April 12, 2018 Night

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Good evening! Rain and 51 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ Really pouring now, you can forget about said umbrella if you are venturing out tonight. There is a south breeze at 11 mph. 🍃 with gusts up to 22 mph 💨💨💨. The dew point is 43 degrees. The skies will clear around 1 am.

Besides not feeling too great – my eyes are itchy and noise feels congested – the rain kept me home tonight.:o At least it didn’t start until late and is helping to wash the salt off the roads and the snow away from the woods. 💦Really heavy rain expected for Sunday into Monday of next week.

Tonight will be scattered showers, mainly before midnight. Mostly cloudy ☁, with a low of 48 degrees at 6am. 10 degrees above normal. South wind 6 to 13 mph becoming west after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2017, we had mostly clear skies with more clouds in the early hours of the next day. It got down to 40 degrees. The record low of 19 occurred back in 1874.

Tonight will have a Waning Crescent Moon 🌘 with 9% illuminated. The moon will rise at 5:24 am. The New Moon is on Saturday night with a chance of showers. The Pink Moon 🌝 is on Saturday, April 28th. The sun will rise at 6:17 am with the first light at 5:48 am, which is one minute and 39 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 10 hours and 41 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 46 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have isolated showers between 10am and 3pm, then a slight chance of rain after 3pm. Mostly cloudy ☁, with a high of 56 degrees at 4pm. One degrees below normal. Northwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming light and variable. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had cloudy skies, clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 60 degrees. The record high of 87 was set in 1977. 5.5 inches of snow fell back in 1950.❄

Not a particularly nice weekend on tap. 🙁 Saturday, a chance of rain, mainly after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 45. North wind 3 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Sunday, rain likely. Cloudy, with a high near 43. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. Typical average high for the weekend is 58 degrees. At least it’s not snow.

I got my electric bill this month and it was a much more affordable $62. Not cheap but so is life.🔌 I’ve not been home as much lately and I’ve been keeping the heat off for the most part now that the weather has moderated a bit. I don’t use a lot of heat and I don’t have air conditioning or a television but sometimes it does add up from the heat, the hot water heater and the refrigerator. I probably should turn the refrigerator up a few degrees higher in the winter months.

Finished up on my QGIS plug in for exporting KML files for Google Maps. It is based heavily on mmqgis plug in but only exports KML and has a much simpler easier🌐 interface and automatically warns you if the file is too large to be displayed on Google Maps.💾 Could I upload to the plug in database? Sure although it’s hardly an original idea as most of the technical code and design is just copied line by line with a few minor tweaks.

I’m happy with this rain. I think even up north it’s warm enough to melt away at the snow. 💦 I don’t want to deal with the snow the next time I go camping. ⛺ I haven’t been up to the Adirondacks since last year it will be nice to return.

Started to layout my next circuit board for another VMS display. Going to be similar to the one in my office 🔬but this one will have more memory by using an external eeprom to store text. Now that I’ve figured out the rough design layout I’ll probably draw it out and start soldering the board together tomorrow night.

In the mail today I got the box of breadboard connectors and 555 chips for future projects I plan to build. I have some ideas for the 555 chips,🔧🔬 as there is a lot you can do with them depending on how you wire them.

In four weeks on May 10 the sun will be setting at 8:06 pm,🌄 which is 31 minutes and 31 seconds later then tonight. In 2017 on that day, we had mostly cloudy skies and temperatures between 55 and 36 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 68 and 45 degrees. The record high of 92 degrees was set back in 1970.

Looking ahead, Veterans Day Observed (Monday) 🇺🇸 is in 7 months and Thanksgiving 🦃 is in 32 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 42 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸

Donald Trump has never been in more trouble than right now

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Donald Trump has never been in more trouble than right now

"Making this more problematic, Trump isn't someone who played close to the line a time or two, or once did a shady deal. He may well be the single most corrupt major business figure in the United States of America. He ran scams like Trump University to con struggling people out of their money. He lent his name to pyramid schemes. He bankrupted casinos and still somehow made millions while others were left holding the bag. He refused to pay vendors. He exploited foreign workers. He used illegal labor. He discriminated against African-American renters. He violated antitrust laws. He did business with the mob and with Eastern European kleptocrats. His properties became the go-to vehicle for Russian oligarchs and mobsters to launder their money."

"So it was no accident that when he ran for president, the people who joined him in his quest were also a collection of grifters, liars, and crooks — people like Paul Manafort. Those were the kind of operators Trump has attracted all his life. Honest, upright people with a deep respect for the law don't go to work for Donald Trump."

The oceans’ circulation hasn’t been this sluggish in 1,000 years. That’s bad news.

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The oceans’ circulation hasn’t been this sluggish in 1,000 years. That’s bad news.

"The Atlantic Ocean circulation that carries warmth into the Northern Hemisphere’s high latitudes is slowing down because of climate change, a team of scientists asserted Wednesday, suggesting one of the most feared consequences is already coming to pass."

"The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation has declined in strength by 15 percent since the mid-20th century to a “new record low,” the scientists conclude in a peer-reviewed study published in the journal Nature. That’s a decrease of 3 million cubic meters of water per second, the equivalent of nearly 15 Amazon rivers."

"The AMOC brings warm water from the equator up toward the Atlantic’s northern reaches and cold water back down through the deep ocean. The current is partly why Western Europe enjoys temperate weather, and meteorologists are linking changes in North Atlantic Ocean temperatures to recent summer heat waves."