Friday marks the earliest sunset of the year, after which we will continue to add sunlight into the evening until late June. It won’t be until January though that the mornings start to brighter — we still have a few minutes of daylight to lose in the morning.
Upcoming Sunsets:
Earliest Sunset – Friday, December 10 at 4:22 pm 4:30 pm sunset – Tuesday, December 28 4:45 pm sunset – Thursday, January 13 5:00 pm sunset – Tuesday, January 25 5:15 pm sunset – Saturday, February 5 5:30 pm sunset – Thursday, February 17 5:45 pm sunset – Tuesday, March 1 7:00 pm sunset – Sunday, March 13 Daylight Savings Time Begins – Sunset on Sunday, March 13 is at 6:59 pm 7:15 pm sunset – Saturday, March 26 7:30 pm sunset – Friday, April 8 7:45 pm sunset – Thursday, April 21
I guess that’s kind of the norm when you have a 50 degree day in December. They seem to happen more times lately then in the past, but at least it’s not snow and it will save on the heating bills. Next weekend looks to be rainy, but mild too. Tuesday and Thursday should have some sun, and not too cold. Come Friday, we start to add some more daylight in the evening, though not much, but it will accelerate.
Today. Feels like … October 29th.
Showers, mainly after 4pm.
Breezy, with a south wind 8 to 13 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
and
56 degrees
,
4:22 sunset.
Tonight. Feels like … November 23rd.
Showers, mainly before 8pm.
West wind 13 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 37 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
and
29 degrees
,
7:12 sunrise.
Tuesday. Feels like … December 18th.
Partly sunny.
West wind 6 to 9 mph.
and
37 degrees
,
4:22 sunset.
Tuesday Night. Feels like … December 14th.
Mostly cloudy.
Light west wind.
and
23 degrees
,
7:12 sunrise.
Wednesday. Feels like … January 5th.
A chance of snow. Mostly cloudy.
Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
and
33 degrees
,
4:21 sunset.
Wednesday Night. Feels like … December 17th.
A chance of snow before 1am. Mostly cloudy.
Chance of precipitation is 30%.
and
22 degrees
,
7:13 sunrise.
Thursday. Feels like … December 26th.
Mostly sunny.
and
35 degrees
,
4:21 sunset.
Thursday Night. Feels like … December 7th.
A chance of snow showers after 1am. Mostly cloudy.
Going to be a warm day, already is. Maybe the fifties later, although by mid-week we might get some snow, though not too much. But usually when we have days in December in fifties, it is rain.
Rain showers and 44 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a south breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 2 am. ☃️ Snow showers maybe mid-day Wednesday, but it looks like I will dodge the bullet on the day Big Red is getting his new tires.
Right now it’s not pouring out, 🌂 but I am certainly planning on bringing my umbrella to work today, as it might be wet by later. It’s a dress up day for work, as clients are in town, but I am hoping it’s not so wet I can’t just wear my regular dress shoes and skip the boots heading into the office today. Winter is coming and there will be plenty of time to wear the boots. 👨💼
I have a bit of an upset stomach today, 😣 but that is normal for me on a Monday. There is so no such thing as feeling cheery before a 5 day work week, although maybe I’ll decide to take off a day some point in the week, but nothing is set in stone yet.
Today I am going to once again reschedule Big Red’s inspection, 🔍 this time for Friday, in hope of getting Red back on the road for the weekend. That said, it’s going to rain this weekend, so I’m not hopeful about getting out of town this weekend, but it far enough off, things could change. 🚘 Remember for a while, they were talking about a big snow storm the day Red was getting his tires put on.
Yesterday, I installed the Waffle R package on my computer, 🍱 so I will probably post some pretty waffle graphs on my blog. It seems like Waffle charts are very popular these days, probably for good reason.
I am thinking about walking down to CVS and getting my COVID-19 booster tonight. 💉 That way I can do my evening walk and get the protection of the booster before they run out of supply. I was told that I don’t need to bring anything, at CVS they have my health insurance card on file. I should look back at my blog and see when I got my first shot in case they ask. Of course if it’s raining maybe tomorrow. That said, it would be a whole lot easier if I could get it at the Empire State Plaza Concourse.
I keep thinking about taking a week to winter camp in the Finger Lakes in two or three weeks ⛺
It’s kind of a crazy idea but it certainly wouldn’t have been the first time I’ve camped in the Finger Lakes during the winter – or for that matter in December or January.
Nights are long, the woods is cold. That’s a granted. But the propane heater is warm and with sufficient blankets I should have no problem staying warm in the tent. Often the woods is pretty around dusk as is the low sun angle. There may be opportunities to ski and enjoy the snow covered back country.
I have the time I can take off from work. I’m otherwise going to loose the time at the end of the year. The winter solitude and quiet would be nice. I am not opposed to the darkness. But the weather can be terribly variable this time of year and it can be snowy and icy. And gas is expensive as is food and the ever necessary propane.
It would be nice to get away, far from the tiny walls of my cold apartment in the city with its electric stove. Where I could have a fire every night, have a warm dinner in a paper plate then retire to the tent early and sit by the heater before killing it for the night and snuggling under the covers. Get away from the fake cheer of Christmas, the selling and the marketing.
I was hoping for better weather today, 🌞 for going out to Five Rivers but it looks like we are still stuck on the clouds and gray skies. 🐦 Regardless, unless it starts to snow or rain, I will be head out there before it gets dark too early — which will happen early with sunset at 4:22 PM tonight.
I am watching the forecast carefully to see about Wednesday when I am scheduled to have the new tires put on Big Red. ⚫ The shop said they could do it Tuesday, but I couldn’t as had a 8:30 meeting downtown, and then that meeting got canceled and then they announced a big snow storm on Wednesday which appears to be cancelled. But I am pretty determined to get the tires on Wednesday and the shock bushing repaired so I can get the truck inspected on Thursday or Friday, so I can put this long obnoxious process in the rear-view mirror, and save for the next big repair on Red.
Thursday I will officially be the Deputy Director for Research in the Assembly, 👨💼 which means I get a new office, more money, and a bunch of other nice perks. That’s kind of fun. Not going to have the great views though from my old office, although now I trade in views of the Catskills and Pine Bush for the Capitol and the Dunn Construction Debris landfill. 🗑 Working in skyscraper downtown most of the views are of smokestacks and landfills, a sign of the times. 🛣
Next weekend I might try to get out of town for a long weekend, 🏕 but so far the forecast doesn’t look that promising. What can I say — it’s winter. I have this crazy thought about going out to the Finger Lakes for a week in mid to late December to winter tent camp at the National Forest, ❄️ although maybe that’s just the crazy that is talking, not what my real plans are. 🤪 Plus it gets hard to get time off through the end of the year, although I should take time off, because otherwise I will loose it before the end of the year.
Today. Feels like … December 6th.
Mostly cloudy.
Light and variable wind.
and
41 degrees
,
4:22 sunset.
Tonight. Feels like … November 7th.
A chance of showers, mainly after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with a temperature rising to around 42 by 5am.
South wind 5 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
and
34 degrees
,
7:11 sunrise.
Monday. Feels like … October 24th.
Showers, mainly after noon.
South wind 9 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
and
58 degrees
,
4:22 sunset.
Monday Night. Feels like … November 23rd.
Showers likely, mainly before 10pm. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy.
West wind 10 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
and
29 degrees
,
7:12 sunrise.
Tuesday. Feels like … December 22nd.
Mostly cloudy.
West wind 5 to 9 mph.
and
36 degrees
,
4:22 sunset.
Tuesday Night. Feels like … December 7th.
A chance of snow showers after 1am. Mostly cloudy.
Chance of precipitation is 30%.
and
25 degrees
,
7:12 sunrise.
Wednesday. Feels like … December 31st.
Snow showers likely, mainly after 1pm. Mostly cloudy.
Chance of precipitation is 60%.
and
34 degrees
,
4:21 sunset.
Wednesday Night. Feels like … December 17th.
A chance of snow showers before 1am. Mostly cloudy.
Drinking was kind of fun when I was young. But the by the time your pushing forty, that 18 pack lasted over a week when I camping in West Virginia. And when I went to that retirement party for a colleague on Thursday, I barely polished off a glass of wine. Drinking just isn’t the same when you get old.
Mostly cloudy and 32 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. Yesterday was cloudy, and so will be today and tomorrow, with rain coming. But once the rain is done, the skies will clear tomorrow around 9 pm.
Another kind of cold, cloudy day, ☁️ after a fairly cold one last night. I turned the heat up a few degrees last night and it’s much more comfortable in my apartment then it was yesterday, when everything was just so cold. ❄️ I could turn up the heat, as I make good money, but I hate to throw away money 💸 that I could be saving and investing for a better tomorrow. Today is going to be gone before you know it, better to focus on the future.
Yesterday, I spent much of the day experimenting with the plotly library, 📈 learning more about how to create inactive maps using plotly and d3js. I also did some projects with criminal justice data and experimenting with a new dark colored map, to change things up. I really like the compressed SVG output that I can get out of ggplot2 — it looks nice and is very tiny. Many of the SVG graphs I make up when compressed are under 15 KB which means they load super fast even over my metered connection.
I also went to the real library, 📚 although I didn’t get any books out — just went down there to hop on the internet for a while to work on the blog and some other things, and also to down load some videos to watch, although I really didn’t get much past the plotly beginners video before retiring to bed last night. 🛌 While I have a limited amount of bandwidth I can use over my phone hotspot or my phone itself, it’s kind of nice to not be having to watch the meter all of the time. 🤖 I could get internet at home, but not only is their the cost of the wired connection, there is the cost of electricity to run the cable modem, the route and to have the computer on all of the time. 🤳 Most of the things I need can be done with my $20 smartphone. I don’t need the fancy technology.
I am continuing to have issues with my computer occasionally trying to run updates over the phone hotspot, 📶 despite telling Network Manager that’s it’s a metered connection. I made a change to my slowing down script that will cause the internet to disconnect if the x11 server is idling more then 20 seconds, which should hopefully keep it from trying to updating when I’m down in the kitchen or bathroom. 🚽 I guess the metered connection option in Network Manager doesn’t work as well on Linux. 😠 I don’t think it’s apt-get that is updating though in the background — it’s Firefox acting badly. 🦁 Or maybe the CIA and the government workers. While the bandwidth wasted is less then 100 MB, I don’t like to waste any my bandwidth.
At least I won’t have to deal with grocery shopping or any fuel expenses for a while ⛽ having stocked my pantry up earlier in the week and because I’m not driving anywhere until I get the new tires on Wednesday installed on the truck and inspected hopefully on the Thursday or Friday. Only a week, but I will be glad when this long disaster is over.
West wind around 5 mph becoming light and variable in the afternoon.
and
39 degrees
,
4:22 sunset.
Sunday Night. Feels like … November 10th.
A chance of showers after 1am. Mostly cloudy.
South wind 6 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
and
33 degrees
,
7:11 sunrise.
Monday. Feels like … October 24th.
Showers likely before 1pm, then rain after 1pm. High near 58. South wind 10 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
and
58 degrees
,
4:22 sunset.
Monday Night. Feels like … December 3rd.
A chance of rain and snow showers before 11pm, then a chance of snow showers between 11pm and 1am. Partly cloudy.
Breezy. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
and
26 degrees
,
7:12 sunrise.
Tuesday. Feels like … December 26th.
Partly sunny.
and
35 degrees
,
4:22 sunset.
Tuesday Night. Feels like … December 14th.
A chance of snow after 1am. Mostly cloudy.
Chance of precipitation is 40%.
and
23 degrees
,
7:12 sunrise.
Wednesday. Feels like … December 26th.
Snow likely before 3pm, then rain and snow likely. Mostly cloudy.
Chance of precipitation is 70%.
and
35 degrees
,
4:21 sunset.
Wednesday Night. Feels like … December 21st.
Snow showers likely, mainly before 7pm. Mostly cloudy.
