America is a country that eagerly hands out get-out-of-jail-free cards to the rich and powerful, and rubber bullets, tear gas, and jail sentences to the rest. The protesters on the street this weekend were trying to change that.
Today’s sunrise was at 5:19 am. The next time the sun will rise later then today 🌄 is in 27 days on Sunday, June 28.
The average high for today is 74 degrees. 🌡 The next time it will be on average cooler then today is in 104 days on Sunday, September 13 when the average temperature will be 73 degrees.
The highest point for the sun today will be 69.5° from the horizon at 12:54 pm. 🌞 The next time the sun will be lower in the sky mid-day is in 40 days on Saturday, July 11.
Today has 15 hours and 58 minutes of daylight. ⏳ The next time the day will be shorter then today is in 39 days on Friday, July 10.
Today’s sunset will be at 8:26 pm. The next time the sun will set earlier then today 🌆 is in 51 days on Wednesday, July 22.
The average low for today is 52 degrees. 🌡 The next night it will be on average cooler then tonight is in 108 days on Thursday, September 17 when the average temperature will be 51 degrees.
It was very green walking at Schodack Island State Park compared to walking mid-winter.
Taken on Saturday May 30, 2020 at Schodack Island State Park.
After fighting some pretty strong winds, a severe thunderstorm threat, and some heavy rain, I finally made it to Troy. I was running a little late, so I decided not to paddle into Downtown Troy.
Taken on Saturday May 7, 2011 at Kayak the Hudson.Good morning! Happy June 🍹and Happy Monday ! Dairy month and Pride Month. I’ll have to hang up my rainbow 🌈 flag when I camp. Three weeks to Average High is 80 🏖. Mostly sunny and 46 degrees in Delmar. Calm wind. A pretty nice morning.
Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 67 degrees at 4pm. Seven degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 9th. Light and variable wind becoming northwest 6 to 11 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 21 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 81 degrees. The record high of 94 was set in 1918.
Definitely going to be a nice day for working outside. 😎 After my morning walk 🚶 I’ll clock in 🕒 and take the laptop out back and enjoy the nice sun. ☀ Midday I’ll go down to the library to work and then maybe after lunch, 🍔 out to Five Rivers to work and then walk and bird 🐦 watch after five.
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:54 pm with sun having an altitude of 69.5° from the due south horizon (-1.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.2 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:45 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (295°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (302°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:27 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 24 seconds with dusk around 9:00 pm, which is 47 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the south-southeast (166°) at an altitude of 42° from the horizon, 226,405 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:45 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 62 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 6 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 15 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 49 degrees at 4am. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 23rd. Northwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 49 degrees. The record low of 39 occurred back in 1971.
Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, a chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 82. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 57 at 9am. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 74. Maximum dew point of 47 at 6am. Typical average high for the weekend is 75 degrees.
I am probably going to go up to Speculator at 5 AM on Thursday morning, ☕ work from there Thursday and Friday, get some beach time and fishing 🎣 in over the weekend. That gives me three nights camping ⛺ in that site with the good cellphone reception for work on Thursday and Friday. Not sure if I’ll bring my kayak, it might be good for fishing but it’s a pain to load and unload. I still want to get to Schoharie but depending on how Coronavirus goes maybe in a few weeks the Mine Kill pool will open 🏊 or maybe thats too optimistic based on the beliefs of the politicians.
As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Average High is 80 🏖 when the sun will be setting at 8:36 pm with dusk at 9:11 pm. On that day in 2019, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 80 and 55 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 80 degrees. We hit a record high of 95 back in 1954.
In North America, 60 Hz is the standard of alternating current. It was a rather nasty compromise between frequencies, chosen as a “sweet spot” between:
Airplanes traditionally use to 400 Hz power, as it saves quite a bit on weight for their electrical motors and transformers. Likewise, traditional automotive alternators generate power in the 400 Hz range, before going through a bridge rectifier to convert 3-phase AC output to direct current. But transferring 400 Hz power, or for that matter boosting and bucking high-current DC can be difficult and prone to electronic failure compared to traditional mains frequency transformers.
But increasingly, we are seeing more uses of high frequency alternating current and direct current, especially in consumer devices. Most modern electronics are powered by switch-mode power supplies, which use high-frequency transformers (as high as 1,000,000 Hz) to safely step down voltage in an isolated fashion. More motors today are driven using inverters, which similarly create a higher-frequency current to provide more power with loss copper and less losses. Controlling the frequency of the current, allows motors to be precisely controlled in their speed, it’s more efficient and accurate then simply chopping off part of the sine wave using thyristor as was done in the olden days to control motor speed.
