April 12, 2020 Night

Good evening! Mostly cloudy and 56 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south-southeast breeze at 9 mph. πŸƒ. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Thursday around 1 am. β˜ƒοΈ

Not a terribly cold day but the morning was a bit chilly and the afternoon got cloudy β›…. I stayed home except for a walk to the park β›² and watched some videos, scrolled through Facebook πŸ“œ, listened to some podcasts and worked on some little project’s. 🐰 Kind of odd not seeing family πŸ‘ͺ for Easter but so be it.

Tonight will have showers, mainly after 3am. 🌧 Low of 52 degrees at 12am. 15 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 30th. Maximum dew point of 49 at 6am. πŸ–οΈ South wind 9 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 52 degrees. The record low of 19 occurred back in 1874.

Tonight will have a Waining Gibbous πŸŒ– Moon with 70% illuminated. The Pink 🌸 Moon is on Tuesday, April 28. The darkest hour is at 12:57 am, followed by dawn at 5:50 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:19 am in the east-northeast (77Β°) and last for 2 minutes and 58 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 39 seconds earlier than yesterday. πŸŒ„ The golden hour ends at 6:57 am with sun in the east (84Β°). Tonight will have 10 hours and 41 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 48 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 1pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. 🌧 High of 66 degrees at 4pm. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around May 3rd. Maximum dew point of 56 at 3pm. πŸ–οΈ Breezy, with a south wind 22 to 24 mph, with gusts as high as 44 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 74 degrees. The record high of 87 was set in 1977. 5.5 inches of snow fell back in 1950.❄

Not going to be a real nice day tomorrow ☁ but so be it. I do need to get to the laundromat and the post office βœ‰ to get stamps. And who knows how busy work will be on Monday, I expect it to pick up like last week but who knows in these crazy 😜 times. Might be good for the weekend for camping β›Ί but only time will tell. I need to get groceries too, I’m hoping Tuesday maybe to go to Rennselear and hike a bit after work and go to Aldi. The thing is they close at 7 pm so I have to plan appropriately. But they’re so fast and efficient to shop πŸͺ and the money saved along with the ease of the small store makes it worth it. I hope I don’t get soaked down at the post office if we get driving rain.

In four weeks on May 10 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (295Β°) at 8:05 pm,πŸŒ„ which is 31 minutes and 31 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had rain showers, partly cloudy and temperatures between 69 and 52 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 68 and 45 degrees. The record high of 92 degrees was set back in 1970.

Looking ahead, Mothers Day πŸ‘©β€ is in 4 weeks, Pack Rat Day πŸ€ is in 5 weeks, Strawberry Moon πŸŒ• is in 8 weeks and Fathers Day πŸ‘¨ is in 9 weeks.

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ¦…Only 40 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!πŸ¦…πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

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Smithfield shutting U.S. pork plant indefinitely, warns of meat shortages during pandemic | Article [AMP] | Reuters

Smithfield shutting U.S. pork plant indefinitely, warns of meat shortages during pandemic | Article [AMP] | Reuters

Smithfield Foods, the world's biggest pork processor, said on Sunday it will shut a U.S. plant indefinitely due to a rash of coronavirus cases among employees and warned the country was moving "perilously close to the edge" in supplies for grocers.

I have to admit my apartment probably isn’t the best place ride out COVID-19. 🏑

I have to admit my apartment probably isn’t the best place ride out COVID-19. 🏑

  • The air quality with the mold and dust has lead me to constantly find myself taking Claradin D to control my allergies
  • Not having internet access at home except for my phone and no television leaves me with less to keep myself occupied and has made work more difficult until I got a laptop
  • While I’ve been walking nightly down to the town park, I’m very hesitant to sit on a park bench to be safe and ticks are very bad for sitting in the grass this year
  • Its just not a lot of space to do things – I used to regularly walk down to the park or the library for internet and other services
  • I don’t have a comfortable chair or desk at home for working all day long
  • Truth be told, except for a few bitterly cold or rainy days I’m rarely home all day prior to the pandemic – instead I’d be at work until late in the day, be out camping or hiking, down at the library or park – home was more a place to get the mail and sleep the days between work days

Planet Money : NPR

Why Hospitals Are Laying People Off : Planet Money : NPR

Quite the reverse, in fact. Because of the need to shift resources to COVID-19 treatment bays, hospitals have had to close other departments. That means postponing or canceling non-critical, elective surgeries like knee replacements and procedures like colonoscopies, which generate the bulk of revenues for hospitals. So, in many cases, hospitals are losing money. As a result, they're laying off staff. Sometimes thousands of staff.