February 10, 2020 Night
Good evening! Mostly cloudy and 34 degrees in Delmar, NY. β There is a west-northwest breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. Not a terribly cold evening. There are 2 inches of slushy, wet snow on the ground. β οΈThe skies will clear Wednesday around noontime.
I decided to make macaroni and cheese again for dinner with ample broccoli. 🍲 I’m trying to cut back a bit on portions lately as I’m not as hungry and I get stuffed too early and I could use to lose weight. I saved a lot for lunch tomorrow so I won’t have to make a lunch up in the morning.
Went down to the library for a while and did some research for John Wolcott’s papers project. 📄 I’m trying to make sure that I have an accurate index 📇 and description of things. Tomorrow after work I’m going back over to his house to do more work on it.
Got home walked to Stewart’s and got moo juice. 🐮 Had a cold glass of milk or two and some frozen blueberries and corn cereal for desert. Read 📖 for a half hour more of the Almost President book. I have going to wear my Don’t Tread on Me shirt 👚 to the library but I don’t want to cause trouble. I’m almost ready for lights out. Tomorrow I have to reply back to Lynne Jackson email 📧 I keep putting off.
Tonight will have a slight chance of snow showers and freezing drizzle after 4am. Mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 29 degrees at 5am. 12 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 24th. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. Could get quite icy later. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 18 degrees. The record low of -18 occurred back in 1962.
Tonight will have a Waining Gibbous 🌖 Moon with 95% illuminated. At 9 PM, the moon was in the east (95Β°) at an altitude of 20Β° from the horizon, some 226,732 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 July 31st. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Snow β Moon is on Wednesday, February 26. The darkest hour is at 12:11 am, followed by dawn at 6:31 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:01 am in the east-southeast (109Β°) and last for 3 minutes and 4 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 16 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:41 am with sun in the east-southeast (116Β°). Tonight will have 13 hours and 37 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 37 seconds over last night.
Tomorrow will have a chance of snow showers and freezing drizzle before 10am, then a chance of rain showers. Cloudy 🌦, with a high of 39 degrees at 3pm. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 1st. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 33 degrees. The record high of 59 was set in 1981. 9.6 inches of snow fell back in 1933.β
In four weeks on March 9 the sun will be setting in the west (265Β°) at 6:55 pm (Daylight Savings Time),🌄 which is one hour, 35 minutes and 10 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had sunny and temperatures between 42 and 12 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 41 and 23 degrees. The record high of 81 degrees was set back in 2016.
Looking ahead, Presidents Day 👴 is in 1 weeks, Read Across America Day 📚 is in 3 weeks, Worm Moon 🌕 is in 4 weeks, Good Friday βοΈ is in 2 months, Arbor Day 🌳 is in 11 weeks, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 12 weeks, Mothers Day 👩β is in 3 months, Flower Moon 🌕 is in 14 weeks, Memorial Day 🇺🇸 is in 15 weeks, June 🍹 is in 16 weeks and Average High is 80 🏖 is in 19 weeks.
🇺🇸🦅Only 101 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸
Albany for many years was home to the Upstate New York’s largest All Electric Building
Albany for many years was home to the Upstate New York’s largest All Electric Building.π
One Commerce Plaza was an all electric building until 2006, they used reversing valves on the air conditioning units to provide heat. But the system had one costly flaw — they had to use electric resistant heaters to bring the air temperature to above 40 degrees on cold days, which made the building very costly to operate in prolonged cold spells winter.
Now, One Commerce Plaza uses gas pre-heaters, but they don’t heat the building to 72 degrees. Instead, the rather small gas heater brings the outside air to around 45 degrees, then air conditioner units with their reversing valves, compress the heat from “warmed up air” to a comfortable 72 degrees for the offices.
Lake Erie just broke February high water record — and the lake level keeps rising – cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Lake Erie rose 5 inches in January. By the end of the month, lake levels were 7 inches above last January’s. And by Monday, the lake broke the February high water record, set in 1987.
The latest water forecast from the U.S. Corps of Army Engineers predicts Lake Erie will break monthly records for the next four months before leveling off in June and July. Levels should be 2-11 inches higher than they were last year.
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NEW YORK: ALBANY. 10 YEAR OLD STATE-OWNED RDF INCINERATOR SLATED TO BE SHUT DOWN. When Albany’s incinerator went on line in 1982 it was state-of-the-art. It was designed to burn 600 tpd -but was only able to burn 400 tpd- and is located next to the State capitol buildings, in downtown Albany. Aside from a 10 year history of supplying the area with excessive particulate emissions, the incinerator supplies heat and air conditioning to NY State’s office buildings. According to Judy Enck of the New York Public Interest Research Group this plant has several unique features. 1. It is owned and operated by the State of New York. The state has determined that this notoriously poorly run incinerator (operated by the State!) would need millions of dollars for a retrofit to meet federal air emission standards by 1995, and instead of retrofitting, they have decided to stop burning garbage in the incinerator before February 1995 and, instead, burn a cleaner fuel in the facility: natural gas. 2. A sweetheart contract between the city of Albany and NY State was signed in 1982. (The project was “conceived” by Erastus Corning II, who had served as Mayor of Albany for 40 years -the longest tenured Mayor in America.) The city of Albany gets paid by the State for the garbage it delivers to the incinerator (which includes municipal waste from 14 other communities). The city of Albany receives approximately $10 million a year for delivering garbage to the state-run incinerator and for disposing of the ash! The State owns and operates the RDF incinerator and the shredding operation (which is located “far from habitation” at the Rapp Road landfill site in Albany) and the city owns the landfill. The ash is landfilled at the unlined Rapp Road landfill, which has no leachate collection, located in the middle of the Albany Pine Bush -an ecological pristine area that is home to the Karner blue butterfly, which is soon expected to enter the endangered species list. The city got an expansion to the landfill, and now they want to sell the landfill to a private company. 2. The incinerator has seldom, if ever, been in compliance with its permit conditions for particulate emissions. Pollution controls: a 3-field electrostatic precipitator (ESP). Thomas Jorling, Commissioner of the NY Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), lives within 500 feet of this incinerator, and has stated on several occasions that this incinerator is “abysmal.” The incinerator is operated by New York Office of General Services. 3. The incinerator was cited in 1991 by the NY-based INFORM group for emitting the highest levels of dioxins and furans out of 7 incinerators they had data on – 188 times the state-of-the-art standard on dioxin of 0.10 nanograms per dry normal cubic meter. Albany measured 18.8 ng/dry normal cubic meter. Of the 7 incinerators INFORM reported on, the Albany plant had the highest furnace temperature, 2500°F, and the highest dioxin emissions. (Reference: Burning Garbage in the US: Practice vs. State of the Art, published in 1991 by INFORM, 381 Park Avenue South, NY, NY 10016. Tel: 212-689-4040.) 4. The RDF operation has suffered more than 32 explosions in the last few years. The shredding plant was designed by Smith & Mahoney of Albany. (The boilers were built by Zurn Industries.) 5. In 1986 Dr. Daniel Wartenburg, then with the Harvard School of Public Health, concluded that the plant’s chromium and nickel emissions could cause a significant increase in cancer cases among people living near the plant. Wartenburg calculated a lifetime cancer risk from NY DEC test results of ambient air emissions for chromium and nickel: up to 3,000 cancers per million from the chromium emissions and 300 cancers per million from the nickel emissions. The response of the state was not to shut down the incinerator, but rather to study where the chromium was coming from. Though we never found out where the chromium was coming from, one explanation given was that the chromium might be from from the shredding operation of the garbage to make the refuse derived fuel. According to a report in the Albany Times Union of 11-13-86: “…the equipment used to shred the trash is made of a steel alloy which has a high chromium content. The plant has two shredders, each of which consists of 16 steel hammers. Those hammers periodically wear out…about 1,000 pounds of steel from the hammers decompose into the garbage each month. For the past several years the plant has been using replacement hammers which…contain relatively high amounts of chromium. Although most of the chromium is bonded into the steel alloy, the report states that chromium which is not ‘fixed’ into the steel makes up 2.17 percent of the weight. That would mean that of the 1,000 pounds of steel wearing off the hammers each month, nearly 22 pounds would be chromium…As the shredders wear out, they have to go in and weld on what they call ‘buildup’ onto the walls and the rotors…It has a high chromium and high nickel content. We used about 100 pounds of that a month. Over the past six years, I’d say we used at least 5,000 pounds of weld wire…” 6. Dangerously elevated lead levels have been detected in children who lived near the plant and a lawsuit is under consideration. Of 9 incinerators that INFORM had data on, the Albany incinerator had the highest lead emissions. 7. NY State and Albany have put out bids to sell the incinerator operations, which include the RDF incinerator, the shredding operation and the city owned landfill. 17 companies have responded to the request for bids, including BFI & Wheelabrator. For more information contact Judy Enck at NYPIRG’s Albany office: Tel: 518-436-0876.
Source: http://www.americanhealthstudies.org/wastenot/wn191.htm
Political positions are silly for politicians to have
Political positions are silly for politicians to have. I’d rather just have somebody who competent in office and listens to the experts.