Night before dawn is 6 hours and 8 minutes, Dawn starts at 6:08 am and runs for 28 minutes, Sunrise is at 6:36 am which is 5 hours and 23 minutes before noon, High noon, the transit of the sun, is at 12:08 pm, From twelve noon to the sunset at 5:40 pm is 5 hours and 40 minutes, Dusk lasts for 31 minutes concluding at 6:08 pm, Leaving 5 hours and 51 minutes until midnight.
I was thinking this morning about how the word efficiency has replaced economy. 💰
Often prior to the 1970s, products were advertised based on their economy – they didn’t use a lot of energy or at least used less energy – saving the user money. Often old florescent lighting fixtures advertised their economy and certainly compact cars did. Economy, except maybe for the outdated term of fuel economy, has all but gone away for describing conservation minded products.
Economy these days often seems like a synonym for cheap or low quality. Not necessarily efficient or money saving. You buy economy because you are poor or strapped for cash. The problem with focusing on efficiency over economy is sometimes it looks too narrowly at the current energy consumption rather than total energy consumption. A 60 watt incandescent light bulb in your attic that you turn on twice a year may be economic and not use much energy but it might not be efficient.
I am sure the replacement of efficiency over economy was chosen to emphasize the environmental virtues of efficiency. The problem with efficiency is it’s a single unit and doesn’t consider the unit’s total consumption over time. And efficiency is often used as an excuse for wastefulness – many think or act like it’s okay to be uneconomic and wasteful if something is efficient.
Good morning! Happy Thursday. Should be a nice late winter day. Next Thursday the Average High is 40 ☀️ . Partly cloudy and 34 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ Breezy, ️21 mph breeze from the west-northwest 🌬 with gusts up to 33 mph 💨💨💨. Definitely hear the wind around, with ecurrent wind chill is 23. There are 4 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 4 pm. ☃️
Breeze is a bit chilly 🍃 but the sun ☀ is nice this morning. 🌅 As is the sun. We are picking up a lot of sun in the morning as we head towards the time change ⌚ two weeks from Sunday. Looks like most of the coming week should be relatively mild as we head into March. 🌸 While nobody expects flowers in Upstate NY in March, I don’t see a lot of cold upcoming. I was noticing with all the snow on the ground this winter, I haven’t seen as many cardinals as some years.
Heading out for my morning walk shortly. The sun is nice, and it would be a very nice day if not the wind. But working down at the library in the afternoon should be fine – the wind doesn’t really effect the warmth of the truck, which is mostly about solar gain this time of year.
Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 39 degrees at 2pm. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 1st. Breezy, with a northwest wind 16 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 48 degrees. The record high of 70 was set in 2017. 16.8 inches of snow fell back in 1966.❄
Assuming today is reasonably busy today and I can take a lunch break, 🥪I am planning on going to the car wash and store. 🛒I like going out on Thursdays and my truck needs to be washed. I want to go to the library and upgrade to QGIS 3.18 🗺 and other software updates. I am excited about the improvements to QGIS and hoping that the 3D Mapping will be working properly again – it stopped working after a recent update properly.
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:09 pm with sun having an altitude of 38.4° from the due south horizon (-32.4° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 7.6 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:02 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (252°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (259°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:41 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 57 seconds with dusk around 6:08 pm, which is one minute and 15 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the east (85°) at an altitude of 25° from the horizon, 236,762 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:42 pm. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 32 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 15 mph. Tomorrow will have 11 hours and 6 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 50 seconds over today.
Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 19 degrees at 6am. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around February 24th. Maximum wind chill around 17 at 7pm; West wind 8 to 13 mph becoming light after midnight. In 2020, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 36 degrees. The record low of -11 occurred back in 1950.
Wet buy mild come the weekend. 💦 Saturday, snow before 10am, then rain. High near 45. South wind 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Sunday, a chance of showers after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 46. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Typical average high for the weekend is 38 degrees.
I doubt this will be a very good weekend to plan much outdoors. Even if things aren’t pouring on Sunday, it doesn’t sound like a very nice day and everywhere outside of black top will be one big mud puddle.
🌹🌻🌼Only 23 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼 Day by day, we get closer to spring. One week until it’s 40 degrees on an average day, and then 31 days until the average high is 50 degrees. 12 days until the earliest recorded 80 degree day in Albany, 50 days until the earliest recorded 90 degree day in Albany. Things warm quickest around the first day of spring. When there is no hope, there is spring.
As previously noted, next Thursday is Average High is 40 ☀️ when the sun will be setting at 5:48 pm with dusk at 6:16 pm. On that day in 2020, we had partly cloudy skies with some rain showers and mild temperatures between 50 and 38 degrees. We hit a record high of 59 back in 1919.
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I was noticing with all the snow on the ground this winter, I haven’t seen as many cardinals as some years.
The sun is nice, and it would be a very nice day if not the wind. But working down at the library in the afternoon should be fine – the wind doesn’t really effect the warmth of the truck, which is mostly about solar gain this time of year. 
Even if things aren’t pouring on Sunday, it doesn’t sound like a very nice day and everywhere outside of black top will be one big mud puddle. 
