Slip sliding away, although my office is closed today so I will probably just stay home and maybe just see if I can scrape some of the snow and ice off my truck. That said, it looked like the buses were chugging along but I don’t mind a free three day weekend.
Snow and sleet pellets and 18 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌨 There is a north breeze at 13 mph. 🍃. The current wind chill is 5. There are 4 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at Monday around 11 am. 🌡️
What can I say, it’s not a very nice day. 🌨 And it’s going to be even colder out tomorrow. But nicer by next week. I’m just not sure if I’ll be able to get out tomorrow or if things will be still frozen from all that freezing rain we got. I don’t know if I can even get the doors open on my truck. It’s that icy outside.
Today’s sunrise was at 7:09 am. The next time the sun will rise later then today 🌄 is in 40 days on Sunday, March 13.
The average high for today is 33 degrees. 🌡 The next time it will be on average cooler then today is in 348 days on Sunday, January 15, 2023 when the average temperature will be 32 degrees.
The highest point for the sun today will be 30.3° from the horizon at 12:10 pm. 🌞 The next time the sun will be lower in the sky mid-day is in 282 days on Thursday, November 10.
Today has 9 hours and 42 minutes of daylight. ⏳ The next time the day will be shorter then today is in 281 days on Wednesday, November 9.
Today’s sunset will be at 5:08 pm. The next time the sun will set earlier then today 🌆 is in 278 days on Sunday, November 6.
The average low for today is 15 degrees. 🌡 The next night it will be on average cooler then tonight is in
Calm wind becoming south 5 to 8 mph in the morning.
and
33 degrees
,10 max wind chill,
5:08 sunset.
Tonight. Feels like … March 4th.
Increasing clouds.
South wind 8 to 10 mph.
and
22 degrees
,12 max wind chill,
7:08 sunrise.
Wednesday. Feels like … March 2nd.
Mostly cloudy.
South wind 8 to 10 mph.
and
40 degrees
,
5:10 sunset.
Wednesday Night. Feels like … April 6th.
A chance of rain, mainly after 1am. Cloudy.
South wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
and
33 degrees
,
7:06 sunrise.
Thursday. Feels like … February 27th.
Rain likely, possibly mixed with snow before 7am, then rain. High near 39. South wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
and
39 degrees
,
5:11 sunset.
Thursday Night. Feels like … February 28th.
Rain, snow, freezing rain, and sleet before 1am, then sleet between 1am and 4am, then snow after 4am. Low around 21. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
and
21 degrees
,
7:05 sunrise.
Friday. Cold !
Snow, mainly before 1pm. High near 24. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
If you can read this message then you made it to February, shortest month of the year. Only 47 days until spring. 🌷
Sunny and 10 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 Calm wind. There are 3 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at around 2 pm. 🌡️
Honestly, I don’t think it’s that cold out. ❄️ No wind, lots of sun, and temperatures that include two digits are fine in my book. I actually didn’t turn the heat up at all last night and had no problems — I was plenty warm, although I did use the electric blanket on for a while this morning.
But then again I am a bit tired, 💤 as I had to go over to the Capitol last night for a couple of hours and then ended up catching the 10:30 home. Then by the time I was in bed, after having a bite to eat, it was 11:15 PM, which is much later then usual. ⏰ But I set my alarm clock later then usual, and amazingly made it out in time for the bus. But I had a quick breakfast, 🥞 ironed my shirt 👨💼, , showered 🚿 and caught the bus. 🚏
Most bus drivers are good. 🚍 But since they switched the drivers on January 30th, the one they have on the 8:30 downtown makes me think the standards for getting a CDL have been lately significantly reduced. She’s so slow, she constantly slams on the air brakes in part because it’s like she doesn’t see people at the bus stop or other vehicles on the road, struggles to get through traffic in the city and likes to yell at customers. I can only imagine how bad she will be once it snows on Friday. 🌨
We will have to keep that messy snow storm 🌨 in mind the second half of the week. It looks like a mixed bag with ice but it could be rain or snow. But first enjoy the rain and warmer weather on Wednesday and Thursday. Not going to be beautiful but it will be wet for sure. 💦
One thing that is noticeable is the days are getting a bit warmer at times as we head into February. Even if we have outbreaks of extreme cold at this point there will be days when it moderates a bit. ☀ With the stronger sun angle its difficult for it to remain cold for long.
Today. Cold !
Sunny.
Light south wind.
and
27 degrees
,1 max wind chill,
5:07
sunset.
Tonight. Cold !
Mostly clear.
Calm wind.
and
5 degrees
,-1 max wind chill,
7:09
sunrise.
Tuesday. Feels like …
February 3rd.
Mostly sunny.
Wind chill values as low as -1. Light and variable wind becoming south 5 to 8 mph in the morning.
and
33 degrees
,-1 max wind chill,
5:08
sunset.
Tuesday Night. Feels like …
February 28th.
Mostly cloudy.
South wind 7 to 9 mph.
and
21 degrees
,
7:08
sunrise.
Wednesday. Feels like …
March 2nd.
Mostly cloudy.
South wind 7 to 9 mph.
and
40 degrees
,
5:10
sunset.
Wednesday Night. Feels like …
April 9th.
A slight chance of rain before 1am, then a chance of rain and snow. Cloudy.
Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
and
34 degrees
,
7:06
sunrise.
Thursday. Feels like …
February 27th.
Rain and snow likely before 10am, then rain. High near 39. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
and
39 degrees
,
5:11
sunset.
Thursday Night. Feels like …
March 7th.
Rain and sleet before 10pm, then freezing rain. Low around 23. Chance of precipitation is 100%.
and
23 degrees
,
7:05
sunrise.
Friday. Cold !
Sleet likely before 10am, then snow and sleet likely between 10am and 1pm, then a chance of snow after 1pm. Cloudy.
But will the coldest month of the year be February? It’s been a cold January but it seems like it might get even colder in February. Although, it’s going to be difficult for it to be much colder in February, as by that month the sun angle is getting much stronger, the days longer and the average high warmer.
Mostly sunny and 1 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌞 Calm wind. There are 3 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 2 pm. 🌡️
Another fairly cold night, 🚪 I left the cabinet doors open but didn’t turn up the heat this time. I didn’t have any problems, I really don’t know if it’s absolutely necessary to turn up the heat further except in exceptionally cold nights. I really don’t have much problems with the temperature falling much below 50 degrees, and with that heated blanket, 🛌 things always are nice and warm and comfortable. I find I don’t like sleeping when it’s too warm, so I turn off the blanket before I go to sleep and then turn it back on when I wake up. Works well.
I got a text asking me to come into work early today ⏰ but truth be told that isn’t going to happen on a session day when I have to dress up with session attire and take the local bus to work. 👨💼 If I had more warning, I probably could have gotten up earlier and gotten dressed, and caught the earlier bus, but at 7:45 AM that’s too little warning ⚠️ to get in earlier. The local is running a bit late 🚍 but I have my phone with email 📧 and hot spot if anything needs to get done right away.
I wanted to get out hiking 🚶 at the Hannacroix Ravine outside of Clarksville up on Wolf Hill 🐺 but with being on call for work it just wasn’t going to happen. I did get out to my parents house for Sunday dinner 🍲 which they made up Stuffed Shells for my birthday 🎂. And a cake which the dog 🐶 managed to take a bit bite out it fortunately after I had my slice. 😴 I have to admit being on call for work 📞is often far more bothersome than just coming into the office 🏢. I kind of wish it could just be remote work.
I have to admit I spent a good amount of the day refreshing Twitter and the LATFOR site yesterday. 🤖 waiting to see when they would post the block list for the proposed congressional and state legislative seats. I was on call all week for work so I couldn’t get up to the woods and truth be told I’m a bit of a politics geek besides being a map geek.
I got a bit of a chuckle from the reporters struggling to make sense of the block list on Twitter. 👨💻 joining the block list to the Census TIGER/Line shapefile is a pretty trivial task if you have a little experience with GIS software like QGIS. Then you just have to dissolve it on the district field. 🗺 LATFOR also posted a shapefile of the congressional districts, which is even easier to load but they messed up the uploads and it was corrupted. I don’t blame them, they’ve been working long hours. It’s not like it’s difficult to do a join on the block files, and certainly having the raw data is a lot more flexible, like figuring out which EDs are in which Congressional districts.
Because my political junkie friends I’m sure were waiting with baited breath, 😋 I posted an interactive map on my blog and an image atlas on Facebook of the new Congressional Districts. I had them up within 20 minutes of reporters talking about them on Twitter. Not because I had special access, but because the GIS task of making them was pretty trivial, especially with me making maps daily of various things, and having a lot of templates ready to go, and load up in the QGIS Atlas Generator. Some of the maps I posted though have issues –namely, they are overplotted with labels and lines in the bigger upstate districts. There are ways to automatically scale labels in QGIS when working with atlases but I need to learn them. I’ve been using QGIS for so long now and have to learn the newer techniques.
