Seasons

Shorter Days, the Farther You Go North

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Today is the first day of winter …

Staten Island, NY has the longest daylight in New York today, 9 hours, 16 minutes and 17 seconds.

Length of Day: 9 hours, 16 minutes and 17 seconds
Sunrise: 7:17 am
Sunset: 4:33 pm
Transit of the Sun: 11:55 am
Dawn: 6:46 am
Dusk:  5:04 pm
Nautical Twilight Begins: 06:11 am
Nautical Twilight Ends: 05:38 pm
Astronomic Twilight Begins: 05:38 am
Astronomic Twilight Ends: 06:11 pm

Massena, NY has the shortest daylight, 8 hours, 46 minutes and 25 seconds.

Length of Day: 8 hours, 46 minutes and 25 seconds
Sunrise: 7:34 am
Sunset: 4:21 pm
Transit of the Sun: 11:58 am
Dawn: 7:01 am
Dusk: 4:54 pm
Nautical Twilight Begins: 6:23 am
Nautical Twilight Ends: 5:32 pm
Astronomic Twilight Begins: 5:48 am
Astronomic Twilight Ends: 6:07 pm

Remembering the Ice Storm ’08

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Notes on the Re-Run for Tuesday, December 6th.

— Andy

Throughout Friday, freezing rain, sleet, and snow came down, covering the State Capitol and surrounding building with a layer of ice.

Snow Capitol

The ice weighted down trees and made everything look “wet”, but it did not pile up all fluffy like we think of snow being.

Snow Across Hudson

Here are the Heldeberg Mountains covered with ice and beauty.

Heldebergs in Ice

The next morning walking through the woods, covered with ice and beauty at Cole Hill State Forest.

Ice Beauty

The swamp at Cole Hill was just shimmering in light.

Ice Swamp

While driving the pickup for a while got the ice melted off the doors, it kept freezing shut, and I had to keep cracking the ice off the doors.

Pickup with Ice

Ice on a Pine Tree at Thatcher Park.

Ice Pine

Branches covered with ice where so pretty.

Ice Limbs

Even when it was on the power lines and knocked out power to thousands.

Ice on Power Lines

The Ice Storm of 2008 was so beautiful, even if it did knock out power and close down roads.

I was so chilled through at home I took a long time to get out and hiking today

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I was so chilled through at home I took a long time to get out and hiking today. 😨

I should have turned up the heat this morning, I make good money but I got my first winter heating bill yesterday and I wasn’t prepared to spend much more money.

I am not ready for winter. Maybe if I had a small cabin and a wood stove for heat I’d feel different about the winter. But with no real snow fall this winter yet and relatively mild weather predicted I just find it hard to accept its already winter.

It supposedly is around 50 degrees outside but it feels much colder on the Dickinson Hill Fire Tower. It probably is. But I like the views and looking out at the rural countryside at the farms, the forests and the mountains. The not pretty land but the rough and cold land that waits for spring time to come. 

Snow Depth – Sunday December 12

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Last night’s rain along with warmer temperatures have really put a damper on the snow outside of the highest peaks in the Green Mountains and Western Adirondacks. ⛄ And it doesn’t look much new snow is on the way.