May 10, 2020 Night

Good evening! Cloudy and 47 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a northeast breeze at 5 mph. πŸƒ. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Wednesday around 4 am. β˜ƒοΈ

Kind of a quiet day, stayed home did some map work 🌎 and then went for a walk this evening in the Pine Bush. I saw a lot of wildlife including a buck, doe, fawn, goose, red bellied woodpecker, cat bird and a goose. I was surprised to see a goose there I thought they preferred to be by water. Walked a while after dark then came home.

Kind of a cold and gray day but it was nice to get away for a bit and hike somewhere alone πŸ‘€ were there was a ton of wildlife. Pine Bush off hour can be a great place to explore except for the highway noise. 🐝

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly after 4am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 41 degrees at 4am. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 27th. Northeast wind around 5 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 47 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 2010.

Tonight will have a Waining Gibbous πŸŒ– Moon with 83% illuminated. The moon will rise at 11:56 pm. The Flower 🌷 Moon is on Monday, May 25. The darkest hour is at 12:53 am, followed by dawn at 5:07 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:39 am in the east-northeast (65Β°) and last for 3 minutes and 12 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 9 seconds earlier than yesterday. πŸŒ„ The golden hour ends at 6:19 am with sun in the east-northeast (71Β°). Tonight will have 9 hours and 30 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 12 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have showers likely, with thunderstorms also possible after noon. Some of the storms could produce small hail and gusty winds. Yucky ducky in a trucky. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 57 degrees at 1pm. 11 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 13th. South wind around 7 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning, which became light rain by afternoon. It became somewhat humid as the day progressed. The high last year was 65 degrees. The record high of 90 was set in 1911. 0.5 inches of snow fell back in 1907.❄

Kind of a bummer that the weather doesn’t look really good for tomorrow πŸ˜” but the forecast looks good for mid week and the weekend might turn out quite nice. But still few signs of things greening up in Schoharie County, they actually got snow there over the weekend although it’s mostly gone at this point.

In four weeks on June 7 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (303Β°) at 8:31 pm,πŸŒ„ which is 25 minutes and 9 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 82 and 53 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 76 and 54 degrees. The record high of 95 degrees was set back in 1999.

Looking ahead, Pack Rat Day πŸ€ is in 1 weeks, Strawberry Moon πŸŒ• is in 4 weeks and Fathers Day πŸ‘¨ is in 5 weeks.

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ¦…Only 12 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!πŸ¦…πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

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I wear blaze orange a lot…

I wear blaze orange a lot…

I think a lot of people worry about getting shot in the woods in October or November although I think that fear is overblown and you shouldn’t be afraid of the woods or hunters out there just trying to harvest their deer. Give them their due so you don’t spook their deer or turkey but don’t be afraid.

But wearing blaze orange is a good idea even if your boy hunting. I can tell you when I’m hunting blaze orange sticks out well to the human eye even if it is largely invisible to other animals falling in the same desaturated color of the sky. Getting shot is bad enough with bones and muscles broken but a lifetime of lead poisoning can be pretty horrifying.

Blaze orange is also safer to wear while walking along a road or highway making yourself much more visible to passing cars and other vehicles. If you fall or are injured, wearing blaze orange also makes it easier for emergency help to find and rescue you.

There are so many options for bright colored blaze orange closes. Unless you are in a stand turkey hunting, or maybe bow hunting, I suggest you wear blaze orange.