March 10, 2020 Night

Good evening! Rain showers and 53 degrees in Delmar, NY. β˜” There is a south-southwest breeze at 14 mph. πŸƒ. The dew point is 43 degrees. Yes, it’s nice to come home 🏑 and enjoy the fresh air with my windows open. Temperatures will drop below freezing at Thursday around 4 am. β˜ƒοΈ At some point I may have to turn my heat on for a few days but hopefully not long at this point.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly before 11pm. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear 🌧, with a low of 33 degrees at 6am. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 3rd. Breezy, with a southwest wind 14 to 20 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2019, we had light rain in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 34 degrees. The record low of -10 occurred back in 1939.

Tonight will have a Waining Gibbous πŸŒ– Moon with 97% illuminated. At 9 PM, the moon was in the east (96Β°) at an altitude of 8Β° from the horizon, some 226,309 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. πŸš€ At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by August 29th. Buckle up for safety! πŸ’Ί The darkest hour is at 1:06 am, followed by dawn at 6:48 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:16 am in the east (95Β°) and last for 2 minutes and 54 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 43 seconds earlier than yesterday. πŸŒ„ The golden hour ends at 7:54 am with sun in the east (101Β°). Tonight will have 12 hours and 16 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 55 seconds over last night.

I went over to John Wolcott house yesterday and we found some old slides πŸ“· from the pig 🐽 farm on Rapp Road where Crossgates wants to build 🏒 the apartment complex and Costco. I also got some documentation from him to review. Other than that not a lot of great discoveries πŸ”Ž mostly what I expected.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 46 degrees at 5pm. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 19th. North wind 5 to 11 mph. Should be another nice day but no to keeping the windows open tomorrow. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 43 degrees. The record high of 70 was set in 1977. 4.1 inches of snow fell back in 1941.❄

Hump Day tomorrow and the weekend will be here before you know it. β›„ It looks like the snow will be gone relatively soon and winter is fading away early. Maybe the Ground Hog was right 🐻after all.

Seems almost certain now that Biden will be the democratic nominee. πŸ‘΄ And almost as soon as the election is over he will be forgotten. That said, I still think it’s good the democrats are running someone against President Trump as you never really know what can happen during an election.

In four weeks on April 7 the sun will be setting in the west (280Β°) at 7:28 pm,πŸŒ„ which is 32 minutes and 18 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 68 and 34 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 55 and 34 degrees. Spring is coming and I’m sure we will have some nice warm day. The record high of 87 degrees was set back in 2010.

Looking ahead, St. Patrick’s Day πŸ€ is in 1 weeks, 7:30 PM Sunset πŸŒ‡ is in 4 weeks, Good Friday ✝️ is a month away, Cinco de Mayo 🀠 is in 8 weeks, Mothers Day πŸ‘©β€ is in 2 months, Primary Day πŸ—³οΈ is in 15 weeks, Election Day 2020 πŸ—³οΈ is in 34 weeks and Election Day 2020 πŸ—³οΈ is in 34 weeks.

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ¦…Only 72 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!πŸ¦…πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

Trees Along the Clear Cut

Kiakout Kill Tributory

On the left is the bank where supposedly "Medical Waste" is illegally dumped, and would have to be removed or at least properly capped prior to a Pine Bush restoration.

Taken on Saturday March 24, 2012 at Albany Pine Bush.

Oil industry ‘not asking’ for bailout from Trump, trade group chief says

Oil industry ‘not asking’ for bailout from Trump, trade group chief says

The leader of the largest U.S. oil and gas trade group said the industry is not interested in receiving aid from the Trump administration to help overcome a historic drop in oil prices on Monday.

“We are not in discussions with anyone in the administration at this time on any type of program for the industry,” said Mike Sommers, the CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, in response to a question from the Washington Examiner on a press call. “We believe we shouldn’t be reacting to one day of a market downturn.”

Sommers added he has spoken to a number of API members and that the consensus is, "They are not asking for anything from the government.”

Coal-Fired Power Plants Hit a Milestone in Reduced Operation | InsideClimate News

Coal-Fired Power Plants Hit a Milestone in Reduced Operation | InsideClimate News

Coal-fired power plants are retreating from the market in at least two big ways. One is hard to miss: Many plants are closing. The other is more subtle: Remaining plants are running much less often than before.

Newly released figures from the Energy Information Administration show that coal plants in the United States had a "capacity factor" of 47.5 percent in 2019, the first time it's been below 50 percent in decades of available records. This means that the total electricity production from the country's roughly 310 remaining coal plants was less than half of what it would have been, had every plant operated every hour at full capacity.