Good morning! Clouds after the rain and 37 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a south-southeast breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. There are 6 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 11 pm. ☃️
It was raining ☔ out at six o’clock so I’m taking the earlier express bus 🚍 down from the Park and Ride and will walk 🚶 inside the Concourse before work. It looks like Saturday is going to be the challenging day to get in my steps especially if it rains most of the day rather than snow. I’ll do my best to keep up my progress though.
Today will rain likely, mainly before 10am. Mostly cloudy ⛅ , with a high of 46 degrees at 1pm. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 18th. South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming northwest 13 to 18 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph. So much for it being a bitterly cold weekend. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 24 degrees. The record high of 65 was set in 1991. 11.9 inches of snow fell back in 2018.❄
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:09 pm with sun having an altitude of 40.1° from the due south horizon (-30.7° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 7.1 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:08 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (255°). 📸
Walking 🚶 inside the the Plaza is fine but I’m hoping for some more sun ☀ by afternoon so I can walk outside maybe up to Washington Park 🏞 and get some fresh air. I probably could have walked outside this morning 🌅 but it’s always cold and windy 🌬️ on the Plaza whd this morning is just damp from the recent rain.
The sunset is in the west (261°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:46 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 56 seconds with dusk around 6:14 pm, which is one minute and 13 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the east-southeast (104°) at an altitude of 54° from the horizon, 251,768 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:47 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 41 degrees. Breezy, 20 mph breeze ⛅ from the west-northwest. Today will have 11 hours and 19 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 50 seconds over yesterday.
Yesterday was pretty much normal, 🤷♂️ quiet for a while at work then busy. I’m continuing to read 📖 and study up on machine learning. It’s in some ways a lot more boring 💤 than you might think but I’m leaning some interesting techniques for classifying data. I did enjoy the sun streaming into my office though in the morning. That won’t be the case today unfortunately.
Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 25 degrees at 6am. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 11th. Blustery, with a northwest wind 10 to 20 mph. In 2022, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 19 degrees. The record low of -10 occurred back in 1950.
Today in 1989, Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) 💢 by the end of the century. We’ve moved through a few generations of refrigerants now, with low global warming potential refrigerants the future. Believe it or not back in the day, CFCs were not regularly captured upon disposal, leaking the refrigerants into the atmosphere.
Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, snow before 10am, then snow showers, possibly mixed with rain between 10am and 1pm, then rain showers likely after 1pm. High near 38. East wind 6 to 11 mph becoming north in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 38. Typical average high for the weekend is 41 degrees.
Looking ahead, there are 8 weeks until Arbor Day 🌳 when the sun will be setting at 7:52 pm with dusk at 8:20 pm (Daylight Savings Time). Often I’m up in the Adirondacks that weekend but I’m thinking more Cazenovia for Easter Weekend. On that day in 2022, we had partly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 63 and 36 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 65 degrees. We hit a record high of 91 back in 1962.
Good morning! It’s the dire winter emergency according to the morning news. I mean there is some snow and ice on the secondary roads but the sidewalks are clear and I’m out for my morning walk on this Tuesday. 🚶
Overcast and 27 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁️There is a east-southeast breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. There is maybe 4 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at around 1 pm. 🌡️
So I was worried about the snow interfering with my morning walk 👣 but it stopped early and the sidewalks and roads are pretty much clear locally. Maybe it’s the valley snow shadow they were talking about. Truth is it’s a pretty nice morning, not real cold. But then again the average high for this time of year is 40. Depending on how much more snow we get later and how warm it gets today I could see wet sidewalks by evening and bare by tomorrow morning.
Maybe the express bus 🚍 from Voorheesville will be a bit late 🚏but I will get ready and watch it on the map 🗺 from inside and head out when it gets to Slingerlands. I live in the city, what do I care?
Today will snow, mainly before 4pm. 🌨 High of 33 degrees at 2pm. Six degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 8th. East wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total daytime snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning, which became mostly sunny by afternoon. The high last year was 41 degrees. The record high of 63 was set in 1903. 9.7 inches of snow fell back in 1948.❄
I had a slice of the corn bread I made up Sunday and some coffee ☕. Iron my shirt 👚 and shower 🚿 and head off to work. 🏢 And do the usual game. Yesterday I made hash browns in the oven from the farmers market potatoes 🥔 with an egg 🥚, some corn 🌽 and cheese 🧀.
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:09 pm with sun having an altitude of 39.4° from the due south horizon (-31.5° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 7.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:06 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (254°). 📸
The sunset is in the west (260°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:44 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 57 seconds with dusk around 6:11 pm, which is one minute and 14 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the southeast (136°) at an altitude of 70° from the horizon, 248,911 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:45 pm. At sunset, look for snow 🌨 and temperatures around 33 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Tomorrow will have 11 hours and 16 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 51 seconds over today.
Tonight will have a slight chance of snow before 8pm. Mostly cloudy 🌨, with a low of 20 degrees at 6am. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around February 25th. South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming northwest in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2022, we had light rain in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 17 degrees. The record low of -09 occurred back in 1948.
Not a particularly nice weekend on tap. 😞 Saturday, snow likely before 1pm, then a chance of rain showers. Cloudy, with a high near 39. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Sunday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 37. Typical average high for the zzzweekend is 41 degrees.
As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until First Day of Spring 💮 when the sun will be setting at 7:09 pm with dusk at 7:36 pm (Daylight Savings Time). On that day in 2022, we had sunny and temperatures between 63 and 25 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 47 degrees. We hit a record high of 78 back in 1921.
Good morning! Monday’s come back around again. Mostly clear 🌄 and a seasonably cold 23 degrees in Delmar, NY for the morning walk 🚶. There is a northwest breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. The current wind chill is 12. Just a reminder that it’s still winter. There are 2 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at around 1 pm. 🌡️
While it’s February for one more morning after today, 🌨 the sun is rising and the days getting longer. I guess we are getting snow tomorrow but Big Red is parked until Sunday and hopefully it won’t impact my morning walk come tomorrow. 👣 But onwards to a new week. I will bring my laptop home tomorrow in case it’s a work from home day due to the snow. I doubt it. 🤷♂️
Today will have increasing clouds ☀ 👉 ☁, with a high of 34 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 8th. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 44 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1997. 3.6 inches of snow fell back in 2019.❄
Smells like I have a dead mouse 🐭 in my apartment. I’ll have to see if I can figure out where it is. I just cleaned out the bucket trap last night so maybe it’s somewhere around there. Kind of chilly inside too – with yesterday’s warm sunny weather in the afternoon I backed the heat down and I felt that when I climbed out from the heated sheets this morning. ♨ I’m so ready to turn off the heat and have the windows open again. Such days might not be that far off.
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:09 pm with sun having an altitude of 39° from the due south horizon (-31.8° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 7.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:04 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (253°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (260°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:43 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 57 seconds with dusk around 6:10 pm, which is one minute and 15 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the south (171°) at an altitude of 73° from the horizon, 246,688 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:44 pm. At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 32 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Tomorrow will have 11 hours and 13 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 50 seconds over today.
I’m not sure if this is a pay week or not 💵 but after breakfast 🍳 it’s off to shower 🚿 iron my shirt 👚 and then the express downtown. 🏢 Make some money, save for a better tomorrow and keep moving forward. Spring isn’t that far off, within two months at least in the city things will be greening up. 🌸
Tonight will snow, mainly after 9pm. The snow could be heavy at times. 🌨 Low of 26 degrees at 6am. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 15th. Southeast wind 5 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 3 to 7 inches possible. In 2022, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 26 degrees. The record low of -10 occurred back in 1950.
It will snow or maybe it won’t. ❄ It’s winter for a few more whacks weeks. I think I cracked my skis 🎿 so I’m not sure if I can do much in the way of skiing but at this point I don’t really care. Who knows how much snow will be left come the weekend, it’s March and it won’t last long.
Coolbut sunny for the start of the weekend and then more clouds. 🌥 Saturday, partly sunny, with a high near 34. Sunday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 37. Typical average high for the weekend is 41 degrees. In like a lion 🦁.
Looking ahead, there are 6 weeks until 8 PM Dusk 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 7:32 pm with dusk at 8:00 pm (Daylight Savings Time). On that day in 2022, we had partly cloudy, warm temperatures and temperatures between 74 and 49 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 57 degrees. We hit a record high of 86 back in 1922.
Good evening! Partly clear and 31 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ There is a west-northwest breeze at 14 mph. 🍃. There are 3 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 1 pm. 🌡️
22,000 steps or 11 miles today which isn’t too bad. 👣 Been averaging 9 miles walked per day which is pretty good. 🍏 I’ve also added a lot of apples and oranges and other fruits to my diet and keep trying to bolster the amount of vegetables that I’m eating at every meal.
Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 21 degrees at 6am. Typical for tonight. Maximum wind chill around 13 at 6am; Northwest wind 9 to 14 mph. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 30 degrees. The record low of -13 occurred back in 1940.
Sunday lunch at the Vietnam 🇻🇳 Restaurant for my dad’s birthday 🎂 was good. Seemed healthy but tasty too. I was able to bring home a portion that I can reheat later in the week. It also inspired me to buy some rice 🍚 to cook at home as it’s a healthy meal. 🍴
Tonight will have a First Quarter 🌓 Moon with 47% illuminated. At 8 PM, the moon was in the west-southwest (247°) at an altitude of 54° from the horizon, some 244,291 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by August 31st. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Worm 🐛 Moon is on Tuesday, March 7.
Earlier on this evening 🌃 Venus and Jupiter were in a perfect line and bright in the sky. I could see them clearly under the bright lights of the Delaware Plaza when I did my weekly shop 🏪 mostly for fruits and vegetables. I also dropped off my laundry at the laundromat 👚 and got that done. Big Red is parked for the week. 🛻 I might clean the snow off him tomorrow night just so there is less snow to deal with come Sunday.
The darkest hour is at 12:09 am, followed by dawn at 6:09 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:37 am in the east-southeast (101°) and last for 2 minutes and 57 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 34 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:16 am with sun in the east-southeast (108°).Tonight will have 12 hours and 50 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 50 seconds over last night.
Tomorrow will have increasing clouds ☀ 👉 ☁, with a high of 35 degrees at 2pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around February 13th. Calm wind becoming southeast around 6 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 44 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1997. 3.6 inches of snow fell back in 2019.❄
In four weeks on March 26 the sun will be setting in the west (274°) at 7:15 pm (Daylight Savings Time),🌄 which is one hour, 33 minutes and 16 seconds later then tonight. In 2021 on that day, we had cloudy skies, warm conditions, mist and temperatures between 75 and 44 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 49 and 29 degrees. The record high of 75 degrees was set back in 2021.
Looking ahead, Daylight Savings Time 🌆 is in two weeks, Last Day of Winter 🏂 is in 3 weeks, 7:30 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 6 weeks, Average High is 60 🌷 is in 7 weeks, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 10 weeks, Mothers Day 👩 is in 11 weeks, Fathers Day 👨 is in 15 weeks, Last Sunset After 8:30 PM 🌆 is in 20 weeks, National Dog Day 🐩 is in 6 months, 6:30 Sunrise 🌇 is in 28 weeks, Constitution Day 📜 is in 29 weeks, October 🎃 is in 31 weeks, Average High is 65 🍂 is in 32 weeks, 7:15 AM Sunrise ⌛️ is in 41 weeks, Christmas Eve 🎅 is in 43 weeks and Boxing Day 🥊 is in 10 months.
I think it’s so obnoxious how Donald Trump and others are making such a big deal about the chemical spill in East Palatine. Toxic chemicals are everywhere in the modern world, they’re dumped, flared, burned and released into the air constantly mostly in a lawful fashion.
One shot spills of toxic chemicals pose some immediate risk and the accute and immediate risks are real. That’s why they have emergency procedures, take safe guards for workers and those in immediate risk of accute exposure. But the globe is a big place, pollution quickly dilutes and falls back to background levels fairly quickly.
Scare mongering does nobody any good and it harms public health – both psychologically for those who live nearby causing placebo effects and making people will themselves into sickness. When you are looking for a monster in every shadow you are likely to find one. Whether it’s caused by a one shot toxic release is much harder to prove.
The politicians will talk about doing something to make trains safer when hauling toxic loads, in hope that wins over some voters by doing something, probably meaningless. But it will create good jobs for the bureaucrats and the paper pushers and those that make random safety components that are unlikely to stop the next toxic disaster.
You make toxic chemicals you’re going to spill them. No safety system is 100%, machinery and the human operators often fail in complicated and unpredictable ways. You can be careful and be heavily regulated but systems always fail given enough time. You want to avoid the next spill you got to stop making the precursors to dangerous chemistries.
People reacted so negatively when I pointed out on Facebook a while that any one year is meaningless, some are good some bad. But decades are much more meaningful and accumulated actions matter much more than one off. A single chemical spill but over time toxic emissions from factories are a far bigger concern. Regulated emissions.
Fear should never drive public policy. Rational thought, considering cumulative effects should decide what is right or wrong. If statistics show a lot of toxic chemicals are being released into the atmosphere causing harm then you should act. Otherwise, it’s just a meaningless one off.
Franklin County and the greater Malone area is fairly upland, with many areas with largest forested areas. As such many people do heat their homes primarily with wood. That said, it's a lot of work to heat with wood, although it can be inexpensive source of energy if you have land. Many people and farms who heat their whole house with wood use those wood furnaces that heat water by running it through a jacket around an outdoor firebox.
Good morning! Happy Sunday ⛪. I like taking a break from the blog on Saturday. Mostly cloudy and 19 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. There are 4 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at around 11 am. 🌡️
Yesterday was a cold and snowy day. 🌨 Not a lot of snow but clouds are and flurries most of the day. I did my usual walk 🚶 out Meads Lane and Five Rivers Environmental Education. It was cold at times. And I did some research on machine learning techniques to predict various things. 🤖
Today will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a high of 41 degrees at 2pm. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 3rd. South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west 11 to 16 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 26 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 39 degrees. The record high of 63 was set in 1976. 8.4 inches of snow fell back in 1972.❄
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:09 pm with sun having an altitude of 38.6° from the due south horizon (-32.2° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 7.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:03 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (252°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (259°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 5:41 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 57 seconds with dusk around 6:09 pm, which is one minute and 15 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the First Quarter 🌓 Moon in the south-southwest (203°) at an altitude of 69° from the horizon, 244,081 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:42 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 38 degrees. There will be a west-northwest breeze at 15 mph with gusts up to 25mph. Today will have 11 hours and 8 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 49 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will be mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear ☁, with a low of 20 degrees at 6am. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around February 25th. Northwest wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 30 degrees. The record low of -13 occurred back in 1940.
Looking ahead, there are 2 weeks until Daylight Savings Time 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 6:59 pm with dusk at 7:25 pm (Daylight Savings Time). On that day in 2022, we had partly sunny and temperatures between 60 and 30 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 44 degrees. We hit a record high of 69 back in 2012.
