View from Bearpen Mountain
A few weeks back I hiked up Bearpen Mountain and made a few short videos from the trip.
Darkening Skies Thru the Woods
The Picture Show : NPR
In northern Minnesota, not much can beat the pristine view ??– and the rush – of climbing a fire tower. Reaching 100 feet into the sky, there were once nearly 150 of these steel lookouts guarding the state's fire-prone forests.
Today, only a handful of climbable towers exist and they remain on the front lines of fire prevention through education and an innate human desire to perch above the treetops.
Most fire towers in the U.S. were built in the 1930s. Staffed by generations of women and men trained to locate the first wisps of smoke, they were relied upon for over two decades as a critical line of defense against forest fires. In the 1950s, lookouts were replaced by airplanes.
Today’s Almanac for Saturday January 8
Today’s Almanac
Night before dawn is 6 hours and 53 minutes,
Dawn starts at 6:53 am and runs for 31 minutes,
Sunrise is at 7:24 am which is 4 hours and 35 minutes before noon,
High noon, the transit of the sun, is at 12:02 pm,
From twelve noon to the sunset at 4:39 pm is 4 hours and 39 minutes,
Dusk lasts for 28 minutes concluding at 5:10 pm,
Leaving 6 hours and 49 minutes until midnight.
Weather Update – January 8, 2022
Sunny and cold, then ice on Sunday. 🌧
Get a little bit of everything. But the real cold comes Monday into Tuesday, but I’ll just have to bundle up for work, and try to avoid waiting out for the bus too long in the morning, by using my phone to monitor real-time bus progress. And ultimately it doesn’t matter if I’m in the office how cold it is as they’ll have the heat turned up there. Then maybe some weather that feels more like late February for the second half of the week. Not warm but moderating.
| Today. Cold ! |
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Sunny. Northwest wind 5 to 8 mph becoming light and variable in the afternoon.
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25 degrees | 4 max wind chill | 4:39 sunset |
| Tonight. Feels like … February 18th. |
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A chance of sleet, mainly after 5am. Increasing clouds. South wind 6 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no sleet accumulation expected.
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18 degrees | 9 max wind chill | 7:24 sunrise |
| Sunday. Feels like … February 17th. |
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Freezing rain and sleet before 1pm, then rain and sleet likely between 1pm and 4pm, then a chance of rain and snow after 4pm. High near 36. South wind 10 to 14 mph. 1 of an inch possible. Little or no snow and sleet accumulation expected.
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36 degrees | 13 max wind chill | 4:40 sunset |
| Sunday Night. Feels like … February 25th. |
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A chance of rain and snow showers before 1am, then a chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy. Southwest wind 9 to 14 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
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20 degrees | 13 max wind chill | 7:24 sunrise |
| Monday. Cold ! |
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A slight chance of snow showers before 1pm. Partly sunny. West wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
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27 degrees | 12 max wind chill | 4:41 sunset |
| Monday Night. Cold ! |
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A slight chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
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1 degrees | -10 max wind chill | 7:24 sunrise |
| Tuesday. Cold ! |
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Mostly sunny and cold.
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8 degrees | -11 max wind chill | 4:42 sunset |
| Tuesday Night. Cold ! |
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Partly cloudy.
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1 degrees | -7 max wind chill | 7:23 sunrise |
| Wednesday. Cold ! |
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Partly sunny.
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25 degrees | -6 max wind chill | 4:43 sunset |
| Wednesday Night. Feels like … February 22nd. |
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A chance of snow showers after 1am. Mostly cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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19 degrees | 7:23 sunrise |
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| Thursday. Feels like … February 17th. |
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A chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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36 degrees | 4:44 sunset |
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| Thursday Night. Feels like … February 25th. |
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Mostly cloudy.
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20 degrees | 7:22 sunrise |
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| Friday. Feels like … February 3rd. |
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Partly sunny.
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33 degrees | 4:46 sunset |
Good Morning – January 8, 2022
Good morning! Happy Bubble Bath Day 🧼 !
A good bubble bath might be worthwhile today, last night was pretty darn cold, coldest night so far this year. Relatively speaking not that bad, and it’s actually going to warm up into the 20s later and not to be too bad. Tomorrow though will be real icy, wet and just awful. I fully expect Sunday will be a stay at home day.
Sunny and 15 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 There is a northwest breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. The current wind chill is 4. There are 2 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around noontime. 🌡️
I am going out to Mom and Dad’s House 👪 for a Christmas lunch 🎄 with my sister and niece, 🎁 who were quaratined for Christmas over the COVID. None of them got it, but they were feeling a bit sick for a while and wanted to wait until their test results came back. COVID is everywheres these days, as is colds and all the usual that can be expected in the winter, but the muzzles 😷 certainly help on that front.
Afterwards, I want to do a quick hike up Bennett Hill 🚶♀️ before it gets dark, as I want to get my steps in as I think next week that will be difficult with the cold and having to dress up for work and take the local back and forth. That’s just going to happen in the winter, but hopefully it will be moderate before long.
Then go to Glenmont to wash my truck again 🚿 🚘 and get groceries before all the ice and road salt re-appears, not that isn’t already salty out enough. Maybe I won’t wash my truck, but I do want to be stocked up for groceries before the ice comes, as I don’t want any part of it next week.
Cloudy day at Burnt Rossman
Camping up there during the Columbus Day Weekend, hiking on some of the dirt roads and trails.