Good evening! Cloudy and 41 degrees in Delmar for the evening walk. ☁️ Breezy, ️16 mph breeze from the south-southeast 🌬 with gusts up to 30 mph 💨💨💨. There is a inch of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at Saturday around 1 am. ☃️
Kind of chilly this evening with the wind 🌬️ but I’m out walking because that’s what I do in the evening. One of my eyes 👀 is a bit irritated and I’m tired 😴 as I didn’t sleep well last night as I was a bit bothered by the news of Ward Stone’s passing. The high cost of politics. I think it’s better to focus on making money 💵 and looking the other way as your community is going to shit.
Tonight will rain likely before 10pm, then a chance of showers after 3am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 42 degrees at 6pm. 26 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 27th. South wind 11 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 12 degrees. The record low of -21 occurred back in 1948.
Somebody brought in doughnuts 🍩 to work today and I walked right on by. Sugar is ducking poison ☠ I told myself and walked on by. I don’t need the free food, I’m not starving. Having that bowl of oranges, apples and bananas in my office really helps. 🍊🍎🍌 I eat a couple throughout the day whenever I’m hungry and I have a lot more energy. And if turns out it’s actually cheaper than eating bigger meals. 🍴 Pasta, frozen chicken, sauce seems cheap – if you buy in bulk but it’s not if you end up eating a ton of it, ignoring the health impacts. But if you’re eating fruits and vegetables all day long 🥦 you feel far less hungry. 🤰🏼
Tonight will have a Waining Gibbous 🌖 Moon with 84% illuminated. The moon will rise at 9:21 pm. The Snow ❄ Moon is on Saturday, February 25. The darkest hour is at 12:10 am, followed by dawn at 6:32 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:02 am in the east-southeast (110°) and last for 3 minutes and 4 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 15 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:42 am with sun in the east-southeast (117°).Tonight will have 13 hours and 36 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 35 seconds over last night.
Today I found they are extending the 519 bus to Voorheesville. 🚍 Kind of happy 😊 about being able to catch the express in front of my apartment as it makes for an easier commute on session days or bad weather when I don’t want to necessarily walk down to the express.
Tomorrow will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 48 degrees at 10am. 13 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 22nd. Breezy, with a west wind 16 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph. A year ago, we had snow in the morning, which became snow by afternoon. The high last year was 25 degrees. The record high of 53 was set in 1955. 4.0 inches of snow fell back in 1892.❄
Saturday I’m thinking of sanding and painting that rust spot on my passenger door of my truck. Figure arrest the rust the best I can while I still can. 🛻🖌️ And maybe do an early morning walk 🚶 down to Norman’s Kills Falls.
In four weeks on March 9 the sun will be setting in the west (265°) at 5:55 pm,🌄 which is 35 minutes and 12 seconds later then tonight. In 2021 on that day, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 50 and 27 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 43 and 24 degrees. The record high of 81 degrees was set back in 2016.
Looking ahead, Read Across America Day 📚 is in 3 weeks, 7:30 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 2 months, Arbor Day 🌳 is in 11 weeks, 8:30 PM Dusk 🌆 is in 12 weeks, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 12 weeks, 9 PM Dusk 🌆 is in 16 weeks, June 🍹 is in 16 weeks, 8:30 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 17 weeks, Ugly Truck Day 🚚 is in 23 weeks, Campfire Day 🔥 is in 25 weeks, Columbus Day 🛥️ is in 35 weeks, Average High is 60 🍂 is in 36 weeks, Thanksgiving 🦃 is in 41 weeks, Average High is 40 🌨 is in 10 months, Earliest Sunset of the Year ⌛️ is in 10 months, First Day of Winter ☃️ is in 45 weeks and 4:30 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 46 weeks.
I re-crunched, well my computer with 100 lines of Python, re-crunched the now-official Albany County 2022 Election results which now includes blanks and drop-off numbers.
At some point I might crunch 2018 and earlier back to 2011, but the problem I run into is the Board of Elections Enrollments are in PDF format which are slightly more difficult to process compared to Excel files they’ve used since 2019.
I decided to take a look at the 2020 Census data and redistricting in the City of Albany. Ward 12, the Pine Bush is the biggest winner while North Albany Ward 4 is the biggest looser. Pine Hills Ward 13 was hurt a lot by COVID 19 and college students being remote during April 2020.
Good morning! Firery red skies to the south east and 22 degrees for the morning walk. 🌅 Calm wind for now. ️Things will start to thaw out at around 8 am. 🌡️Then more rain. That should kill off most of the remaining snow.
Skies are certainly colorful for the morning walk 🚶 but it’s a sure sign of the coming clouds and rain. I will try to get as many steps as possible in before the rain, probably walking the Concourse and museum at lunch time so I have my ten k in without having to walk in the rain ☔.
Out walking by 6:30 which is good 🥞though it’s still to dark to walk before breakfast at six but maybe next week. I generally like walking earlier in the morning when it’s quieter out. Also if I walk first then I feel like time is less compressed in the morning. 🗜
Today will rain, mainly after 11am. 🌧 High of 42 degrees at 4pm. Seven degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 6th. Light south wind increasing to 12 to 17 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. I’m old enough to remember when it snowed in the winter but not this year. A year ago, we had snow in the morning, which became snow by afternoon. The high last year was 24 degrees. The record high of 57 was set in 1925. 13.7 inches of snow fell back in 1906.❄
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:10 pm with sun having an altitude of 32.7° from the due south horizon (-38.2° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 9.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:39 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (244°). 📸
The sunset is in the west-southwest (251°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:19 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 4 seconds with dusk around 5:48 pm, which is one minute and 18 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:22 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 42 degrees. Breezy, 17 mph breeze ⛅ from the south-southeast with gusts up to 30mph. Tomorrow will have 10 hours and 24 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 36 seconds over today.
Tonight will rain likely before midnight, then a chance of showers, mainly between midnight and 5am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 42 degrees at 6pm. 26 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 27th. South wind 10 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 12 degrees. The record low of -21 occurred back in 1948.
A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 37. Northwest wind 10 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 43. Typical average high for the weekend is 35 degrees.
Maybe a bit breezy but the sunshine ☀ should be nice. Still think this should be a stay at home weekend though I’m considering stopping by Indian Lader Farms 🍏 and doing some bird 🐦 watching at the marsh out in Voorheesville though with the muck boots 👢 on.
As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Read Across America Day 📚 when the sun will be setting at 5:47 pm with dusk at 6:14 pm. On that day in 2022, we had cold, mostly sunny and temperatures between 24 and 9 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 40 degrees. We hit a record high of 65 back in 1991.
