Coffee

I have to say I like cold coffee that has been sitting in the percolator pot for multiple days. Nice and strong. β˜•

East Pond

On Floodwood Road. Looked quite pretty. There is one drive-in campsite in here, along with an accessible boat dock.

Taken on Saturday August 14, 2010 at Floodwood Road.

August 26, 2020 Morning

Good morning! Happy National Dog Day 🐩! Next Wednesday is the Corn Moon πŸŒ•. Sunny and 54 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 There is a northwest breeze at 7 mph. πŸƒ. The dew point is 49 degrees.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 72 degrees at 3pm. Seven degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 16th. Maximum dew point of 49 at 7am. Northwest wind 7 to 13 mph. A year ago, we had sunny skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 78 degrees. The record high of 98 was set in 1948.

Going to be a super nice day ☺ that feels more like mid September then late autumn. That said September and autumn aren’t far away and it’s expected to that come September we will have many more nice days like today. πŸ‚

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:58 pm with sun having an altitude of 57.6Β° from the due south horizon (-13.2Β° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 3.8 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour πŸ… starts at 7:03 pm with the sun in the west (278Β°). πŸ“Έ The sunset is in the west-northwest (285Β°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:41 pm after setting for 3 minutes with dusk around 8:08 pm, which is one minute and 39 seconds earlier than yesterday. πŸŒ‡ At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous πŸŒ” Moon in the south (186Β°) at an altitude of 25Β° from the horizon, 231,074 miles away. πŸš€ The best time to look at the stars is after 8:46 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies πŸŒ„ and temperatures around 67 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 9 mph. Today will have 13 hours and 24 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 43 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly after 2am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 54 degrees at 5am. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 9th. Maximum dew point of 50 at 5am. Northwest wind 5 to 8 mph becoming calm after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 53 degrees. The record low of 41 occurred back in 1969.

Today in 1920, the 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote in federal elections.β˜‘οΈ

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. πŸ˜• Saturday, showers likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 8am. High near 79. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Maximum dew point of 70 at 2pm. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 75. Maximum dew point of 61 at 6am. Typical average high for the weekend is 78 degrees.

So no improvement on the weekend forecast β˜” but we will have another run at summer like weather on Saturday buy stormy and unsettled. I’m planning to stay in town but Sunday might be good for hiking 🚢🏻 and fishing 🎣.

Looking ahead, there are 9 weeks until Average High is 55 πŸ‚ when the sun will be setting at 5:53 pm with dusk at 6:22 pm. On that day in 2019, we had mostly cloudy and temperatures between 60 and 45 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 55 degrees. We hit a record high of 78 back in 1971.

After Dusk

244- The Revolutionary Post

244- The Revolutionary Post

8/25/20 by Roman Mars

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/111566423
Episode: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/99percentinvisible/dovetail.prxu.org/96/8bb2865a-7782-47e1-b11f-1d147d8a009f/244_The_Reolutionary_Post_pt01.mp3

Winifred Gallagher, author of How the Post Office Created America argues that the post office is not simply an inexpensive way to send a letter. The service was designed to unite a bunch of disparate towns and people under one flag, and in doing so, she believes the post office actually created the United States of America.