April 30, 2020 Night

Good evening! Rain and 55 degrees in Delmar, NY. β˜” Breezy, ️17 mph breeze from the south-southeast 🌬 with gusts up to 30 mph πŸ’¨πŸ’¨πŸ’¨. The dew point is 50 degrees.

The Lyme Disease round 2 is no joke and I’m going to call the doctor on the morning 😷 and figure out this telemedicine thing. I wanted to wait for the bulls eye but I’m so achy and sore and pulled that big gorged tick on Tuesday. 🐜 I guess round 2 of Lyme hits a lot harder. I didn’t even think about my evening walk. I just hope come morning I won’t be too stiff and sore to climb the stairs. I’m sure once I get on doxycline I’ll be fine πŸ’Š but this is pretty awful.

I’d like to get up to the Adirondacks this weekend for some social distancing β›Ί but with the Lyme disease and the mud and particularly the rain that is going to last through Friday night I don’t see it happening. Going to be a nice weekend so I’ll have to figure out what I can do closer to home. Weather is only going to improve as summer approaches and once I make up my mind on the screen house for camping I’ll have a black fly free zone for enjoying a long weekend camping.

Tonight will rain. The rain could be heavy at times. 🌧 Low of 53 degrees at 6am. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 30th. Maximum dew point of 52 at 4am. πŸ–οΈ Southeast wind 11 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 42 degrees. The record low of 28 occurred back in 2008.

Tonight will have a First Quarter πŸŒ“ Moon with 54% illuminated. At 9 PM, the moon was in the southwest (225Β°) at an altitude of 61Β° from the horizon, some 230,996 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. πŸš€ At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by October 22nd. Buckle up for safety! πŸ’Ί The Flower 🌷 Moon is on Thursday, May 7. The darkest hour is at 12:53 am, followed by dawn at 5:21 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:52 am in the east-northeast (69Β°) and last for 3 minutes and 6 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 22 seconds earlier than yesterday. πŸŒ„ The golden hour ends at 6:31 am with sun in the east-northeast (75Β°). Tonight will have 9 hours and 54 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 30 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will rain before 10am, then a chance of showers between 10am and 3pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. 🌦 High of 63 degrees at 3pm. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 29th. Maximum dew point of 54 at 1pm. πŸ–οΈ Southeast wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 56 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 2001. There was a dusting of snow in 1978.❄

In four weeks on May 28 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (301Β°) at 8:23 pm,πŸŒ„ which is 28 minutes and 47 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had rain showers, mostly cloudy and temperatures between 57 and 50 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 73 and 51 degrees. The record high of 93 degrees was set back in 2016.

Looking ahead, Flower Moon πŸŒ• is in 1 week.

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ¦…Only 22 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!πŸ¦…πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

Hunter Mountain Fire Tower

Coronavirus Deaths

Looking at the age and gender breakdown of towns in New York, it would seem like the places that will ultimately see the greatest number of deaths from Coronavirus, as percentage of the population in New York is the rural towns in Central Adirondacks (Old Forge, Blue Mountain Lake, Newcomb) and Eastern Catskills (Hunter, Windham, Shandaken).

Those towns have the greatest number of people over age 75 in New York and tend to be more male than female. Plus those communities are popular for tourists and second home owners and it really only takes one asymptomatic carrier to spread it the whole town. They’re really in cross hairs.