facebook and YouTube remind me there is a much wilder world out there. 🐺

I went for my evening walk 🚶 and it was a pleasant night. Now I’m sitting out back watching a YouTube videos under the beautiful moon lit sky. 🎑 I spend several hours at the library uploading and creating content for the blog. 📖 I also got through the Cabin Porn book which turned out to be more of a picture book then anything else but it still was a interesting read. I’ve ordered some more library books 📚, who knows when they’ll arrive. I think I should keep looking for good books as I will want lots of good reads come summer vacation in a few weeks. I bit achy this evening but I think it’s the weather. I got to try and get more steps in, it’s difficult without the express bus 🚍 and the library to walk to regularly.

Tonight will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11pm, then a slight chance of showers. Patchy fog after 2am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 63 degrees at 3am. Three degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 63 at 10pm. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2019, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 60 degrees. The record low of 45 occurred back in 1978.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon with 80% illuminated. At 10 PM, the moon was in the south (191°) at an altitude of 33° from the horizon, some 227,716 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 December 20th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Buck 🦌 Moon is on Saturday, July 4. The darkest hour is at 1:00 am, followed by dawn at 4:47 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:22 am in the east-northeast (57°) and last for 3 minutes and 27 seconds. Sunrise is 30 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:05 am with sun in the east-northeast (64°). Tonight will have 8 hours and 44 minutes of darkness, an increase of 39 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers before 11am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 11am and 3pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 3pm. Some of the storms could produce small hail and heavy rain. Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy 🌧, with a high of 81 degrees at 3pm. Typical for Tomorrow. Maximum dew point of 64 at 10am. Light northwest wind. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 85 degrees. The record high of 99 was set in 1913.

It was a pretty quiet day at work today 😴 so I was able to spend some time studying the code for the blog and fixing if so it would work properly with the iPad and Kindle browsers. 🐛 I had racked my brain over that for the past few days all while trying to optimize loading speed while not reducing photo quality or having to create additional files 📂.It’s a tricky balancing act and I’m sort of a novice at Javascript.

If you look at the left side of the blog 👈 you will notice I’ve quietly added some new content along with lists 📃 of suggested camping sites in the Adirondacks and lists peaks. People really like lists of things – I think it’s silly 😋 but I get it’s a good reference and things I put on the sidebar tends to trend a lot in the search engines. 🔎

It looks like Friday doesn’t look all that great ☁ but Independence Day looks pretty good so I might do some hiking or maybe paddling and fishing 🎣. I am thinking of not going far this weekend, 🎇 although my plans could change – if it means back country camping.

I might take off a week from Monday and do a three day weekend at Piseco Powley Road. ⛺ I would like to see the road after its been rebuilt from the flooding even if the south end isn’t fully rebuilt yet. It will be odd to see Powley Bridge without the historic bridge. I’m thinking of going up on the Thursday before and working Thursday and Friday from Speculator although nothing is currently set in stone.

In four weeks on July 28 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (297°) at 8:19 pm,🌄 which is 17 minutes and 18 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had hot, humid, but mostly sunny weather with a thunderstorm and temperatures between 90 and 71 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 82 and 62 degrees. The record high of 99 degrees was set back in 1929.

Looking ahead, Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 18 weeks.

Crossing an Unnamed Brook

The Plains vs remote camping

When I camp at Moose River Plains I often go between camping in the plains proper near the major destinations like Helldiver Pond and the Moose River, and camping somewhere more remote along the roads.

Campsite 55

Plains proper

  • Sandy soils
  • Beautiful landscape
  • Butterflies, grass land birds
  • Near destinations like Helldiver Pond, Moose River, Beaver Lake so you can walk there from camp
  • Lots of sun and blue skies for solar
  • Great view of the stars
  • Decent privacy based on the layout of the campsites at least visually
  • Sound carries in the plains, you can easily hear nearby campsites, less of a wilderness experience
  • Have to keep the noise down
  • Can feel a bit like a developed campground

Campsite on Moose River Plains road

Outlying Areas in the Plains

  • Heavy forested, kind of generic Adirondack wilderness
  • Typically heavily shaded and cooler in the summer months
  • Other campsites a 1/4 mile or further away
  • You don’t hear noise or voices from other campers
  • You can listen to music loud, shoot guns, light off fireworks into the night without bothering folks.
  • Target shooting from camp!
  • Much better privacy and feels much more wilderness like.

NPR

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country's top infectious disease expert, told members of Congress on Tuesday that although he can't predict the ultimate number of infections and deaths related to the coronavirus, "it's going to be very disturbing."

"When you have an outbreak in one part of the country, even though in other parts of the country they're doing well, they are vulnerable," he said. "We can't just focus on those areas that are having the surge. It puts the entire country at risk. We are now having 40-plus thousand new cases a day. I would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around," he told the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, which convened to discuss plans for reopening schools and work offices that have been shuttered by the deadly coronavirus pandemic.

That works

The DOT sign shop didn’t have a a SOUTH placard for the sign the drunk took out my street. So they took a NORTH sign and patched it with a S and U over the N and the R. Apparently that works.

Empire State Manufacturing Survey (overview) – FEDERAL RESERVE BANK of NEW YORK

Empire State Manufacturing Survey (overview) – FEDERAL RESERVE BANK of NEW YORK

Business activity steadied in New York State, according to firms responding to the June 2020 Empire State Manufacturing Survey. After breaching record lows in April and May, the headline general business conditions index climbed forty-eight points to -0.2. New orders were unchanged from last month and shipments inched higher. Delivery times and inventories were little changed. Employment levels edged slightly lower and the average workweek continued to decline. Input price increases picked up, and selling prices stabilized. Firms were notably more optimistic that conditions would be better in six months, with the index for future business conditions rising to its highest level in more than a decade.

National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) History 2002-2019

National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) History 2002-2019

The National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) acquires aerial imagery during the agricultural growing seasons in the contiguous U.S. A primary goal of the NAIP program is to make digital ortho photography available to governmental agencies and the public within a year of acquisition.

NAIP is administered by the USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA) through the Aerial Photography Field Office in Salt Lake City. This "leaf-on" imagery is used as a base layer for GIS programs in FSA's County Service Centers, and is used to maintain the Common Land Unit (CLU) boundaries.