Percentage of the US Counties that is Rural

This map shows how much of each county is delineated urban or rural.

The Census Bureau’s urban areas represent densely developed territory, and encompass residential, commercial, and other non-residential urban land uses. The Census Bureau delineates urban areas after each decennial census by applying specified criteria to decennial census and other data.

The Census Bureau identifies two types of urban areas:

- Urbanized Areas (UAs) of 50,000 or more people;
- Urban Clusters (UCs) of at least 2,500 and less than 50,000 people.
β€œRural” encompasses all population, housing, and territory not included within an urban area.

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Americans Lack Information To Stay Out Of Disaster’s Path : NPR

None of the landlords, real estate agents, sellers, appraisers, bankers or home inspectors the families interacted with explained the risk of flooding or wildfires, because no one had to do so. Only about half of the states require that information about flood risk be disclosed to homebuyers, and just one state requires that such information be given to tenants. Only two Western states require disclosure of wildfire risk.

October 19, 2020 12 PM Update

Average Temperatures

This table shows the average high, median, and low temperatures for the next year. Previous year values are shown in parenthesis. The sun angle is the maximum sun angle at solar noon for the day.

Jones Hill and Labrador Pond

Week Date Sun Angle High Median Low
1 October 28 34.1Β° 55 (60) 46 (53) 36 (45)
3 November 10 30.1Β° 50 (47) 42 (40) 33 (33)
4 November 22 27.1Β° 45 (48) 38 (41) 30 (33)
6 December 4 25.1Β° 40 (36) 33 (28) 26 (19)
8 December 17 24Β° 35 (30) 28 (28) 21 (26)
11 January 8 25.2Β° 30 (39) 22 (30) 15 (21)
17 February 15 34.8Β° 35 (28) 26 (16) 17 (4)
19 March 4 41.1Β° 40 (50) 31 (44) 22 (38)
21 March 17 46.2Β° 45 (51) 35 (43) 26 (35)
22 March 28 50.5Β° 50 (51) 40 (41) 30 (30)
24 April 7 54.3Β° 55 (65) 44 (54) 34 (42)
25 April 18 58.3Β° 60 (49) 49 (42) 38 (34)
27 May 1 62.6Β° 65 (61) 54 (55) 43 (49)
29 May 16 66.6Β° 70 (73) 58 (64) 47 (55)
32 June 3 69.7Β° 75 (81) 64 (70) 53 (58)
35 June 22 70.8Β° 80 (95) 69 (83) 59 (70)
43 August 18 60.4Β° 80 (87) 70 (77) 60 (67)
46 September 8 52.9Β° 75 (73) 65 (63) 55 (52)
48 September 21 48Β° 70 (84) 60 (67) 50 (50)
49 October 2 43.7Β° 65 (75) 55 (62) 45 (49)
51 October 15 38.7Β° 60 (62) 50 (51) 40 (39)

Shots – Health News : NPR

U.S. Coronavirus Cases Climb Toward A New Peak : Shots – Health News : NPR

With coronavirus outbreaks picking up speed in dozens of states, the U.S. is now climbing steadily toward a new peak in cases that may soon rival the summer surge — when the country hit more than 60,000 infections on average a day for weeks in a row.

On Friday, U.S. cases surged higher than they had since late July, hitting nearly 70,000 in one day. The seven-day daily average is now more than 56,000 cases a day. New cases have gone up by 30% from two weeks ago.

October 19, 2020 Morning

Good morning! Monday’s come back around again. Six weeks to Cyber Monday πŸ›οΈ and Beaver Moon πŸŒ•. Buy more plastic shit that makes lots of black smoke when you burn it. πŸ”₯ Very cloudy and gray but a mild 54 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁️ Maybe rain β˜” soon? I should look There is a south breeze at 6 mph. πŸƒ. The dew point is 50 degrees. The skies will clear around 11 am.

Being so dark and cloudy this morning 🌫️ I feel foggy myself, 🀯 but maybe it’s just a bad case of the Mondays. I have two online meetings today πŸ“Ή that I’ll do down at the library, making sure my laptops are charging πŸ”‹ now as I doubt πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ there will be much solar power. Not sure if we are going to get rain in Delmar, but who knows. It’s probably better to be home then in woods.

Today will have a slight chance of showers after 3pm. Mostly cloudy 🌞, with a high of 63 degrees at 2pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around October 9th. Maximum dew point of 52 at 12pm. South wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 59 degrees. The record high of 79 was set in 1963. There was a dusting of snow in 1992.❄

Looks like CentralΒ New York is pretty wet this morning, 🌧 so I guess it’s good to be back home. It would be bad driving home in the rain after work, and working from some random library in Central NY when it was pouring rain all day.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:41 pm with sun having an altitude of 37.2Β° from the due south horizon (-33.6Β° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 7.9 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour πŸ… starts at 5:29 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (250Β°). πŸ“Έ The sunset is in the west-southwest (257Β°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 6:07 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 58 seconds with dusk around 6:34 pm, which is one minute and 34 seconds earlier than yesterday. πŸŒ‡ At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent πŸŒ’ Moon in the southwest (224Β°) at an altitude of 14Β° from the horizon, 228,701 miles away. πŸš€ The best time to look at the stars is after 7:09 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 59 degrees. The dew point will be 52 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 10 hours and 52 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 46 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly after 11pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 53 degrees at 12am. 15 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 13th. Maximum dew point of 53 at 4am. South wind 7 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. In 2019, we had clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 34 degrees. The record low of 18 occurred back in 1972.

This weekend doesn’t look half bad. β›… Saturday, a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 64. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 54 at 9am. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 52. Typical average high for the weekend is 57 degrees.

I am starting to think πŸ€” I took the wrong weekend to go to Central New York but I don’t know. It was a good weekend to go out and enjoy the colors while they are still left πŸ‚, they are rapidly fading now as we head closer to November. I don’t have any plans now until mid November and with more days being back in the office 🏒 and less remote work πŸ’», it gets harder to take long weekends – plus I’m running low on vacation time. ⏳

Looking ahead, there are 6 weeks until Cyber Monday πŸ›οΈ and Beaver Moon πŸŒ• when the sun will be setting at 4:23 pm with dusk at 4:54 pm (Standard Time). On that day in 2019, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 33 and 19 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 42 degrees. We hit a record high of 67 back in 1933.

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