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February 11, 2018 Night

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Good evening! Light rain and 37 degrees in Delmar.☔ Calm wind. Finally we are well above freezing and the threat of ice is past us. The skies will clear tomorrow around 9 am.

Tonight will have scattered rain showers before 4am, then a slight chance of rain and snow showers. Areas of dense fog before midnight. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low of 31 degrees at 6am.☁ 13 degrees above normal. Calm wind becoming north 5 to 8 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. In 2017, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 23 degrees. The record low of -16 occurred back in 1979.

Tonight will have a Waning Crescent Moon with 12% illuminated. 🌙The moon will rise tomorrow at 4:50 am. The New Moon is on Wednesday night with a chance of showers then chance of rain/snow. The Snow Moon is on Wednesday, February 28th. The sun will rise at 6:56 am with the first light at 6:27 am, which is one minute and 19 seconds earlier than yesterday. Tonight will have 13 hours and 31 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 38 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high of 33 degrees at 1pm.🌞One degree below normal. Breezy, with a northwest wind 9 to 14 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the morning. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 31 degrees. The record high of 55 was set in 1932. 13.5 inches of snow fell back in 1988.

Next weekend looks like it might be perfect weather-wise, well as perfect as a February weekend could be. 😎Next Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 31. Next Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 42. Typical average high for the weekend is 35 degrees.🌞

In four weeks on March 11 the sun will be setting at 6:58 pm (Daylight Savings Time), which is one hour, 34 minutes and 42 seconds later then tonight.😍 In 2017 on that day, we had snow, cloudy skies and temperatures between 22 and 7 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 42 and 24 degrees. The record high of 70 degrees was set back in 1977.

My Arduino based GPS trip logger  is done for all practical purposes, although I want to make up a more permanent power supply and package it up discretely in a yogurt cup. It’s nice, it records my exact location within 6 feet, elevation, speed of travel, direction of travel, time and date, every second. 80 characters or bytes per second works out to be 2.5 gigabytes per year, assuming that I never shut it off. It uses a 8 gigabyte MicroSD card for logging.  I fixed the VMS time and countdown display  system, just by switching the Vin pin to the 5v pin. No more crashing with a slight voltage drop. 

I got out grocery shopping today which was good, as eventually the ice melted and I was once again low on supplies. 🍝🍳🍎🌽🍄

Looking ahead, Winnie the Pooh Day is in 1 week, 🍯Average High is 40 is in 3 weeks, Daylight Savings Time is a month away, April Fools Day and Easter is in 7 weeks, 👩Mothers Day is in 13 weeks, Fathers Day is in 18 weeks👨, Daylight Savings Time Ends in 38 weeks,😸 Veterans Day (Sunday) is in 9 months and First Sunday of Advent is in 42 weeks.

😎Only 102 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!😎

February 11, 2018 7:48 am Update

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While most modern automobiles have been metricized, strangely enough through-hole electronics are still built around 1/10th inch spacing (which is often referred to as 2.54 mm).

Granted, through-hole technology is used primarily by hobbyists in this day of age, but it’s still hilarious how perf board, DIP headers, dupont wires and most other things are still built around 1/10th inch spacing.