Several of the maps I created for Save the Pine Bush and the Rapp Road Historical Society could be seen on display at the Lupine Festival. I tabled for Save the Pine Bush most of the day. You can see more examples on my Facebook.
This is super exciting once released in 2024, as it will make it a lot easier to study land use changes over the past 36 years, in yearly steps from 1985-2021.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), in collaboration with the Multi-resolution Landscape Consortium (MRLC), has provided the community with the National Land Cover Database (NLCD), a detailed land cover database for more than 30 years. To produce the next generation of USGS land cover, with moderate thematic detail at low latency and annual frequency, research is well underway for single stream land cover products. In the initial 2024 product release, users can expect Anderson Level II type land cover classes (for example, the 16 land cover categories used in the current NLCD classification typology) at 30-meter spatial resolution on an annual time step for the years 1985-2023 for the conterminous United States. Research is underway to improve the methodology for producing and validating land cover and change related components included in the next-generation product suite and follow-on products. The results will provide USGS with leading-edge capabilities for land cover monitoring, assessments, and projections.
Monday, Monday. Hitting the go button is always difficult after a busy weekend. And so it comes around again as it always does. The one upside is a we are a week closer to summer and session wrapping up, and it’s not a election year.
Good morning! Monday’s come back around again. Only two more session weeks after today. Mostly sunny with gray to the west from the wildfire smoke and 51 degrees in Delmar for the morning walk. ☀ Calm wind. The dew point is 49 degrees.
That weekend came and went quite quickly 😲 but I rammed quite a bit in it. Yesterday I hiked out to Five Rivers in the morning, hiked Bennett Hill in the evening and visited my parents mid afternoon. Didn’t do any work yesterday, though I did a much needed mopping of the kitchen floor 🧹 and cleaned the bathtub and toilet. 🛁 The kitchen floor was muddy from the last time I was out camping, it really needed a good scrub.
I decided to get cream of wheat, aka enriched farina for breakfast 🥣 this morning. It’s not a whole grain so it lacks a lot of fiber but I’ll pare with blackberries for a good breakfast followed by some celery this morning and make sure lunch has a lot of kale included. 😋 Tomorrow reheat quiche / eggs, adding extra spinach. Fiber, its what fills you up. Packed brown rice – red lentils, kale, yellow and red peppers, finger hot peppers, spinach and tomatoes for lunch, then packed a dinner of
Today will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 74 degrees at 5pm. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 24th. Maximum dew point of 49 at 6am. North wind 5 to 7 mph becoming calm in the afternoon. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became thunderstorm by afternoon. It was sticky. The high last year was 90 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1911.
Seasonably warm for this part of May 🌷 but we’ve had relatively few really warm days this month so far this year. Despite the building El Niño strength it seems like some models are suggesting this could be a relatively mild summer. 🏖 Started out that way for sure.
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 67.7° from the due south horizon (-3.1° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:37 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (292°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (299°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:18 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 18 seconds with dusk around 8:50 pm, which is 58 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon in the west-northwest (282°) at an altitude of 28° from the horizon, 249,674 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:33 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 66 degrees. The dew point will be 47 degrees. There will be a north-northeast breeze at 6 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 53 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 48 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 50 degrees at 5am. Typical for tonight. Northeast wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies. It got down to 51 degrees. The record low of 36 occurred back in 1967.
MemorialDay Weekend forecast has improved. 🇺🇸 Saturday, a chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 72. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 48 at 7pm. Sunday, a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 75. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 50 at 8pm. Partly sunny for Memorial Day, 78. Typical average high for the weekend is 74 degrees.
As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ when the sun will be setting at 8:30 pm with dusk at 9:03 pm. On that day in 2022, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 77 and 47 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 77 degrees. We hit a record high of 97 back in 1925.
