Day: February 28, 2020

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February 28, 2020 Night

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Good evening! Snow flurries and 26 degrees in Delmar, NY. ❄ There is a west-southwest breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. Things will start to thaw out at Sunday around 2 pm. 🌡️ It was snowing a bit driving home from Grace house. Doing some scanning of documents on a Friday night for Save the Pine Bush.

Tonight will have a slight chance of snow showers before 11pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 21 degrees at 6am. Typical for tonight. Maximum wind chill around 16 at 1am; Southwest wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to degrees. The record low of -2 occurred back in 2008.

Tomorrow will have a chance of snow showers, mainly before 8am. Mostly cloudy 🌞, with a high of 27 degrees at 12pm. 11 degrees below normal. Northwest wind 8 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was degrees. The record high of 54 was set in 1976. 4 inches of snow fell back in 2012.❄

Tomorrow night will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 15 degrees at 5am. Six degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around February 5th. Maximum wind chill around 11 at 6pm; Northwest wind 8 to 13 mph. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 14 degrees. The record low of -9 occurred back in 1948.

Looking ahead to Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 34. Northwest wind around 9 mph. ☀ Typical average high for the weekend is 38 degrees.

🌹🌻🌼Only 19 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until 7 PM Sunset 🌆 with dusk at 7:27 pm (Daylight Savings Time). On that day in 2019, we had partly sunny skies, after sleet in the morning and temperatures between 44 and 21 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 43 degrees. We hit a record high of 70 back in 2012.

On a Tree

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Good bye, February

Watching the setting sun on this Friday afternoon on the bus ride home. Traffic is light, won’t be a long commute home. February is all but done, only one extra day Saturday as it’s a leap year. Only one more Friday and it will be Daylight Savings Time.

 

I am glad it’s over. I’m tired of the cold winter days and the darkness prevailing with deep snow and ice blocking off access to the roads I like to camp on off of. Winter is a good time to save gas and miles on the truck, spending more time close to home. Often March can have some warmer weather but if not, April is just around the corner. 

Coronavirus and the Terrifying Muzzling of Public Health Experts – Union of Concerned Scientists

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Coronavirus and the Terrifying Muzzling of Public Health Experts – Union of Concerned Scientists

The Trump administration is scrambling to reconcile the president’s contradictions of statements made by federal health scientists about the emerging coronavirus crisis. Their solution: muzzle scientists, require that all statements be politically vetted through Vice President Pence, and punish federal employees who draw attention to gross negligence. This is a highly dangerous power grab that undermines both emergency response and public faith in the reliability of information coming out of the government. And it speaks to the incompetence and incoherence of the response to this crisis so far.

It’s hard to keep track of the number of Trump appointees who should know basic facts about the coronavirus but don’t. Then yesterday, we learned that the actual public health experts in government would no longer be allowed to speak publicly about the outbreak without the vice president’s blessing.