Sugar Hill Road
Rock Cut On I 88
Near The Bottom
While the colors are rapidly fading, there still are some pretty strong reds and oranges.
Taken on Sunday October 25, 2020 at Partridge Run Game Management Area.Upcoming Sunrises
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6:45 am sunrise – Monday, November 14
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NPR
The vast majority of plastic that people put into recycling bins is headed to landfills, or worse, according to a report from Greenpeace on the state of plastic recycling in the U.S.
The report cites separate data published this May which revealed that the amount of plastic actually turned into new things has fallen to new lows of around 5%. That number is expected to drop further as more plastic is produced.
Greenpeace found that no plastic — not even soda bottles, one of the most prolific items thrown into recycling bins — meets the threshold to be called "recyclable" according to standards set by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation New Plastic Economy Initiative. Plastic must have a recycling rate of 30% to reach that standard; no plastic has ever been recycled and reused close to that rate.
"More plastic is being produced, and an even smaller percentage of it is being recycled," says Lisa Ramsden, senior plastic campaigner for Greenpeace USA. "The crisis just gets worse and worse, and without drastic change will continue to worsen as the industry plans to triple plastic production by 2050." Sponsor Message
Waste management experts say the problem with plastic is that it is expensive to collect and sort. There are now thousands of different types of plastic, and none of them can be melted down together. Plastic also degrades after one or two uses. Greenpeace found the more plastic is reused the more toxic it becomes.
New plastic, on the other hand, is cheap and easy to produce. The result is that plastic trash has few markets — a reality the public has not wanted to hear.
Weather Update – October 25, 2022
One more day of rain 🌧
For a while last night, it was absolutely pouring out. This morning not so much. Actually it was raining for a bit but slowed before it was time to walk down to the express bus. But I totally hit the snooze button multiple times but still somehow managed to catch the express bus to work this morning. I don’t know how that happened but it did.
| Today. Feels like … September 28th. |
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Patchy drizzle with a chance of showers before 11am, then a chance of showers, mainly between 11am and noon. Patchy fog before 11am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
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69 degrees | 63 max dew point | 5:59 sunset |
| Tonight. Feels like … August 20th. |
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A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy. Southeast wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
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60 degrees | 7:20 sunrise |
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| Wednesday. Feels like … September 28th. |
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A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 8 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
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69 degrees | 64 max dew point | 5:57 sunset |
| Wednesday Night. Feels like … September 14th. |
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A chance of showers, mainly before 2am. Mostly cloudy. South wind around 6 mph becoming southwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
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53 degrees | 7:21 sunrise |
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| Thursday. Feels like … October 14th. |
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Mostly sunny. West wind 10 to 15 mph.
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62 degrees | 53 max dew point | 5:56 sunset |
| Thursday Night. Feels like … October 28th. |
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Areas of frost after 2am. Otherwise, mostly clear.
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37 degrees | 7:22 sunrise |
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| Friday. Feels like … October 29th. |
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Areas of frost before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny.
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56 degrees | 5:55 sunset |
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| Friday Night. Feels like … November 7th. |
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Areas of frost after 2am. Otherwise, partly cloudy.
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34 degrees | 7:24 sunrise |
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| Saturday. Feels like … October 22nd. |
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Areas of frost before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny.
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59 degrees | 5:53 sunset |
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| Saturday Night. Feels like … October 31st. |
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Patchy frost after 2am. Otherwise, partly cloudy.
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36 degrees | 7:25 sunrise |
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| Sunday. Feels like … October 17th. |
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Patchy frost. Otherwise, partly sunny.
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61 degrees | 45 max dew point | 5:52 sunset |
| Sunday Night. Feels like … October 12th. |
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A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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42 degrees | 7:26 sunrise |
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| Monday. Feels like … October 17th. |
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A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
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61 degrees | 49 max dew point | 5:51 sunset |
Daily Update – October 25, 2022
Good morning! Happy Tuesday. 🌧
Talk about a dark and tough morning to get up. In more than one way I struggled to get going this morning. May have been the rain pounding on the roof, or the fact it was pitch black at 6 AM and I couldn’t fathom waking up early. It will be so much easier when the time changes in a week and a half from now, though it will mean dark commutes home.
Rain and 57 degrees in Bethlehem, NY. ☔ Calm wind. The dew point is 57 degrees. The skies will clear Thursday around noontime.
Yesterday traffic was bad due to State Street Repaving 🚧 and it was raining so I took the local bus back home. I got home and made up some fish sticks. 🐟 Watched a few videos and read up some more about Matplotlib. While I am a big R user, Python does somethings better, and I know the National Weather Service uses Matplotlib for most of their public-facing maps with quite nice results. R though is much better for working with Census data, mostly because of it’s tight integration with the tigris package.
It really was a pretty quiet evening. 😴 Which is good because lately work has been all drama, and I like some down time when I’m not running from place to place, and I have a little time to learn and think. 🤔 It just seems like time goes by so quickly, and people are in such a rush and so demanding. I don’t want anything to do with it all.
I am looking forward to the time change. ⏰ I hate getting up in the darkness, but at the same time, I like going to bed early 🛌 as I sleep much better if I’m in bed by 9 PM most nights and limit my screen time with my phone, retiring to bed shortly after the evening walk. 🚶♀️