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September 20, 2019 Morning
Good morning! Yeah, it’s Friday! Six weeks to November 🥧. It will be here before you know it. Mostly sunny and 47 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind.
Today will have patchy dense fog before 9am. Otherwise, sunny 🌞, with a high of 76 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 7th. Maximum dew point of 49 at 6pm. Calm wind becoming northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 72 degrees. The record high of 90 was set in 1946.
The sun will set at 6:57 pm with dusk around 7:25 pm, which is one minute and 48 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 72 degrees. The dew point will be 49 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 12 hours and 16 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 54 degrees at 6am. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 11th. Maximum dew point of 53 at 11pm. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm after midnight. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 65 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1973.
Tomorrow will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 80 degrees at 3pm. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around August 23rd. Maximum dew point of 60 at 6pm. Calm wind. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 71 degrees. The record high of 95 was set in 1895.
Looking ahead to Sunday, sunny, with a high near 85. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. 🌞Maximum dew point of 61 at 8pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 70 degrees.
Tonight I’ll load the kayak on my truck 🚤and load my gear for camping ⛺ as I have to get an early start for the Pine Bush Birds the Word Hike tomorrow. 🐦 That hike starts at eight at the Discovery Center. I’m debating between paddling in the Mohawk River tomorrow near Moss Island or Stewart Landing tomorrow then the potholers on Sunday. I forgot to get propane tank filled but I’m hopeful I will have enough for tomorrow, otherwise it will be a campfire breakfast. 🛢️ I think the tank still has a pound or two left in it, but it definitely should be filled before vacation.
So I got these black boots 👢 because that’s what they had in my size and I figured that they wouldn’t show the mud and muck so much. But now that I think about it some more, I’m sure the salt will show up. The other advantage is they will polish well with the same black shoe paint I use with my dress shoes. Not sure if I really care for the style but I’m sure with the salt and all the hiking I do they’ll probably only last until spring. Might look really nice with khakis for work. I don’t really care that much about style, it’s different. Change is tough.
I repotted one of the spider plants 🌾in my office that has long struggled. Maybe root rot or maybe I over fertilized it. Four out of the five plants are doing well, two of them I gave away. Hoping to pot up two or three more next year so we can have greenery in every window in our office. 🏢 Makes the bleakness of the winter much nicer.
I’m thinking 💭 about doing a side trip down to MacDowell County, WV after visiting New River Gorge. As you may know that’s where Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty started. I’ve heard it’s not changed much over the years. 🏠 I thought originally about going down to Hazard, Kentucky but I think that’s too far out of the way to just drive through and stop and grab a picture. I’d rather have an excuse to visit an area beyond just visiting a hick town.
Looking ahead, there are 6 weeks until November 🥧 when the sun will be setting at 5:48 pm with dusk at 6:18 pm. On that day in 2018, we had rain showers, mostly cloudy and temperatures between 59 and 48 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 54 degrees. We hit a record high of 78 back in 1950.
November is actually my favorite season of the year. 🦌 It’s time a before the snow is usually on the ground, but the leaves are off the trees and the skies often are quite blue. The air is crisp, the nights are cool and long. Big game season opens in the Southern Zone, Thanksgiving rolls around. 🦃 It’s the month before winter really gets underway most years.
May 5, 2019 Night
Good evening! Partly clear and 56 degrees 🌉. There is a east-southeast breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 49 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 11 am. Not a terrible evening but I decided against sitting out back after my evening walk. Should be a great evening for sleeping. 💤
Sipping on some nice cold drink of water with a hint of that cider vinegar. 🍏 I’m so glad I quit drinking alcohol. 🍻 Budwiser is so tasty now that it’s a rare treat in the wilderness. Water is so much healthier and has zero calories. And cheaper. Maybe the slight acidity is bad for the teeth but I can’t imagine it’s any worse than soda. I do get regular check ups at the dentist and I still drink a lot of milk 🐮 although not as much as I once did as milk is kind of expensive and a lot of calories.
All and all it was a pretty sucky weekend weather wise, 💦 but except for running to the store I pretty much stayed home. I did get groceries so I’m not totally out of food like yesterday when I was stuck eating cream of chicken soup 🐔 dunked with stale bread. Hey, it had to be used up and I was in a cranky mood yesterday so I wasn’t going to go shopping. I figured sticking around home saves money. As does using up what is at home before buying more.
Tonight will have a slight chance of rain before 10pm, then a slight chance of showers between 10pm and 1am. Cloudy 🌧, with a low of 49 degrees at 6am. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 21st. East wind around 6 mph becoming north after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 54 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1969.
Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent Moon 🌒 with 5% illuminated. The First Quarter Moon is on Friday night with mostly cloudy skies expected. The Flower Moon 🌝 is on Friday, May 17th. The sun will rise at 5:43 am with the first light at 5:12 am, which is one minute and 17 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 9 hours and 42 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 22 seconds over last night.
Tomorrow will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 71 degrees at 5pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 20th. Maximum dew point of 49 at 4pm. North wind 3 to 5 mph. Should be a nice day. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 65 degrees. The record high of 89 was set in 1930. There was a dusting of snow in 1994.❄
Tomorrow is another work day but with my south facing office 🏢 the sun will be nice ☀. I love the views of the Heldebergs and Catskills from my office and with all the greenery from the spider plants 🌾 its always nice. I’ll definitely walk outside to the Capitol.
Over the weekend I worked on some improvements to the blog that make it easier for me to locate old content for refeaturing and updating. After all these years of blogging it becomes hard to constant think up new things. 💭
I won the eBay auction for the hand drill 🔩 I plan to use for drilling holes in quarter inch luan plywood for building LED signs. Minimum bid $8, even with shipping I think I got a fair deal – certainly cheaper than buying new and much higher quality rool. I am thinking my first project will be a USA red white and blue sign for use at camp.💡 I’ll probably just run it at five volts USB power with everything in parallel. If I drive the LEDs at 15 mA I can run 30 in parallel and draw about 1/2 amp at 5 VDC or 2.5 watts.
I also ordered two more HC-05 Bluetooth modules and a USB to serial adapter 🔌 from China to replace the one I burnt up this weekend. Still haven’t paired the two together I have but I’ll figure it out eventually. I also played with the waterproof temperature sensor a bit today. I got to get it now working with the esp32 that drives my VMS display and run the wires outside so I can measure the outside temperature. ❄
I started thinking more about what life would be like without an automobile 🚘 this weekend. I’ve thought a lot about the savings but less about the costs – ride sharing fares, more bus fares, car rentals, laundromat, paid trash pickup vs hauling my own, and even having to either order online or buy from Hannaford rather than buy cheaper at Walmart. The big savings seem less than at first. Well I guess the same thing is true when I study car insurance 🚙 options – big savings don’t materialize by shopping around if you want to maintain decent coverage. The way you save big bucks is by dropping the amount of coverage you have which increases your risk especially in case of severe accident. Being that I don’t own a house nor have my money tied up in property it’s less safe from liability lawsuits so I want to have decent coverage. 💵 Plus I think it would mean a lot less nights in the wilderness.
Right now, next weekend looks pretty nice. 😎 Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 64. Maximum dew point of 46 at 6am. Sunday, a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 64. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 44 at 11am. Typical average high for the weekend is 68 degrees.
If the weekend forecast remains true, 👍 I’m still thinking about Piseco Powley Road and then Little Falls on Saturday. ⛺ Things could change before the though. I know that the gates are closed north of the Potholers but the lower part of the road will be open and hopefully won’t be too soft. Or I could consider other alternatives.
In four weeks on June 2 the sun will be setting at 8:27 pm,🌄 which is 27 minutes and 14 seconds later then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had humid, partly sunny, patches of fog and temperatures between 78 and 60 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 74 and 53 degrees. The record high of 94 degrees was set back in 1895.
Looking ahead, Mothers Day 👩 is in 1 weeks, 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ is a month away, Fathers Day 👨 is in 6 weeks, Dog Days of Summer 🌻 is in 2 months, National Nude Day 👱 is in 10 weeks, Sunset Before 7:30 PM 🌆 is in 17 weeks, Autumn 🍂 is in 20 weeks and Average High is 60 🍂 is in 23 weeks.
February 1, 2019 Morning
Good morning! Happy February! Tomorrow is the most important day of the year, Ground Hog Day! 🐻 Four weeks to March 🌨. That’s some news you can use! Partly sunny and negative one degrees in Delmar. Don’t be negative, very positive, warmer weather is in the forecast the next few days. Calm wind.There are 8.5 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at Sunday around 11 am. 🌡️
Definitely a cold morning today although the bright sun was quite pleasant. 😎 But definitely a cold start, I think it was around negative ten and it was clear that the heat downstairs was struggling to keep up.
Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 16 degrees at 3pm. 16 degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around -9 at 8am; West wind 3 to 6 mph. A year ago, we had partly cloudy in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. The high last year was 39 degrees. The record high of 65 was set in 1989. 15.0 inches of snow fell back in 1898.❄
The sun will set at 5:09 pm with dusk around 5:39 pm, which is one minute and 19 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 13 degrees. Almost toasty compared to the weather of recent. There will be a west breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 10 hours of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 23 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 1 degrees at 3am. 14 degrees below normal. Maximum wind chill around -6 at 1am; Light and variable wind. In 2018, we had cloudy in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 7 degrees. The record low of -18 occurred back in 1961.
Saturday will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 31 degrees at 4pm. One degrees below normal, which is similiar to a typical day around January 30th. South wind 5 to 8 mph becoming west in the afternoon. A year ago, we had partly cloudy in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. The high last year was 34 degrees. The record high of 53 was set in 1981. 11.9 inches of snow fell back in 2015.❄
Looking ahead to Sunday, a slight chance of rain after 1pm, mixing with snow after 4pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 36. ⛅ Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Typical average high for the weekend is 32 degrees.
Woke up around 6 AM, decided that I was cold, so I ended up turning on the electric heat in my bedroom. I normally don’t but I was kind chilly as the gas heat downstairs wasn’t letting enough upstairs.💢 Hot water, while cold at first in the bathroom worked well. I was up early enough I could have taken the express bus downtown but I decided it was too cold to walk down there.
Yesterday’s commute home wasn’t too bad. 🚗🚙🚚🚛🚌Traffic was fairly light, I made it home and heated up some burritos then went over to John Wolcott’s house for a bit in Sheridan Hollow to continue sorting his papers. I ended up watching about an hour of Mary Paly’s film about her husband Bob Paley the Knickerbocker News photographer who captured much of the news photography in Albany during the 1960s.🎥 Definitely a dramatic time in Albany, kind of interesting to be there in the same room with probably the man who did more to preserve Albany’s history during the intervening decades since then.
Big Red despite sitting for five days started right up. With the days sunshine, the solar panel fully recharged the accessory battery giving the starting battery enough kick that the engine started like it was warm at negative two degrees tonight.🔋 The accessory battery was at 12.9 volts on meter in the truck cap at six o’clock. I had minimal problems getting it out of park, it seems to be less problematic when it’s around 0 than around 20. I am definitely glad I cleaned off the panel yesterday morning.
I guess it’s been cold outside but with work, some planning on avoiding the outdoors and buses that have been close to on-time the past few days I’ve not noticed the cold.❄ Granted I’ve worn my sweater in my office and in the days it’s been pretty pleasant with the sun radiating in on the south side windows in my office. Once again my Christmas cactus has been looking a bit sick again but then it perks up. I’m starting to think it got to dried out again or maybe it’s suffering from the root disease again. 🌾I’m really not sure. I guess if it doesn’t make it, I’ll make another pot of the spider plant as that is certainly healthy.
Bought some ant bait and stuck it on the counter and on the floor. The ants previously seemed to be gone, maybe because I’ve been more aggressive at cleaning the counter but I spotted a few last evening. 🐜 None this morning though. I don’t know, hopefully this will help. I also got fabric superglue to fix my ski boots so hopefully I can enjoy some skiing on Sunday. Depends on the weather.
In the mail yesterday I got the replacement board for the headphone jack on my laptop so that should be fully fixed by the weekend so I won’t have to always carry around the external USB audio dongle. 🎧 Shouldn’t be a difficult repair and it only cost me $12 for a tested used board. I also got two more HC – 06 bluetooth modules, one which I plan to use as a dedicated communications channel between the LED lamp above my bed and the color temperature controlled LED lamp across my bedroom for better virtual sunrises and control of the light in my room.♒ I was originally going to use the built-in Bluetooth of the esp32 but I wasn’t sure how was it would be to have multiple Bluetooth connections from that one device.
Made waffles with blueberries this morning and lots of coffee. ☕ Nice and toasty by the time I got out of bed and sat at my desk looking out of the frost covered window. Waffles were good, I probably spent a good half hour just looking out at the cold. Made it in decent time to the bus stop, not too much of a wait which was good as a I left my hat and gloves in the office. 🚏
In four weeks on March 1 the sun will be setting at 5:45 pm,🌄 which is 36 minutes and 2 seconds later then today. In 2018 on that day, we had partly cloudy skies and otherwise mild conditions with some snow showers early and temperatures between 50 and 35 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 39 and 21 degrees. The record high of 66 degrees was set back in 2017.
Looking ahead, March 🌨 is a month away, Ides of March ✝ is in 6 weeks, April Fools Day 🤡 is in 2 months, May 🕊 is in 3 months, Memorial Day Weekend Starts 🏕️ is in 16 weeks, June 🍹 is in 4 months, July 🏊🏿 is in 5 months, Dog Days of Summer 🌻 is in 22 weeks and August 🌻 is in 6 months.
