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Sunday is Daylight Savings Time

Andy | March 5, 2014

Next weekend starts daylight savings time.... should be nice having more daylight in the evening, despite it being somewhat darker in the morning.

A lot of people are complaining about the early week for the start of daylight savings time, but I don’t know, I would prefer to have more daylight in the evening then in the morning. I would rather have some daylight when I get out of work and deal with somewhat darker mornings – although as I am a 9-5 employee, the mornings really aren’t too dark either.

I look forward to having a daylight in the evening to go down to the park and read, although days will have to get a fair bit longer and the snow will have to melt first. But those days can’t be too far away.

Winter is rapidly starting to fade away, even if the mercury isn’t showing it the past few days. The reality is if it’s below 20 degrees all day in March then when we switch to above average temperature it will be in the 50s and 60s, and the snow will rapidly melt away. Usually in the Albany area in the spring, we have weather in the 20s until a high front comes through, and it goes up to the 70s and 80s.

I won’t get my hopes up to high. It may warm up — even be oppressively hot in March or April, but spring really won’t come until late April in the lowest elevations, and not until mid-May in the Adirondacks.

Awesome Saturday Weather

Andy | February 21, 2014

We might just get our first taste of spring on Saturday. This is the warmest it's been in months. Watch out for the mud.

Saturday Forecast

Rainy Morning Out Today

Andy | January 14, 2014

Kind of a wet, dark, Tuesday morning out there folks.

Warm January weather brings… rain. Which I guess is a good thing, because it keeps things from getting too dried out, but I would rather have snow then rain in the winter. Snow is much more pretty, even if it screws up people’s commutes and makes delays of everything.

You can’t really control the weather. At least after the cold snap, we are saving on heating. I turned off the heat yesterday morning, and it hasn’t been on since. I figure if it’s above freezing, there is no need for heat – I can just turn on the baseboard electric heat temporarily if I get chilly when home.

That said, it sure would be nice to live an well insulated building, that was heated by wood, that I could cut myself and not have to send so much money every month to some fossil fuel company that is fracking the energy from a distant location.

Going to Be a Rainy Start to Week.

Andy | June 10, 2013

So the forecast is predicting. Lots of heavy rain to follow the previous rain in recent days, including the very gloomy wet Friday and Saturday, earlier this week. Probably really bad for the sewers and overflowed sewage treatment plants, that will continue keeping the Hudson River a muddy-raw sewage soup.

Next weekend’s weather forecast looks nice, but things can change by then. I really look forward to a nice solidly good weekend, as Memorial Day Weekend was pretty crappy except for Memorial Day, and two weekends ago at Piseco-Powley Place was darn hot and humid with rain showers and thunderstorms throughout the weekend.

Looking forward to the nice weather … should it actually be as nice as the forecast predicts.

May

Andy | May 1, 2013

The month of May is upon once us again. It’s the first full month of spring, and it’s also the month of the unofficial start of summer, also known as Memorial Day Weekend. The month starts out with the green of early spring well under way, and leaves us with the signs of a spring maturing, and summer well under way.

There will be warm days and cool days in May. The days will continue to grow longer and longer, until we reach the end of the month, and almost feel like the lengthening days are too long too be true. They will prove to be true, once the end of June comes and we start to see maturing summer work it’s way towards August, and ultimately the fall.

Farms and gardeners will prepare and plant their crops. Many will work outdoors, soaking up the beautiful warming weather of spring time. They will enjoying the changing outdoors, that will ultimately in four months bring fall time bounty. Things will start to growth, and the natural world will come alive again.

May is a month of barbecues, parades, camping out under the stars, and much beauty this month. Much to enjoy, much to do that wasn’t possible when things where colder and not nearly as green. The days will past quickly as we work ourselves into the first true month of summer with June, but it still sure will be nice.

So enjoy this beautiful first month of what hopefully will be many months with long and beautiful nights outdoors.