Still it looks like spring won’t be happening as we head into May, although let’s be honest, even the coldest days in May aren’t like March or February. So there is some hope, although maybe not a lot of hope.
Weather Update – April 22, 2022
It’s Earth Day and it looks like the forecast will help with the green up ๐ฑ โ๏ธ
Lots of sun and fairly mild this weekend, and we got plenty of rain over the past few days. But windy, so be careful burning shit up in the woods. It’s really too bad that I have to stay in town this weekend, although there is still quite a bit of snow up north. I am hoping for good weather next weekend, not windy or stormy, although it will be difficult possibly with work to get away. And then if I go a week later, I’ll be fighting black flies — and it’s also the Tulip Festival and they’ll probably want me to help out with the Save the Pine Bush booth there.
Today. Feels like … April 17th. |
Sunny. Northwest wind 11 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph.
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60 degrees | 7:46 sunset |
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Tonight. Feels like … April 11th. |
Mostly clear. Northwest wind 6 to 11 mph becoming light after midnight.
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35 degrees | 5:59 sunrise |
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Saturday. Feels like … April 17th. |
Mostly sunny. North wind around 5 mph becoming calm.
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60 degrees | 7:47 sunset |
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Saturday Night. Feels like … May 2nd. |
Isolated showers. Mostly cloudy. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
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43 degrees | 5:58 sunrise |
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Sunday. Feels like … April 28th. |
Partly sunny. Southeast wind 3 to 8 mph.
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65 degrees | 43 max dew point | 7:48 sunset |
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Sunday Night. Feels like … May 10th. |
Mostly cloudy.
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46 degrees | 5:56 sunrise |
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Monday. Feels like … May 3rd. |
Mostly cloudy.
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67 degrees | 46 max dew point | 7:50 sunset |
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Monday Night. Feels like … May 16th. |
Rain likely, mainly after 2am. Mostly cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
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48 degrees | 5:55 sunrise |
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Tuesday. Feels like … April 17th. |
Rain likely. Cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
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60 degrees | 7:51 sunset |
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Tuesday Night. Feels like … May 4th. |
A chance of rain. Mostly cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
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44 degrees | 5:53 sunrise |
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Wednesday. Feels like … April 1st. |
A chance of rain. Partly sunny. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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52 degrees | 7:52 sunset |
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Wednesday Night. Feels like … April 14th. |
A chance of rain. Mostly cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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36 degrees | 5:52 sunrise |
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Thursday. Feels like … March 30th. |
Partly sunny.
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51 degrees | 7:53 sunset |
Daily Update – April 22, 2022
Good morning! Happy Earth Day! ๐
A pretty nice morning for anything outdoors be it turning the dirt or just walking down to the express bus as I’m doing. Things continue to green in the city, although it will be another blustery spring day. Don’t be leaving smoldering garbage piles while you run to town on this Earth Day.
Mostly sunny and 46 degrees at the Elm Ave Park and Ride. ๐ There is a west breeze at 11 mph. ๐.
Again this morning, the wind makes the day feel a bit cold especially downtown. ๐ฌ๏ธPast few weeks have been quite windy and cool. Once the weather changes though I’m sure it will get quite hot. Before you know it I’ll want to reinflate that truck intertube so I can be floating down a river some where. โซ Seventy degrees days are rare in Albany – it’s usually either eighty and hot or in the fifties. ๐โ๏ธ I’m totally ready for summer months.
Yesterday I got in more than 22,000 steps ๐ฃ or a little over ten miles which isn’t bad for a work day. My usual walks were about 5 miles or so then there was the Pine Bush Hike ๐ถโ๏ธ๐ฒand then I walked until well after dusk ๐ in the Pine Bush even more. Today though I found a few ticks on my back and swear I’m a bit stiff and sore but hopefully I don’t have Lyme. Maybe because it’s that I didn’t sleep well. ๐ด It was really pretty in the Pine Bush come dusk.
That said, I may just be tired as I was up later then usual. ๐ I hiked in the Pine Bush until quarter to nine, then got $30 in gas for my truck โฝ and a few supplies at the Yuppie Market 32 in Guilderland. ๐ Seeing the prices at Yuppie Market 32 made me almost want to faint and fall over. Everything has gotten so expensive with inflation. ๐ One upside I will say is that while prices are up at Walmart, they don’t seem quite as bad as more yuppie marts. But then again, I buy very basic things, and even at Walmart things aren’t as cheap as they one were.
It’s Earth Day. ๐ I should burn less plastic up in the woods and take it to the landfill to be dumped in the Pine Bush City Garbage Dump, lol. ๐คฃ Seriously though, I think one of the best things you can do for the environment isn’t buy greenie products or even recycle, but buy less things, drive less, walk more, do more locally. ๐ถโ๏ธ
Make your own food, take care of your own needs without buying things with a lot of packaging. Packaging not produced doesn’t have to be recycled or landfill. โป๏ธ I did the recycling thing all winter long, like a good boy, washing out my bottles and cans, and it certainly cuts down on the number of trash bags getting burnt, although I have to say tossing burnables in hot fire is a lot easier and saves water and trips to the transfer station — where you don’t know if the recyclables ultimately just take the long trip to the landfill. ๐ฅ
I always thought farmers ๐ were some of the most green people out there, ๐ฒ as they composted or burned most of their waste, and they are ultimately keeping the land green and working, and not becoming suburbanite subdivisions and shopping malls. ๐ฌ Of course people disagree with that, because cows when chewing the cud do burp methane from breaking down the hay, which is a greenhouse gas until it’s absorbed by all the grass and corn grown to feed the next generation of cows. ๐ฎ ๐ ๐ฝ After all, corn and hay are made up of carbon dioxide that are absorbed from the atmosphere.
That said, unlike the suburbanite who has their trash picked up every week, many farmers go to the transfer station once a year or less, especially if they burn and have their own dump on their on their property. It’s a fact that an acre of cows grazing produce far less greenhouse gas then an acre of suburbanite houses or high-rise buildings. ๐ข And farmers don’t usually have the money to spend on greenie-products that they bought on the Amazon have to throw away each way. ๐ฆ
Needless to say, today I have to work ๐จ๐ผ and make money, ๐ฐ so I don’t have any time to participate in Earth Day Protests ๐ although I’ll have to watch them from my office. I do have a good view of West Capitol Plaza from my new office. Not that I’ll have a lot of free time, as I expect today be a very busy day at work. ๐ฆ There is far more wildlife on a dairy ๐ฎ or any other type of farm ๐ then any city block, I don’t care about how you are chopping off people’s heads and claiming cities are lower per capita ๐ฅ compare to less populated, green wild country that smells like cow poop ๐ฉ and silage. ๐ฝ