A humid morning with the ubiquitous Catskills mist evaporating off the mountains. A high of 90F with multifarious clouds, a gentle breeze and hot in the sun. A milk glass sky at dusk with cerulean brush strokes like someone painted them on. A sultry Labor Day.
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A high of 79F with a gentle breeze and the same pillowy cloud as yesterday with brief flashes of sun. Butternut squash forms an orderly queue.
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Humid and overcast with a high of 75F and gentle breeze. Muggy. September begins under thick, pillowy cloud.
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Partly cloudy with rain showers and a cool breeze in the trees. A high of 75F. Chanterelles decorate the forest like jewels.
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Dark and gloomy for most of the day with a high of 75F and very humid. Intermittent rain showers flooding roads and filling reservoirs over their brim. Soggy.
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A rainy, soggy morning with a brief interlude of warming sun around midday with brief periods of sunshine, returning to torrential rain and thunderstorms late afternoon. A high of 80F.
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A dull, foggy, humid start rising to an 87F high by late afternoon with blazing sun. Hordes of post-rain mushrooms stage a revolution on the forest floor.
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A high of 81F and overcast with brief flashes of sunshine and afternoon thunder storms.
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A high of 85F: breezy, hazy cloud, periods of blazing sun. High summer.
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Early morning sun barely breaking through thick fog. Overcast and humid with periods of break out sun, a torrential afternoon shower, and a high of 83F. The Catskills is a rain forest, consisting of a innumerable number of creeks, streams and rivers in a world that is running out of fresh water.
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Humid with a high of 87F with a mix of sun and clouds with afternoon thunder storms clearing up by evening.
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A foggy start to the day and a high of 90F and humid with cloud sailing through a hazy sky like apparitions.
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After a week of torrential rain, a day of blazing sun. A high of about 90F on the mountain tops.
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Rain early morning with a high of 86F with strong sun and billowing, cotton wool clouds. More rain afternoon and evening.
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Humid and muggy, mosquitoes, hazy clouds, afternoon rain showers and a high of 79F. More overnight rain made the ground soggy. It’s a country dog’s life.
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After a 71F, rainy, humid, overcast morning a late blooming day rising to a high of 82F and dry at 5pm. Update: more rain later on.
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A high of 81F, humid with a light breeze and mostly overcast with the sun blazing the odd gap in the rippling cloud.
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A high of 77F, humid and overcast. Creeks still flowing well. Mushrooms popping like gems under the hemlocks.
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A high of 79F and clear skies with only wisps of cloud by evening. A cool end to the week.
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A high of 81F with billowing cloud and hazy sunshine. Garlic hanging in the shade.
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A high of 81F, overcast and humid with brief interludes of sunshine. Fields of wild thyme feed the honeybees.
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A 76F high, overcast, soggy and humid with more rain showers.
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A high of 78F, humid and sweaty with continuous rain showers.
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Muggy and damp: torrential rain all day with a high of 74F.
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A high of 78F and soggy with intermittent rain showers and brief periods of sunshine.
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78F and sunny with hazy clouds and a cooling breeze.
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88F, humid and breezeless, with brilliant sunshine. A sultry day.
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Scattered dark clouds and passing rain showers. A high of 86F, humid and sticky.
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Hot and humid, with multifarious cloud cover and late afternoon thunder. A high of 88F.
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Another scorcher, humid and sweaty with a high of 94F. Much cooler in the woods.
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Another sweltering day with a high of 94F that cooled off to a balmy 79F with a stiff breeze waving the trees and scattered showers. Steamy.
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A 94F scorcher, humid, sticky. Hottest day of the year so far. Time to spend a few hours in a creek.
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A high of 84F, hot, sunny with clouds of cotton wool sailing high overhead.
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81F and mostly sunny, the wild roses have migrated from the road into our 3-acre field, specifically into a patch that we never mow because it’s too rocky. We’ve stopped mowing half the field to help out our new bees and getting a riot of color from the new wild flowers.
Summer Solstice has arrived, the longest day of the year and the shortest night, when the northern hemisphere is tilted as far north as it will go as it orbits the sun. After today, it will begin to swing backwards again until it’s the southern hemisphere’s turn to get all the light.
It’s time to light a big fire, hold hands and drink some vodka like the Swedes do. Over in England, they’ve been frolicking around some very old stones all day.
Go to CNN to find out about all the different celebrations happening on this day all over the world.
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An 87F scorcher with hazy cloud and cool in the shade.
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A high of 72F, bright with wispy cloud and hot in the sun.
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A high of 70F with brief periods of sunshine.
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A 72F high and mostly overcast with high winds scattering clumps of trees over fields, paths and roads. Down on the forest floor one type of large, gilled mushroom wildly proliferates.
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Overcast and humid with a high of 69F with early morning rain continuing sporadically until the afternoon. Sweaty.
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An early rising scorcher, with a high of 82F, cooling quickly under cloud cover by afternoon.
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Another overcast and humid day with a high of 69F.
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A high of 76F and overcast with thick, milky cloud. Humid. Sultry.
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Bright despite being overcast with a cool high of 68F.
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A chilly, windy morning with intermittent cold showers, overcast and humid. A high of 61F. And overnight low of 48F. A little hop backward for spring.
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A soggy morning at 55F with trees sprinkling overnight rain into the cool breeze. Flashes of sun through the clouds in the afternoon for a high of 64F.
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An overcast morning at 60F with a chilly breeze and hazy horizon, rising to a 65F high with brief interludes of afternoon sun and intermittent light rain showers.
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A foggy, dewy, humid morning trawls into the afternoon for a high of 80F and a double shot of humidity. Steamy.
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Early morning fog lingers on the peaks, but otherwise blazing sunshine, rolling cloud and a high of 85F.
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Humid, gloomy with thunder waiting in the wings all day and a high of 72F.
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A warm sunny morning with a gentle breeze and a high of 83F. Feels hotter. Hop bines reach towards the sky.
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A sunny morning and a scorching day with a high of 87F. Clear night sky to watch a full moon rise.
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Humid and soggy with yesterday’s all-day rain. Another foggy morning. A high of 77F with clouds becoming sparse by afternoon.
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Another scorcher: 85F with blazing sunshine.
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A high of 87F with hazy skies. A scorcher.
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A high of 80F with hazy cloud and bright sunshine. Balmy.
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