August 16, 2019 Night

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Good evening! Cloudy, humid and 70 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 67 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 4 pm.

I got some books from the library 📚 and I’m ready for four days up north, enjoying the potholers, doing some fishing and relaxing. I’m glad driving up tomorrow I won’t have to deal with the traffic and it should be a nice quiet extended weekend away from the heat.

Tonight will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 66 degrees at 6am. Six degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 68 at 12am. South wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2018, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It was very sticky. It got down to 69 degrees. The record low of 40 occurred back in 1979.

Tonight will have a Waning Gibbous Moon 🌖 with 93% illuminated. The moon will set at 7:51 am. The Last Quarter Moon is on Thursday night with a chance of showers. The Harvest Moon 🌝 is in 4 weeks. The sun will rise at 6:03 am with the first light at 5:33 am, which is one minute and 4 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 10 hours and 9 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 35 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 83 degrees at 4pm. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around July 26th. Maximum dew point of 72 at 2pm. South wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. It was sticky. The high last year was 86 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1913.

In four weeks on September 13 the sun will be setting at 7:08 pm,🌄 which is 46 minutes and 48 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had humid, partly cloudy, mist and temperatures between 83 and 68 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 73 and 53 degrees. The record high of 92 degrees was set back in 1948.

Looking ahead, Labor Day Weekend Begins 👨‍🏭 is in 2 weeks and Friday the 13th 👿 is in 4 weeks.

Trees Along Hitchens Pond

Today’s Almanac for Friday August 16

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Today’s Almanac

Night before dawn is 5 hours and 33 minutes,
Dawn starts at 5:33 am and runs for 30 minutes,
Sunrise is at 6:03 am which is 5 hours and 56 minutes before noon,
High noon, the transit of the sun, is at 12:59 pm,
From twelve noon to the sunset at 7:55 pm is 7 hours and 55 minutes,
Dusk lasts for 29 minutes concluding at 8:25 pm,
Leaving 3 hours and 34 minutes until midnight.

Bog River Open Up A Little Bit

Trump’s large union crowd at Shell was given the option of not showing up — and not getting paid | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Trump’s large union crowd at Shell was given the option of not showing up — and not getting paid | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The choice for thousands of union workers at Royal Dutch Shell’s petrochemical plant in Beaver County was to either spend Tuesday standing in a giant hall waiting for President Donald Trump to speak, or to take the day off with no pay.

“Your attendance is not mandatory,” read the rules that Shell sent to union leaders a day ahead of the visit to the $6 billion construction site. But only those that showed up at 7 a.m., scanned their cards, and prepared to stand for hours — through lunch but without lunch — would be paid.

“NO SCAN, NO PAY,” the rules said.

Those that decided to sit out the event would have an excused absence, the company said, and would not qualify for overtime pay on Friday. The company has a 56-hour workweek with 16 hours of overtime. That means those workers who attended Mr. Trump’s speech and showed up for work on Friday meeting the overtime threshold are being paid at a rate of time and a half, while those that didn’t go to hear the president are being paid the regular rate, despite the fact that both groups did not do work on the site on Tuesday.

NPR

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Greenland Says It’s ‘Not For Sale’ After Reports That Trump Wants To Buy It : NPR

President Trump may have been joking about wanting to buy Greenland, if he said it, but officials there want him to know: The island isn't for sale.

Aaja Chemnitz Larsen, a Greenlandic politician, told Here & Now that she was "not surprised" by media reports that the U.S. president was interested in purchasing the massive, ice-covered island.

"It sounds a little bit like a joke because Greenland is not for sale," she said.