Good morning! Happy Tuesday. 15 degrees and sunny this morning. Tied with the record for 1982 for the cold. With the wind chill is five degrees and a 7 mph north wind.
Today’s high will be 36 degrees and sunny with a breeze in the north that will keep the wind chill around 20 degrees for most of the day. The bright April sun will help with the cold and encourage the snow to melt. Mostly clear and 17 degrees tonight.
Have a great day!
Kind of a sloppy morning with light snow coming down and an inch of slush on the sidewalks. Albany city streets are snow covered, because if God put it there, he’ll take it away. Other streets are slushy. Currently 23 degrees at the 9 o’clock hour. Snow continues until midday when cloudy skies will start to prevail. 34 degrees for the high. Sunset in about ten hours at 7:26 pm.
It was a pretty quiet weekend for me, although I was able to get the frig cleaned out and the kitchen scrubbed up. Never got the bottles and cans to the transfer station. I didn’t do much hiking except to walk down to the park. Sunday was frigid. All week is expected to be cold with heavy rain by the end of the week. So no going to the park after work this week.
Today in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated by prison escapee James Earl Ray using a stolen Remington 700 30-06 bolt action hunting rifle. James Earl Ray alluded authorities for a while using a fake Canadian passport. Also today in 1973, the World Trade Center was formally dedicated. The often controversial set of buildings had a high vacancy rate for their first two decades but tenancy increased during the dot com boom. They would be destroyed by the September 11th terrorist attacks.
Have a great Monday. The weekend will here before you know it.
A cloudy morning with some light snow coming down this morning. Last night we got about an inch or two of snow and it’s currently 24 degrees. Locally the roads are just wet but apparently there are some delays on the major expressways heading into the city.
Today for the first half of the day, looking at another 1-2 inches of snow possible. Snow squalls at time could reduce visibility on highways but most roads should just be wet. Looking at a cloudy day with a high around 34 degrees. That’s 17 degrees below normal for the day. All week will be cold but for the second half of the week it will be a lot of cold rain and not snow.
So far no snow but still a pretty cold Sunday for the first week of April. We did have a good dusting of snow on the grass this morning but it melted away by midday. Clarksville South Road was salted as you head up Derbyshire Hill but other than that not a lot of road salt. My parents reported snow squalls I need Dormansville. But that may change tomorrow.
Currently 28 degrees in Delmar under cloudy skies. Snow comes in around 3 AM. Sunrise I’d at 6:30 AM. 2 inches expected by the morning commute and another two inches by mid afternoon. Snow tapers off by evening but it will be cold enough that it probably will not all melt away tomorrow like today. 33 degrees for a high on Monday – that’s typically the average low for this time of year. Monday night may drop to 16 degrees which is only two degrees above the record low of 14 set back in 1954. Cold weather expected all week.
Sunday dinner at my parents house tonight. They cooked up soup and cheese bread. It was really tasty. Skipped my evening walk tonight. Watched the PBS Newshour Weekend this evening that I had previously taped. Apparently the Newshour Weekend program is only a half hour long. Put away my clothes and made my bed while watching. Then watched a review of the Chevy Volt that I downloaded from YouTube. What a neat car. It can run more than 53 miles entirely on battery then automatically starts a generator to charge the batteries and power the motors. I hope the technology makes it too mass produced cars, especially big pickup trucks. I’d love to creep through the woods with my motor off, use regenerative braking going down the mountains, and use cheap electricity tooling around town. It is the future for sure, which hopefully will get beyond this wiz bang auto for techy environmentalists.
Good night. I hope you had a good weekend even though it was so darn chilly.
Good morning. A cold start this morning with the thermometer at the Man Cave reading 35 degrees outside under mostly sunny skies. You can hear the wind roaring around this morning with winds speeding along at 15 mph with gusts around 25. There is a dusting of snow on the ground from last night when the temperature reached only about 32.
The rest of the day will be sunny but very cold for early April. 36 degrees is high for the day. 18 degrees below normal for the high. Very windy this afternoon with sustained winds around 30 mph and gusts up to 55 mph. High wind warning. The wind may get a speeding ticket today. Hold on to your steering wheel when venturing out today. The wind chill will be between 18 and 20 degrees most of the day.
At 7 pm we expect temperatures to drop to 31 degrees under Partly Cloudy skies. Blustery evening with sustained winds around 30 mph and gusts up to 55 mph. Sunset tonight at 7:24 pm with darkness around 7:53 for 12 hours and 53 minutes of daylight. Going to be a cold one for sure.
Going to be a cold week all week. Thursday will reach 53 degrees and rainy but that’s still 2 degrees below normal, and the rest of the days will be 10-15 degrees below normal with highs in the 30s and 40s.
Today in 2000, Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping “an oppressive thumb” on its competitors. Ten years later in 2010, Apple releases the iPad. Apparently Microsoft’s dominance wasn’t that powerful.
Not going to do much outside stuff today due to the frigid conditions. Probably do some cleaning and some coding and/or mapping this afternoon. Going out to mom and dad’s house for Sunday dinner later this afternoon.
Driving back from the grocery store, I looked out my windshield and it looked like a blizzard. Just a snow squall and at this point the thermometer in my window says it’s still 43 degrees so much too warm for snow.
Snow is coming tonight and I think we will have at least 2-3 inches by the time it winds down in the morning. How much that will stick is another question. 30 degrees for the low. The chance for snow diminishes as the day progresses, and more sun plus a high around 37 degrees will melt most of the snow away. Another 2-3 inches is expected for early Monday morning but it shouldn’t impact your weekend plans. Sunrise tomorrow at 6:31 AM.
Discovered that you can download detailed labor statistics from the Department of Labor’s website for mapping, that can be used mapping. Unemployment rate and labor force size can be found at the county and municipal level (greater than 25,000 persons) back to 1990. Statewide statistics go back to 1970. All in a series of CSV files easily imported into Microsoft Excel or mapping programs like QGIS.
Yesterday I left my contracts in, as I couldn’t find my contact holder. My eyes were irritated by morning. So I went to ShopRite and bought a contact holder this evening. I also had a sweet tooth and I wanted something sweet to eat. I have been enjoying frozen fruit a lot lately, so I bought some more frozen blueberries and a big container of Greek yogurt. Talk about a treat. I thought about buying Cool Whip originally but non-fat yogurt is so much healthier. And that Greek stuff has such a nice consistency.
Good night. Be safe if you’re heading out on the roads early this morning, they may be slick.
Good evening! There was no weather report this morning, because I was recovering from a crazy week at work. It was a pretty cloudy morning, but this evening has really cleared out with a modest breeze and temperatures around 52 degrees in Delmar. Mostly clear as I sit down at the town park listening to the birds. Sunset tonight is at 7:23 PM with darkness around 7:53 PM. At times the breeze is a bit cool, but all and all a pretty nice evening in the park. Waning Crescent Moon with about 30% visible after 2:42, although I suspect the clouds and snow will block views of the moon.
We expect some pretty big changes in the weather come tonight. Sometime after midnight, we are expecting it to snow, leaving about 2-3 inches of snow on the ground in the morning. Tonight won’t be super cold, but it will be a few degrees below average with temperatures expecting to drop to around 30 degrees. It may start out as rain but will turn to snow. It’s not clear how much will stick to pavement, and indeed the ground may be warm enough that a lot won’t accumulate, at least to start out. Tomorrow will be frigid with temperatures expected to only reach 35 degrees. In early April, a typical night only reaches 32 degrees for the low, and the high is typically 53 degrees.
Possibly more snow for late Sunday night into early Monday morning. We could have a brief period of slippery roads early Monday with plenty of the root of all evil road salt. We are looking at about 3 inches of snow on Monday, the bulk of it coming in the day time. The low Sunday will be 23 degrees, which is only 7 degrees above the record low of 16 degrees set back in 1954. The snow won’t last or be a persistent hazard on the roads, as temperatures will reach 37 degrees on Monday — 16 degrees below normal, but still warm enough to melt snow even without deicing.
The cold blast that we are getting starting tonight will be with us at least through Friday, with the average temperature 10-20 degrees below normal, especially during the day. Many nights will be cold, but the night time temperatures will moderate by the second half of the week. You’ll need your heat on for at least another week, but at least most of the winter has been fairly moderate.