Delmar is a hamlet in the Town of Bethlehem, in Albany County, New York, United States. It is a suburb of the neighboring city of Albany. The community is bisected by NY Route 443 (Delaware Avenue), a major thoroughfare, main street, and route to Albany.
A census-designated place (CDP) has been established since 1980 by the U.S. Census Bureau for tabulating the population of what the census has defined as the boundaries of the urbanized area in and around Delmar. The population was 8,292 at the 2000 census, but it was not included as a CDP in the 2010 census.
In 2005, CNN/Money Magazine named the Delmar ZIP Code (an area larger than the Delmar hamlet or CDP) as one of the “Best Places to Live” in America, rating it the 22nd best place to live among what it called “Great American Towns.
Good morning! What day is it? A beautiful early spring Hump Day, of course. 🌷Four weeks to May 🕊. Partly sunny and 38 degrees down at the Elm Ave Park & Ride – CDTA. Calm wind. Pleasant 😌 morning. Temperatures will drop below freezing around 3 am. ☃️
This morning, not being a session day, I walked down to the express bus station 🚉 and are now riding into work. A fairly mild day, the heat was off in my apartment but it was quite comfortable waking up. 🌞 Waffles with blueberries and raspberries this morning. ☕ With a good cup of fresh coffee, a good start to the morning. I was feeling pretty rested, finally caught up after the Big April Fools joke known as working for 24 hours straight.
Today will have isolated showers after 3pm. Mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 61 degrees at 2pm. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 20th. Breezy, with a light and variable wind becoming west 20 to 25 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 43 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. A year ago, we had light rain. The high last year was 44 degrees. The record high of 79 was set in 1981. 11.0 inches of snow fell back in 1891.❄
Today looks like it will be an awful nice early April day. Maybe not quite warm enough to leave the windows open at home 🏡 but I’m certainly going to walk 🚶 during my lunch break. Going to be windy by mid afternoon and the temperature will drop a bit but the air is expected to be pretty dry. I got the email from the national weather service office today about the Red Flag 🚩 Warning ⚠ due to the high fire 🔥 risk that is common in the spring time. I guess if you burning stuff up in the woods, like having a campfire, you should be careful,.
This afternoon after work I’m heading over to John Wolcott’s house to continue sorting his historical files 📂. Probably stay until around dusk 🌆 and catch the 7:30 bus 🚍 home. No more late nights or session this week at work. The legislators all booked out of town yesterday. I packed some Save the Pine Bush Dinner lasagna 🍛to heat up and eat before leaving work tonight. Seems like a fitting thing.
The sun will set at 7:23 pm with dusk around 7:52 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 53 degrees. Breezy, 25 mph breeze ⛅ from the west-northwest with gusts up to 39mph. Today will have 12 hours and 51 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 51 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will be mostly clear 🌃, with a low of 30 degrees at 6am. Three degrees below normal, which is similiar to a typical night around March 28th. Breezy, with a west wind 18 to 23 mph decreasing to 11 to 16 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 37 mph. In 2018, we had partly cloudy in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 30 degrees. The record low of 14 occurred back in 1954.
Tomorrow will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 47 degrees at 3pm. Six degrees below normal, which is similiar to a typical day around March 23rd. West wind 10 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. A year ago, we had light rain. The high last year was 52 degrees. The record high of 79 was set in 1950. 4.3 inches of snow fell back in 2016.❄
Yesterday morning was crazy 😜 too as the bus was packed with exchange students heading downtown and I had some client issues to address over the phone 📱 on the bus. The evening commute – I got out a five – was much easier. Fairly smooth commute home, not too much traffic. Not quite nice enough though yesterday to go down tot he park.
Yesterday after work I went down to the library for an hour to work on the blog and a few other things. 📝 Been really busy at work, I’ve not had the time to even briefly update ☑ my blog from time to time on my phone. I skipped my evening walk 🚶 because I was tired. I did however ride the bike 🚲 for a while but stopped as I don’t have any more interesting YouTube videos that I’ve downloaded.
Sunday looks like the best day of the weekend, although maybe not for fishing as it will be quite sunny 🎣. Saturday, rain likely before 8am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 59. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Sunday, a chance of showers after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 61. Chance of precipitation is 30%.☀ Maximum dew point of 43 at 2pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 54 degrees.
No camping ⛺ this weekend as I’m going to my niece’s three year old birthday 🎂 party on Saturday but Sunday sure looks nice, although maybe too sunny for good trout fishing. Maybe early morning or evening in a deeper valley? I don’t know. I do need to get some night crawlers for sure. 🐛 A nice hike would be good too.🚶 The following week I should go to the transfer station and then start loading my camping gear back in the truck. Still hoping for decent weather for the Easter holiday weekend. 🐰
In four weeks on May 1 the sun will be setting at 7:55 pm,🌄 which is 31 minutes and 49 seconds later then today. In 2018 on that day, we had partly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 74 and 43 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 65 and 43 degrees. The record high of 86 degrees was set back in 2001.
Looking ahead, May 🕊 is in 4 weeks, 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ is in 9 weeks, Primary Day 🗳️ is in 12 weeks, Altamont Fair Opens 🎡 is in 19 weeks, State Fair Opens 🎡 is in 20 weeks, September 11th 🇸 is in 23 weeks, More Night then Day 🌌 is in 25 weeks, Last Sunset After 7 PM 🌆 is in 6 months, Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 19 months and Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 94 weeks.
That changed Monday with a study published in Nature Sustainability. It modeled how the production of a single crop, maize, contributes to air pollution in the U.S. The researchers found that corn production accounts for 4,300 premature deaths related to air pollution in every year. Ammonia from fertilizer application was by far the largest contributor to corn's air pollution footprint.
They always release the best studies on April Fools Day. That said, I'm sure people will believe this and share it for the next ten years on the internet.
Similarly, sick bats can be diagnosed by their smellprints. Every bat species has a distinctive smellprint. Bats infected with the fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd) have different smellprints than healthy bats. Pd causes white-nose syndrome, a disease that has killed more than six million bats since 2006. Electronic noses can differentiate Pd from related fungal species that grow on bat skins but are not pathogenic, as Wilson and his colleagues recently reported in the journal Sensors & Transducers.
This evening I went to Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace showing of Michael Moore’s latest film, Fahrenheit 11-9. I was surprised how much obscenity there was in the film, both the n word and f-word are repeated. I though so much obscenity was not appropriate. But it was interesting to watch even if I didn’t agree with every part of it. Good to see the local activist types are still working for change, pushing for government accountability, even though the days of George W. Bush are long ago in history. I don’t personally get involved in political things any more beyond maybe helping out at Save the Pine Bush Dinner or hike, but it’s good to see there are concerned citizens still involved.
I got an odd BIOS error about the fan not working in my laptop when I first started. The fan been rattling almost since I got it, I meant to clean it the last time I had it open. But I don’t know, I’ve been watching the temperature gauge on my laptop, and see no evidence of it malfunctioning. I guess if I notice things running hot on the gauges, I’ll turn it off, take it apart, see if I need to clean it or replace the fan. Fortunately HP parts tend to be quite cheap and easy to get on the Internet.
