September 28, 2020 Night

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Good evening! Partly clear and 67 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a south-southeast breeze at 10 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 64 degrees.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 63 degrees at 4am. 17 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 64 at 11pm. South wind around 10 mph. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 51 degrees. The record low of 29 occurred back in 2000.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon with 93% illuminated. At 11 PM, the moon was in the south (179°) at an altitude of 34° from the horizon, some 246,454 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by April 3rd. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Hunter 🏹 Moon is on Thursday, October 1. The darkest hour is at 12:47 am, followed by dawn at 6:22 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:50 am in the east (92°) and last for 2 minutes and 54 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 6 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:28 am with sun in the east (99°). Tonight will have 12 hours and 9 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers, mainly after noon. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 73 degrees at 1pm. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 15th. Maximum dew point of 66 at 11am. South wind 8 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. It became humid as the day progressed. The high last year was 69 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 1921.

In four weeks on October 26 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (253°) at 5:56 pm,🌄 which is 45 minutes and 36 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly sunny, patches of fog and temperatures between 58 and 44 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 56 and 37 degrees. The record high of 78 degrees was set back in 1963.

Looking ahead, Columbus Day 🛥️ is in 2 weeks, Average High is 55 🍂 is a month away, Small Business Saturday 🛍️ is in 2 months, Cyber Monday 🛍️ and Beaver Moon 🌕| 0 is in 9 weeks, First Day of Winter ☃️ is in 12 weeks, 4:30 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 3 months, Winnie the Pooh Day 🍯 is in 16 weeks, Martin Luther King Day 🖤 is in 16 weeks, 5 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 17 weeks, Wolf Moon 🌕 is in 4 months and February 🌧 is in 18 weeks.

Swamp Near Indian Lake

Fort Disney on the Hudson | News | troyrecord.com

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Don Rittner: Fort Disney on the Hudson | News | troyrecord.com

The state and city blew it once before when Fort Orange was rediscovered in 1968 by historian John Wolcott. Wolcott had pinpointed the site on a 1790 map drawn by Simeon Dewitt, a meticulous Albany surveyor.

Wolcott submitted his map to a Department of Transportation official and Paul Huey, an archeologist who later oversaw the Fort Orange excavations.

Wolcott's map helped Huey convince DOT to allow excavations, although DOT confined them to a small wedge of property.

Excavations occurred from September 1970 to March 1971. About 10 percent of the entire fort was excavated, according to a map published by Huey in the Dutch journal KNOB in Amsterdam in 1985.

Blast From the Past

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Blast From the Past

Shortly before sunrise on Sept. 22, 1979, a U.S. surveillance satellite known as Vela 6911 recorded an unusual double flash as it orbited the earth above the South Atlantic. At Patrick Air Force Base in Florida, where it was still nighttime on Sept. 21, the staff in charge of monitoring the satellite’s transmissions saw the unmistakable pattern produced by a nuclear explosion—something U.S. satellites had detected on dozens of previous occasions in the wake of nuclear tests. The Air Force base issued an alert overnight, and President Jimmy Carter quickly called a meeting in the White House Situation Room the next day.

Massachusetts highway exit numbers to change in October to reflect mileage-based denominations to meet federal mandate – masslive.com

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Massachusetts highway exit numbers to change in October to reflect mileage-based denominations to meet federal mandate – masslive.com

Amid constant changes in 2020 not even highway exit numbers are safe.

Massachusetts will begin to transition to mileage-based exit numbers in October, according to WCVB.

The change was announced last year as the state will drop its current sequential numbering in order to comply with a 2009 federal mandate.

Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Delaware are the only states that have yet to implement the change, and are at risk of losing federal funding if they do not comply.

I was looking at the town minutes to get an update on Piseco-Powley Road as of 9/10

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I was looking at the town minutes to get an update on Piseco-Powley Road as of 9/10.

The Piseco Road Bridge project is progressing, the new Wingwall is up and poured.  The repairs to the North East Wingwall are completed. Backfilling is underway at the new Wingwall.We need to place some medium stone fill on the backside of the north East Wingwall. The damaged or missing pipes on the Road North of the bridge have been repaired or replaced.  The large washed out areas have been filled. Some of the ditches have been reestablished.We still need to place more gravel, complete the ditch work and place Light Stone Fill as needed. We  will  also  be  placing  Crusher  Run  on  the  repaired  areas  to  bring  the  entire  road  back  to  Pre Disaster Condition.