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December 12, 2016 8 AM Update

Good morning, round two! That snow is remarkably slick, as experience shows walking down to the bus stop. Nearly slip and fell a couple times on the walk down there. Then again the soles are getting warn down on my boots. I waterproofed the boots, hopefully they won’t smell like persistent organic compounds all day. So far the bus stop hasn’t been shoveled out but I assume it will melt by mid day. I ended up standing in the gas station parking lot and somebody with serious boots stayed right at the stop and flagged the bus down, and I walked in the road.

The snow has stopped and we are now above freezing with temperatures aroundΒ 34 degrees in Delmar. There is a south breeze at 9 mph. Cloudy now and while we might get a few rain showers, eventually the skies will clear around sunset. The snow will be quickly gone.

The sun will set at 4:22 pm with dusk around 4:54 pm, which is 10 seconds later than yesterday. Today will have 9 hours and 5 minutes of daylight, a decrease of 37 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy, with a low of 27 degrees at 6am.Β A fairly mild evening after the snow, which I expect will be mostly gone by then. Five degrees above normal. West wind 8 to 15 mph. With that wind it might be a bit cold, but I don’t expect to miss my evening walk. In 2015, it got down to 43 degrees with periods of rain. The record low of -6 occurred back in 1988.

That January holiday is rapid approaching, with only fiveΒ weeks until Martin Luther King Day when the sun will be setting at 4:49 pm with dusk at 5:20 pm. On that day in 2016, we had rain, snow and temperatures between 40 and 29 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 30 degrees. We hit a record high of 62 back in 1995. I might go camping during that long weekend. Depends on the weather.

Today in 1991, the Russian federation breaks off from the USSR,Β essentially meaning the end of the Soviet Union. The era of communism was no longer to be.

I will be posting the interactive Google Map of the 160 communities in New York State that have Local Area Unemployment Statistics generated for them on a monthly basis,Β later on today. This map is pretty neat as you can click on any municipality (town, city, or village) population and find out the unadjusted monthly unemployment rate going back a year, along with the change over the past year and last year’s average.

March 10, 2016 Night

Good evening! Currently some drizzle and 57 degrees with a 5 mph north-northeast wind. There is heavy rain everywhere but Albany. It’s nearly 11 PM and my windows are still open. I may close them before morning though as the mercury is expected to drop into the forties by morning, aka a few degrees above the average high for mid-March.

I skipped my evening walk, as I thought it could pour at any minute. I did go down to the library for a while and upload the January 2016 unemployment rate map that I am featuring this evening on the blog. I also figured walking down to the express bus stop got me close to where I need to be on my daily walking goals.

I watched the PBS special, Peter, Paul and Mary 50 years together. Kind of tragic when you think about the death of Mary Travers and all their music that I listened to them as a kid. Then I started watching some more of Gods1Marine bushcraft videos. Ever since I got that wireless keyboard, I much more like watching Internet videos that I’ve downloaded.

Tonight look for times of rain and drizzle, mainly before 3am. Patchy fog before midnight. Low around 45. Northwest wind 6 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. That’s about 21 degrees above normal.

Tonight will have 12 hours and 14 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over last night. Tomorrow the sun will rise at 6:11 am with the first light at 5:43 am, which is 1 minutes and 43 seconds earlier then today. Next Wednesday, for the first time this year we will have more daylight then daylight.

Earlier tonight we had a Waxing Cresent Moon with 13% illuminated. It set around 7:29 pm. Tomorrow the moon will be up until 8:19 pm. The First Quarter Moon is next Thursday and the March’s Full Worm Moon is on March 22nd.

Friday will be mostly cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 54. Northwest wind 13 to 15 mph. That’s about 12 degrees above normal. The record high of 70 degrees was set back in 1977. Still pretty nice, what you would expect for the second week of April rather than the second week of March. Followed by amazing weekend.

The average high in four weeks on Friday April 8th is 55 degrees, and the record for that date is 87 degrees was set back in 2010.

The mild weather was nice today and the rain will greatly reduce the fire risk, despite the warm and sunny conditions expected for the weekend.

All and all I think it was a good Thursday. Sleep well! Tomorrow is Friday. Plus we lose an hour this weekend with the coming time change.