Upstate Earth: Dewey Loeffel and The Toxic Legacy of General Electric
Weather Update – August 6, 2021
The weatherman says the next few days will be hot…π
Yes, I launched a new and improved weather table below which fixes some of the bugs π in the code and makes things prettier and concisely reminds us how hot it will be next week.
Summer has finally arrived now that we are getting into the meat and potatoes π₯ π₯© of the month of August. We had that almost a heat wave in June and then its been cool that past few weeks. π°
I decided against a long weekend this weekend but I think I will take off both Thursday and Friday of next week to go up to the Potholers during the worse of the heat wave. β
Unsure about this weekend though, might go out to Schoharie βΊ or maybe just Thacher Park π depending on the weather. I think I will decide early on Saturday morning but I could use a nice weekend at Mine Kill Pool doing some fishing π£ and hiking besides obviously swimming ππ»ββοΈ.
| Today. Hot ! |
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Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny.
Calm wind becoming south 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.
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85 degrees | 64 max dew point | 8:09 sunset |
| Tonight. Hot ! |
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Partly cloudy.
Light south wind.
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65 degrees | 63 max dew point | 5:54 sunrise |
| Saturday. Muggy ! |
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A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Partly sunny.
South wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
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85 degrees | 67 max dew point | 8:08 sunset |
| Saturday Night. Muggy ! |
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A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2am, then a slight chance of showers. Mostly cloudy.
Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
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66 degrees | 67 max dew point | 5:55 sunrise |
| Sunday. Feels like … August 3rd. |
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A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Partly sunny.
Light west wind. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
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83 degrees | 67 max dew point | 8:06 sunset |
| Sunday Night. Muggy ! |
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A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm. Partly cloudy.
Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
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64 degrees | 68 max dew point | 5:56 sunrise |
| Monday. Muggy ! |
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A chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly sunny.
Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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85 degrees | 68 max dew point | 8:05 sunset |
| Monday Night. Muggy ! |
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A chance of showers before 8pm. Mostly cloudy.
Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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65 degrees | 67 max dew point | 5:57 sunrise |
| Tuesday. Muggy ! |
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A chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly sunny.
Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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87 degrees | 69 max dew point | 8:04 sunset |
| Tuesday Night. Muggy ! |
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A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy.
Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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67 degrees | 68 max dew point | 5:58 sunrise |
| Wednesday. Muggy ! |
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A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny.
Chance of precipitation is 40%.
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86 degrees | 71 max dew point | 8:02 sunset |
| Wednesday Night. Muggy ! |
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A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy.
Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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67 degrees | 70 max dew point | 5:59 sunrise |
| Thursday. Muggy ! |
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A chance of showers. Partly sunny.
Chance of precipitation is 40%.
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87 degrees | 71 max dew point | 8:01 sunset |
Officials Tour Storm-Damaged Cleanup Site | WAMC
Intense rain storms last month damaged restoration work at a Superfund site in Rensselaer County.
Little Thunder Brook, a stream in the drainage way of the contaminated Dewey Loeffel Landfill in the Town of Nassau, has been the subject of a PCB removal and stream restoration project begun in 2018.Several inches of rain and flooding from storms last month washed out stream banks and prompted officials to launch an ongoing sampling effort to determine if contaminated sediment was carried from the site.Today, Nassau Town Supervisor David Fleming joined officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos on a tour of the site. Soon after, Fleming told WAMC's Southern Adirondack Bureau Chief Lucas Willard he had worried about heavy storm events prior to last month's downpours.??Commissioner Seggos provided a statement on Thursday's visit to WAMC.







