View Along Yellow Trail

This open section is along the Yellow Trail, which partially follows the route of the old road connecting Karner to what is now Washington Avenue by Five Mile Waterworks.

Taken on Saturday March 12, 2011 at Albany Pine Bush.

New York State’s Largest Wildlife Management Area Will Expand Through Land Trust Partnership | Finger Lakes Land Trust

New York State’s Largest Wildlife Management Area Will Expand Through Land Trust Partnership | Finger Lakes Land Trust

The inger Lakes Land Trust (LLT) today announced the acquisition of 66 acres directly adjacent to Connecticut Hill Wildlife Management Area in the town of Newfield, Tompkins County. Connecticut Hill encompasses more than 11,000 acres of undeveloped land southwest of Ithaca and is the largest wildlife management area in the state.

See How the Vaccine Rollout Is Going in Your State – The New York Times

See How the Vaccine Rollout Is Going in Your State – The New York Times

The federal Centers for isease Control and Prevention said about 9 million people have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, far short of the goal federal officials set to give at least 20 million people their first shots before the end of 2020. At least 151,000 people in the United States have been fully vaccinated, as of Jan. 8, according to a New York Times survey of all 50 states.

The federal government said Monday that it had delivered about 25.5 million doses to states, territories and federal agencies. The shipments, which came after a record-setting race to develop, study and approve a vaccine, have marked a turning point in the pandemic at a time when deaths and cases continue to set records.

But federal health officials recently acknowledged that the vaccine rollout had had a slower-than-expected start and said they did not have a clear understanding as to why only a portion of the doses shipped across the nation had made it into arms.

 

January 12, 2021 Morning

Good morning! Three weeks to Ground Hog Day 🐻 . Come out little ground hog, put your head above the ground. Can’t you see there ain’t no shadow, on the cold hard ground. It’s not going to be too much longer until the hog sees his shadow. Dark and cloudy and 23 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. There are 2 inches of snow on the ground. β˜ƒ ️Things will start to thaw out at around 11 am. 🌑️

Today will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 35 degrees at 2pm. I’ll believe it when I see it. I mean we did get 5 minutes of sun yesterday, but it was real brief. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 15th. Calm wind becoming west around 6 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 67 degrees, which was the record. 12.8 inches of snow fell back in 2011.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:04 pm with sun having an altitude of 25.8Β° from the due south horizon (-45Β° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 12.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour πŸ… starts at 4:00 pm with the sun in the southwest (233Β°). πŸ“Έ The sunset is in the west-southwest (241Β°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:44 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 20 seconds with dusk around 5:15 pm, which is one minute and 7 seconds later than yesterday. πŸŒ‡ The best time to look at the stars is after 5:51 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies πŸŒƒ and temperatures around 34 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Tomorrow will have 9 hours and 22 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 31 seconds over today.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy πŸŒ₯, with a low of 25 degrees at 5am. 11 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 14th. Light southwest wind. In 2020, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 29 degrees. The record low of -18 occurred back in 1968.

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. πŸ˜• Saturday, rain likely before 4pm, then a chance of rain and snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 40. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 36. Typical average high for the weekend is 30 degrees.

🌹🌻🌼Only 67 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Ground Hog Day 🐻 when the sun will be setting at 5:10 pm with dusk at 5:40 pm. On that day in 2020, we had partly cloudy skies, some snow showers and temperatures between 37 and 28 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 32 degrees. We hit a record high of 53 back in 1981.

Trees Along Trail