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I am old enough to remember when the average high during the dog days summer in was 83 degrees, with the 1981-2010 climate normals for Albany. 🏖

Nowadays, it’s 85 degrees, according to the 1991-2020 climate normals.
 
Probably in ten years when the 2001-2030 normals come out, we will be talking about normal high temperature for Albany during the dog days of summer being an average of 87 degrees.
 
Come 2050, maybe the dog days of summer will mean an average of temperatures of 90 degrees.
 

April 13, 2021 9 AM Update

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Today’s sunset will be at 7:36 pm.

Then we continue to add daylight to evening each night until late June, usually around the 26th when both the morning and evening slowly starts to loose daylight as we start the long fade back to winter.

7:45 pm sunset – Wednesday, April 21
8:00 pm sunset – Tuesday, May 4
8:15 pm sunset – Tuesday, May 18
8:30 pm sunset – Saturday, June 5
8:15 pm sunset – Friday, July 16
8:00 pm sunset – Sunday, August 1
7:45 pm sunset – Thursday, August 12
7:30 pm sunset – Sunday, August 22

Evening in Tower

I was reading New York City is bringing back their workforce starting on May 1st

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I was reading New York City is bringing back their workforce starting on May 1st. I probably should figure on being back in the office starting then too, and things getting closer back to normal. I guess I’m fine with that, it will be a much more normal summer I expect, and I am glad with that. I can get rid of hotspot Internet at home, no more fussing around in library parking lots and relying on solar to make it through a busy day at work. Piseco-Powley Road should be open from the south again this year, meaning many more weekends spent up at Potholers and also it looks like the Mine Kill Pool will be renovated and I will be able to swim there too.

While all the remote work was fun the year that was, I am the first admit it really sucked at Piseco-Powley Road was closed. Maybe it wasn’t all bad — for one the southern entrance being closed due to that bad October 2019 storm — probably kept rowdy crowds out that could of damaged things because of the long detour through Piseco. The woods was popular, and litter was a problem everywhere, just because the mauls and many less socially-distanced activities were not available this year. But I bet things will return a lot closer to normal this year.

Risk & Disaster : Planet Money : NPR

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SUMMER SCHOOL 8: Risk & Disaster : Planet Money : NPR

When you buy insurance, the company sends you a long, detailed, almost incomprehensible description of your policy on thin paper. In very small print.

It's rare for anyone to read it from start to finish...and unheard of for a podcast to read it out loud. But today, we go there. In this episode of Summer School, we take Jacob Goldstein's home insurance policy and delve into each sub-paragraph and bullet point. And we find something surprising: the history of risk, disaster and bad behavior.