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.
Cloudy and 65 degrees. Later 51 degrees with rain showers. Surprisingly not that humid this evening despite the showers that are around tonight. Possibly thunderstorm later. Cloudy start to tomorrow with a breeze, warming up to a seasonable 61 with more sun later. Dawn at 5:29 AM and sunrise at 5:59. First sunrise of the year before 6 AM. Days are definitely getting longer. 13 hours and 45 minutes between sunrise and sunset.
I hope you had a good Earth Day, regardless of how clique it has become in recent years. I walked nearly five miles – walking is probably the single best thing you can do for the environment. When you walk you not only don’t burn fossil fuels, you improve your health and the health of the environment. People talk a lot about the impact of burning fossil fuels but it’s de minis compared to highway construction and use. Cars have an enormous impact on the environment. Walking around your town helps you understand it better.
Tomorrow I’m thinking about walking out to Five Rivers Environmental Education Center, then driving down to the Hudson River and doing some fishing down at the river. I also got to head to store. Maybe wash the caked on mud off my truck. Start packing and planning for my trip.
I just dethroned fellow bus rider Colleen as mayor of the CDTA Park and Ride this morning. It took 80 check-ins every morning I walked down there at the Park and Ride. Much needed rain continues to come down, wetting down the landscape and helping to keep things turning green on this Earth Day. As I write this, the bus is departing the station.
As a practical matter I probably shouldn’t have walked down to the bus stop in the rain. But it not raining that hard, but the lighter rain is more likely to absorb into the ground rather than run off.
Today is Earth Day. I don’t have any real plans for it but as its raining and I need to return a library book, I’ll probably go down to the library after work. Today in 1970, the first Earth Day was celebrated.
Memorial Day Weekend gets underway in five weeks. Now that things are greening up in the city, I can envision nicer weather going forward.
Traffic this morning is somewhat backed up going downtown but still moving decently. I’m not driving and are in no rush to get to work. There is a lane closure and a lot of tapping of brakes as people navigate the merge.
Staying I town this weekend but I will do some fishing and some short local hikes and obviously packing and getting my gear ready so I can have my truck all ready when I get out of work on Tuesday, hopefully before 5.
Back today in 1977, Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic. Fiber optic cable is the primary way that phone traffic and Internet traffic moves today. Also on the telecommunications front in 1993, the Mosaic Browser 1.0 was released. It would become Netscape and Firefox later on.
Good morning! Happy Earth Day. It’s also Friday. Yeah. Rain and 60 degrees right now outside. Showers on and off all day, the heaviest rain may occur midday. They are getting more rain to the north of the city but that could change. 75 degrees expected this afternoon.
Bring a rain coat today. The best way to celebrate Earth Day is with earth aka mud and to have mud, you need rain. A muddy truck trail or dirt road awaits you in the wilderness.
Showers are likely tonight with a low around 51. Decreasing clouds and 61 for Saturday and sunny and 60 for Sunday.
Have a great Earth Day and enjoy playing with the Unemployment Rate Map.
Good evening. Mostly cloudy on this night with the April Pink Moon overhead, given a soft wispy glow behind the clouds. Mild around 68 degrees around ten o’clock hour. Right now I’m sitting out back enjoying a cold one before I head back in shortly to watch the PBS Newshour and retire to bed.
I am hoping we get some good rain tomorrow so things aren’t so dry. Red flag conditions today but a 70% chance of showers come morning and likely showers by afternoon tomorrow. Up to a quarter inch of rain, which admittedly isn’t much but better than nothing. 75 degrees for the high tomorrow. I may end up changing my camping plans to go to another location if it stays so dry, as I like having a good campfire but not when it’s bone dry and you have to worry about embers kicking up a fire. While residential brush burns are banned camp fires are allowed unless it gets much drier but expect it will green up, especially in the Finger Lakes. Had the Pete Grannis gotten his way, all open burning would have been banned back in 2009.
Tonight we are looking at a low around 56 degrees. That’s more of what is to be expected around June 9th then late April but so be it.
So I got the propane campstove I’ve been researching for a while now. While not a big purchase at about $100, I had been planning on getting a good quality propane stove I could run off the propane tank that I bought for the Big Buddy Heater. I figured I would get the stove once it was warm enough to not need the heater on in the morning as its not going to be useful at the same time. I ended up getting a Camp Chef Everett Stove, their most powerful tabletop stove with a maximum BTU of 20,000 per burner which is twice as hot as a base propane stove. I had studied the reviews and was quite pleased with it when I got it out of the box. I cooked some sausages on it and it sure heated them up fast in water but also ratcheted down well to prevent burning. I do need to get another propane hose so I can use it at the same time as the lantern.
I’m getting excited about my Finger Lakes trip. Tuesday will be hear before you know it. This is the first big trip I’ve taken since West Virginia last fall. The later sunsets combined with nicer weather should lead to one of best trips I’ve taken in a while. I hope to catch many fish, have some fun paddling, do some hiking and seeing some great wildlife at Montezuma.
I will do a fair amount of packing this weekend and will put the kayak on my truck on Sunday. Monday evening is the Young Democrats meeting, so I won’t have a lot of time to pack on Monday evening, and I plan to leave for my trip right from work. I will buy most of my groceries and supplies out in the Finger Lakes.
I continue to take full advantage of my hacked version of the MMQGIS plug-in to export KML maps from QGIS. While QGIS has long had KML export it didn’t have the ability to attach the color ramp to the export. Then I can adjust and set the color ramp in QGIS rather than do it programmatically outside of the program. Tomorrow’s map will pull data from the NYS’ Local Area Unemployment Statistics data. More census data next week. I love the ease I can toy away with color ramps with KML now like I could only previously do with static maps. Mapping and working with data can be best summed up with – It’s fun.
Went down to the park this evening but because I was playing with the stove didn’t get there until fairly late. And with the clouds dusk came early. At least it was mild.
I’m tired and off to bed. Dawn tomorrow is 5:30 am and sunrise at 6 AM. Sleep well and enjoy tomorrow – it’s Earth Day.
Good evening. 78 degrees with a lot of high clouds that are replacing the blue with some gray and kicking up a lot of glare. More clouds creeping in later but otherwise fairly mild. Chance of showers and a low around 56 degrees.
Traffic is moving along well on 787. I almost missed my bus day dreaming about West Virginia and Harriet Tubbman. It’s a long story but I think Tubbman could have saved time and money by taking I-99 rather than the Jersey Turnpike.
Full moon tonight. It’s the Pink Moon named after the Pinkster Bushes that bloom around the Full Moon in April The moon is at its fullest stage at 1:24 AM. At that point the sky will be mostly overcast.
Cinco de Mayo is two weeks away. Average temperature is 66 degrees which seems mild compared to today . But we will see, it could be significantly warmer. In contrast, the sun will set the at 8:01 pm regardless of the weather.
It’s a chilly start to the morning at 43 degrees but it will warm up to 75 degrees or heck maybe 80 degrees. Lots of high clouds this morning but still some blue skies, more clouds later. Still going to be a quite nice day. Showers and 74 degrees for Friday and clearing with temperatures around 60 for the weekend. The rain is needed and should accelerate the technicolor transition well underway in parts of the city.
Sunset at 7:45 pm. Looking for mostly cloudy skies and 65 degrees at sunset. Dusk is at 8:15. Plan accordingly for a mild evening. Full moon tonight.
Today in 1960 Brasília, Brazil’s capital, is officially inaugurated. At 09:30, the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro. Nelson Rockefeller is said to have taken inspiration from Brasilia in construction of the South Mall, sometimes known as Brasilia on the Hudson. I think the Empire State Plaza has aged better but it was a somewhat less ambitious of a project.
Happy Birthday to John Muir. Regardless of what you think of the late environmentalist, he was a force in land preservation. He got people thinking about conservation even if his ideas were somewhat misguided.
It’s going to be a nice one. Get out and enjoy it.
While tonight is not quite the full moon — the Pink Moon — tomorrow is the full moon early on Friday morning 1:24 AM — the moon is pretty big and full over Albany.
We are at 46 degrees under clear skies tonight with no wind and a dew point at 16 for a relative humidity level of 23%. Spring time can be quite dry this time of year. 37 degrees for a low.
Tonight was the Save the Pine Bush Dinner. We had a very interesting speaker from Northern Quebec who talked about the impacts that hydropower dams and damming up rivers more generally are having on their community.
A little while ago I was heading home on the Route 18, listening to Day by Day from the Godspell sound track. It sounds very late 1960, because it is. Tomorrow is Thursday.
In three weeks it will be Twilight Zone Day when the Civil Twilight will conclude at 8:39, in other words dusk. Until recently I didn’t realize that most normal people call the end of twilight a time known as dusk. I guess there is a lot of things to learn.
Really looking forward to vacation next week in Central New York, then Finger Lakes and down in Pennsylvania. Should be a pretty nice trip assuming all goes fairly smoothly. It’s been a long time since I’ve spent much time out of town.
The landlord fixed the sink so it’s no longer dripping. One less thing to worry about. Now I don’t have keep things clean and organized as much. Also won’t get blamed for ignoring a leak. Glad that’s off my plate.
Now the weather looks increasingly nice for my trip next week. Tuesday is the worst day of the week but clearing by afternoon. Might be cold enough to actually warrant bringing the big buddy heater for nights by the fire, but that’s to be expected in late April. I think it still will be somewhat green in the Finger Lakes. I’m sure I’ll have to refill the propane while camping but I’m sure I can find a place that refills propane like Tractor Supply Company.
I got my CDTA Navigator Card. Right now I’ll only use it occasionally when my discount bus pass expires. I will fill it with 15 bucks for now, so have it ready to go and not have to worry about carrying cash for a bus fare.
Now watching the PBS Newshour, but pretty soon will retire for the night. Tomorrow should be mostly sunny and 75 degrees. A nice spring day for sure. Looking forward to it.
