December 27, 2019 Night

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Good evening! Mostly cloudy and 45 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a west breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. There is a inch of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 7 pm. ☃️

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 33 degrees at 6am. 16 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 12th. Northwest wind 6 to 9 mph. In 2018, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 35 degrees. The record low of -14 occurred back in 1951.

Tonight will have a with 8% illuminated. The moon will rise at 9:24 am. The is on Wednesday night with partly cloudy skies. The is on Wednesday night. The sun will rise at 7:24 am with the first light at 6:52 am, which is 18 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 14 hours and 56 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 24 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 42 degrees at 2pm. 10 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 30th. Northwest wind 7 to 9 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 50 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1982. 7 inches of snow fell back in 1967.❄

Tomorrow should be a really nice day but not sure about the rest of the week. ⛺ As I noted I’m pulling the plug on going to the Finger Lakes through New Years Day but I’m thinking about going to the Adirondacks tomorrow. Or maybe Madison County? I got thinking I’d like to see a more rural landscape for a change. NY 8 is always so noisy to camp along and I might be camping in snow, pretty sure I will be up north. Snow can be bad if there is a big snow bank and nowhere to park up north. But I’m a bit concerned about snow and ice up on Brown Road in Brookfield.

At any rate, I’ve packed gear for one night 🌃 and I have enough food and supplies for one night camping trip without going to the store. Multiple nights would require buying more food and packing more clothes. I’ll study for the webcams in the morning. And the radar and satellite images.

I mean I really want to get away but not if it means I’ll get soaked, muddy or chilled through. Sure I can read books at home 📖, cook on the regular stove a fancy meal and even turn up the electric heat if I want but I’d rather be up in the wilderness where I can have a fire and listen to music and nature with my headphones off. 🎧 Working in the basement office with no windows kind of has me bummed out and with the early snow storm and getting Lyme disease I didn’t get out as much as I wanted this autumn. 🔥

In four weeks on January 24 the sun will be setting at 4:57 pm,🌄 which is 29 minutes and 19 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had rain and temperatures between 48 and 32 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 31 and 14 degrees. The record high of 54 degrees was set back in 1999.

Looking ahead, Latest Sunrise of the Winter 🌄️ is in 1 week, Wolf Moon 🌕 is in 2 weeks, Save the Pine Bush Turns 42 🦋 is in 6 weeks, Valentines Day ❤️ is in 7 weeks, 7 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 11 weeks, Spring 🌷 is in 12 weeks, Good Friday ✝️ is in 15 weeks, Arbor Day 🌳 is in 4 months, May 🕊 is in 18 weeks and 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ is in 23 weeks.

White Rocks Overlook

I was going to go camping in the Finger Lakes through Wednesday until I saw the latest forecast

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I was going to go camping in the Finger Lakes through Wednesday until I saw the latest forecast. ⛺

I was fine with the originally predicted rain showers on Sunday night but not heavy rain with a constant 25 mph wind and temperatures around 38. Something about the 20-27 mph wind with rain and my 15 year old end of the year sale Walmart tent  didn’t seem like a good idea 💡. Plus it now looks like the rain and clouds will linger through New Years Day. So instead I’m going to the Adirondacks for the weekend. 

The Era Of Easy Recycling May Be Coming To An End | FiveThirtyEight

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The Era Of Easy Recycling May Be Coming To An End | FiveThirtyEight

Americans love convenient recycling, but convenient recycling increasingly does not love us. Waste experts call the system of dumping all the recyclables into one bin “single-stream recycling.” It’s popular. But the cost-benefit math of it has changed. The benefit — more participation and thus more material put forward for recycling — may have been overtaken by the cost — unrecyclable recyclables. On average, about 25 percent of the stuff we try to recycle is too contaminated to go anywhere but the landfill, according to the National Waste and Recycling Association, a trade group. Just a decade ago, the contamination rate was closer to 7 percent, according to the association. And that problem has only compounded in the last year, as China stopped importing “dirty” recyclable material that, in many cases, has found no other buyer.

A top concern for this long-weekend in the wilderness will be the mud

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A top concern for this long-weekend in the wilderness will be the mud … 🐷

Rain in the winter, especially after the snow means things will be muddy. I will try to camp somewhere elevated and stay out of the mud as much as possible, to avoid disturbing the ground, but some may not be possible. 🦺 I’ve camped out there enough in the rain to know what areas flood and are muddy, but the ground this time will be particularly weak being that it is mid-winter.

Scientists alarmed by massive amounts of road salt used in the Northeast – News – The Herald News, Fall River, MA – Fall River, MA

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Scientists alarmed by massive amounts of road salt used in the Northeast – News – The Herald News, Fall River, MA – Fall River, MA

While Americans may dream of a white Christmas, living with snow the rest of the season is driving a nightmare salt habit.

Each year, Americans spread more than 48 billion pounds of salt on roadways to ward off the effects of winter weather. But it comes at a cost: De-icing salt degrades roads and bridges, contaminates drinking water and harms the environment, according to a slate of scientists expressing growing alarm.

“The issue of road salt has been out in front of us for decades but has received very little attention until the past five years,” said Rick Relyea, a biological scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute near Albany, New York. “Then we see, my goodness, it is everywhere, and it is a growing problem.”