October 16, 2019 Night

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Good evening! Rain and 51 degrees in Dormansville, NY. ☔ Breezy, ️17 mph breeze from the northeast 🌬 with gusts up to 31 mph 💨💨💨. I can hear the rain on my truck cap but not the wind yet. The dew point is 49 degrees. The skies will clear Friday around 10 am.

I skipped the Pine Bush dinner because I was feeling under the weather. 😫 I feel like I am getting a cold and my eye was irritated. Maybe the problem is the low air pressure due to the storm and the humidity. Or not sleeping well in the truck. At least it is going to be mild the next few days despite the driving rain tonight into tomorrow. If I feel sick, I’ll take tomorrow off from work.

I was feeling under the weather so while I was at my parents house watching the dog 🐶 I figure I’d watch some YouTube movies. Those old trucker songs are great including the ones I posted earlier tonight. Also did you see that video 📹 I posted earlier about that Adirondack sect? Odd but kind of neat.

Tonight will rain. The rain could be heavy at times. 🌧 Low of 45 degrees at 6am. Five degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 4th. Breezy, with a northeast wind 17 to 25 mph becoming west after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 47 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible. Going to be a wet one. ☔ Two inches of rain is a lot for a day in Albany, outside of extreme weather like a hurricane. 🌀 Bombogensis is a pretty significant weather pattern regardless. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 39 degrees. The record low of 21 occurred back in 1940.

Tonight will have a Waning Gibbous Moon 🌖 with 83% illuminated. The moon will set at 10:44 am. The Last Quarter Moon is on Sunday night. The Beaver Moon 🌝 is on Monday, November 11th. The sun will rise at 7:10 am with the first light at 6:41 am, which is one minute and 11 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 12 hours and 58 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 47 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will rain, mainly before noon, then showers likely after noon. The rain could be heavy at times. 🌧 High of 47 degrees at 11am. Nine degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 10th. Breezy, with a west wind around 23 mph, with gusts as high as 44 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 57 degrees. The record high of 85 was set in 1947. There was a dusting of snow in 1970.❄

In four weeks on November 13 the sun will be setting at 4:35 pm (Standard Time),🌄 which is one hour, 37 minutes and 3 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had rain and temperatures between 44 and 32 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 49 and 32 degrees. The record high of 69 degrees was set back in 1964.

Looking ahead, Day After Election Day 🛀 is in 3 weeks, Average Night Below Freezing 🌌 is in 4 weeks, Average High is 40 🌨 is in 7 weeks, Christmas 🎅 is in 10 weeks, New Years Day 2019 🎉 is in 11 weeks, 2 is in -2598 weeks, National Bird Day 🐦 is in 13 weeks, 37th Birthday 🎉 is in 15 weeks and Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 66 weeks.

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Costco is going to extremes to keep its rotisserie chickens at $4.99 – CNN

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Costco is going to extremes to keep its rotisserie chickens at $4.99 – CNN

At the back of Costco's stores, past the televisions, jewelry, jumbo-sized ketchup jugs and tubs of mixed nuts, is one of the retailer's most prized items: The rotisserie chicken that costs just $4.99. Cheap Kirkland Signature rotisserie chickens aren't only a quick way for families to get dinner on the table. For Costco, the chickens are a lure, pulling customers into stores and getting them to browse the aisles, adding sometimes hundreds of dollars worth of items to their shopping carts before they pick up that bird.

Colorful Afternoon

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Fantastic colors hiking at Dolly Sods a few days beofre Columbus Day.

Taken on Friday October 11, 2019

Why Alcohol is the Deadliest Drug – Addiction Center

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Why Alcohol is the Deadliest Drug – Addiction Center

Opioids are taking the news headlines by storm, and rightfully so, as we are living amongst a deadly opioid overdose epidemic here in the U.S. People are dying from prescription pills every day, and we cannot do enough to reduce the number of these deaths. However, what we don’t hear enough about is alcohol and how deadly it is. Alcohol is the most socially acceptable drug on the market and the most easily accessible. Even with this knowledge, the general public still has a tendency to believe alcohol is ok, not dangerous, and an acceptable form of relaxation. Science tells us something different. Alcohol is the deadliest drug of all. Let’s look at why this is true.

BOMBOGENESIS

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BOMBOGENESIS

Bombogenesis is cyclogenesis taken to the extreme. Bombogenesis is defined as a mid-latitude cyclone that drops in surface barometric pressure by 24 or more millibars in a 24-hour period. The height contours pack around the center of rotation and the number of height contours increases rapidly in the developing stages. The most common time of the year for bombogenesis to occur is in the cool season (October to March) when the temperature gradient is large between the high and mid-latitudes. Bombogenesis typically occurs between a cold continental air mass and warm ocean waters or between a cold polar air mass and a much warmer air mass. Many Nor-easters are the product of bombs. The contrast in temperature between polar air spilling over the eastern U.S. and the warm Gulf Stream waters sets the stage for cyclogenesis on the boundary between these air masses.