March 23, 2020 Night

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Good evening! Snow and 33 degrees in Delmar, NY. ❄ There is a north-northeast breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. There are 3 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️It seems like we got a lot more snow than expected. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Wednesday around 3 am. ☃️

Its been so chaotic with all the changes due to social distancing 👾I ended up missing the virtual conference call I had for Save the Pine Bush tonight. 📞 Never crossed my mind, listening 👂 to the presidents press conference. It’s good that he’s pushing reopening the country and putting people back to work after this brief pause in society for social distancing and slowing the spread of Coronavirus. We need to get moving again even if it hurts the elderly and frail people. 👴 It’s more important to help families get back to work and health care has had an additional two weeks to prepare for Coronavirus. 😷

I rode the exercise bike 🚲 for about 45 minutes while listening to the president and then worked on some maps. I worked from home today 🏡 after getting chilled through down in the library parking lot working from my truck until the battery started to get low with no solar and the roads started to get icy.

Tonight will snow, mainly before 1am, then a chance of snow showers after 1am. 🌨 Low of 33 degrees at 9pm. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 1st. North wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible. In 2019, we had clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 26 degrees. The record low of 0 occurred back in 1875.

Tonight will have a New 🌚 Moon. The Pink 🌸 Moon is on Tuesday, April 7. The darkest hour is at 1:03 am, followed by dawn at 6:25 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:53 am in the east (88°) and last for 2 minutes and 54 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 45 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:31 am with sun in the east (94°). Tonight will have 11 hours and 38 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 55 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 46 degrees at 2pm. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 21st. Northwest wind 6 to 8 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with sunny skies in the afternoon. The high last year was 57 degrees. The record high of 69 was set in 1976. 5.5 inches of snow fell back in 1956.❄

In four weeks on April 20 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (287°) at 7:43 pm,🌄 which is 31 minutes and 57 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had rain and temperatures between 71 and 60 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 61 and 39 degrees. The record high of 93 degrees was set back in 1941.

Looking ahead, Arbor Day 🌳 is in 5 weeks, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 6 weeks, Flower Moon 🌕 is in 8 weeks, Memorial Day Weekend Starts 🏕️ is in 2 months, Memorial Day 🇺🇸 is in 9 weeks, June 🍹 is in 10 weeks, Average High is 80 🏖 is in 13 weeks and Primary Day 🗳️ is in 3 months.

🇺🇸🦅Only 59 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸

Almost Sunset

I think it’s good that the president is prioritizing getting the economy going again. 💰

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I think it’s good that the president is prioritizing getting the economy going again. 💰

Protecting the public health is important as is keeping senior citizens and vulnerable citizens but so is economic growth and providing essential services, protecting democracy and tax revenues to local government.

Social distancing not only has an economic cost, it is very detrimental to our civic institutions and communities. It an evil that should go away as soon as possible while still protecting the public’s health through commonsense measures like encouraging people to wash their hands, providing hand sanitizer and cleaning door knobs and providing a few more weeks of isolation for the eldery and frail. It should be remembered as just an unfortunate action that had to be taken for a short period of time to protect our most vulnerable.

Magnificent White Pine Stand

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On top of Cole Hill near the Cole Farm, there is a portion of 1930s reforested White Pines, planted to hold down the soil and also provide a crop for the pulp and paper industry. This is similar to the area recently clear cut, in an effort to get more natural and desirable hardwoods to replace them.

Taken on Sunday March 20, 2011 at Cole Hill State Forest.

One Year Ago During the Week of March 23

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Last year …

On Monday 03/25/19 we had partly sunny skies ☀ with high of 46 and a low of 28, which is two degrees below normal.

On Tuesday 03/26/19 we had sunny skies 🌞 with high of 45 and a low of 21, which is four degrees below normal.

On Wednesday 03/27/19 we had mostly sunny skies 🌞 with high of 50 and a low of 22, which is a degree above normal.

On Thursday 03/28/19 we had partly cloudy skies 🌤 with high of 55 and a low of 33, which is five degrees above normal.

On Friday 03/29/19 we had rain showers 🌦 and cloudy skies ☁ with high of 51 and a low of 44, which is a degree above normal.

On Saturday 03/30/19 we had partly sunny skies 🌞 and warm weather with high of 71 and a low of 42, which is 20 degrees above normal.

On Sunday 03/31/19 we had partly cloudy 🌤 and rain showers 🌦 with high of 60 and a low of 35, which is nine degrees above normal.

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