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October 2, 2016 Morning

Good morning! Happy Sunday. Cloudy, damp and 57 degrees out hiking in the fields of Green Lakes State Park in Fayetteville. Calm wind. The dew point is 55 degrees. The skies will clear Tuesday around 7 am.

The colors are starting to come out a bit, although the trees are still mostly green with some yellow popping in locations. Columbus Day will be close to peak color, although it may be fairly late in these lower elevations. On a cloudy day like this you get better pictures if you set the white balance set properly on the camera, although that can be fixed on post processing if the photos aren’t over exposed. I’m afraid I didn’t get a good picture of the buck that ran out in the field. 

Joggers on the trails are pretty annoying but it is still pretty quiet on the open meadows that dominate the hilltops up here. 

Today will have a chance of showers, mainly after 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high of 69 degrees at 3pm. Four degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 59 at 4pm. South wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. The record high of 85 was set in 1927. The sun will set at 6:41 pm with dusk around 7:10 pm, which is 1 minutes and 46 seconds earlier than yesterday. 

As we head towards the winter solstice, our days quickly get shorter. Today will have 11 hours and 37 minutes of daylight, a decrease of 2 minutes and 54 seconds over yesterday.I remember back to the 26th when we had 12 hours of light and day. Thank God for coal fired power plants, electric lamps, and headlights. 

Tonight will have showers and possibly a thunderstorm before midnight, then a chance of showers. Low around 53, with a low of 53 degrees at 6am. Another mild evening. Nine degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 59 at 6pm. Light and variable wind. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1945.

There are 2 weeks until the Hunter’s  Moon when the sun will be setting at 6:18 pm with dusk at 6:46 pm. The average high temperature is 60 degrees, with a record high of 88 in 1947. Autumn always comes and goes so quickly. 

September 25, 2016 Night

Good evening! On the first night of more darkness then light, it’s a clear but cool evening. Mostly clear and 47 degrees in North Syracuse. Calm wind.

It was a nice day at Green Lakes State Park. Not too cool but also not super hot. Kind of pretty but so far the leaves haven’t changed yet much. Saw a little red on one or two of the trees. Drove out past Cicero Swamp today but as far as I know there isn’t a lot of hiking opportunities there due to being a swamp. Tomorrow, probably will be back to walking along Onondaga Lake before work. I got to upload those photos when I get a chance. 

Tonight will be mostly clear, with a low of 41 degrees at 3am. Six degrees below normal. Light east wind. The record low of 29 occurred back in 1947.

Waning Crescent Moon tonight with 31% illuminated. The moon will rise around 2:13 am. The New Moon is on Saturday at 12:11 am with chance of showers expected. The Full “Hunter” Moon is in 3 weeks at 4:23 am.

Tomorrow will be partly sunny, with a high of 71 degrees at 4pm. Three degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 51 at 6pm. South wind 6 to 15 mph. The record high of 89 was set in 2007.

The sun will rise at 6:56 am with the first light at 6:28 am, which is 1 minutes and 7 seconds later then yesterday.

July 23, 2016 Night

Good evening! Clear and 73 degrees in Burdett. There is a northwest breeze at 8 mph. The dew point is 56 degrees. It’s cooled down quite a bit but it’s still pretty warm in the Finger Lakes. 

Had a nice campfire and now it’s rapidly fading away. I’m getting ready for bed shortly. The stars are decent but a little soft with high clouds. We have a Waxing Gibbous Moon in about an hour. 

Tonight will be mostly clear, with a low of 63 degrees at 4am. One degrees above normal. Northwest wind 5 to 8 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. Maximum dew point of 59 at 1am. The record low of 45 occurred back in 1985.

Tomorrow I will transfer some photos onto my phone and start posting them tomorrow. And then spend some solid time at the Watkins Glen pool. Going to bring a book, read a bit, then hop in the pool. 

Good night. 

April 16, 2016 Night

With the moon just a little past its highest location with a million stars in the sky, it is 50 degrees in Delmar. Enjoying some Corona out back listening to some music on an old set of ear buds because I managed to lose them between the dock I was fishing on earlier this evening.

In was pretty quiet on the dock this evening on the Hudson River although I kept getting hits on my line. I pulled in a half dozen Pumpkinseed Fish and tossed them back in. Caught something bigger but my headphones got caught in the fishing line and I lost him (lol?) . Very placid on the water tonight but there were a lot of people fishing down there.

It was nice at the Elm Ave Town Park earlier in the afternoon. Besides playing on my laptop down there, I spent like am hour reading down there. I am blessed that I can walk to so many great places from home and take the bus to work every day. Now that it’s finally warming up, I expect to spend a lot more evenings down at the park with a book or on the Internet.

Despite the warmer weather conditions, the evenings can still get quite chilly. Even with a long sleeve shirt, I’m not exactly feeling warm out back. It was cool on the dock after dark too. I guess I can’t be in too much of a rush for summer, as it goes by too quickly. Today, four months from now, will be opening day for the Altamont Fair. At that point, we will have reached the closing days of summer. I was looking at a Facebook friend’s photos from the Potholers, thinking how I can’t wait to get up there. Summer is delightful. The road to Powley Place doesn’t open until late May or early June but you can drive almost all the way to the Potholers before the gate.

Not heard much from the spring peepers tonight although I just heard them briefly chirp. Must be too cold for them. The low tonight is 37 degrees which still is a degree below normal. While we’ve seen warmer days recently, the nights have remained remarkably cold. A month from now, the average low will be 47 degrees meaning that most evenings will be in the mid to upper 50s. Comfortable but with lots of black flies.

Tomorrow is going to be sunny and around 70 degrees. Nice weather, 11 degrees above normal but 22 degrees below the record set in 2002. Monday will be 73 degrees. The normal high temperature one month from now is about 70. Will be warm or at least mild most of next week but some modestly chilly nights but no frost anticipated in the city through next week. Showers possible on Tuesday and next weekend may be cloudy or rainy. I may also stay in town next weekend to prepare for my road trip.

Make sure to remain hydrated and be extremely careful with fire. Humidity will remain low all weekend and with that breeze and lack of greenest in the woods means a fire risk. The humidity for most of the afternoon was under 20% producing dew points in the teens. In contrast in the summer we sometimes have dew points in the low to mid 70s on those hot and sticky days. Even exceptionally clear summer days don’t often have dew points below the mid 50s.

Tonight’s Waxing Gibbons Moon is 2/3rd full as we head towards the full moon early in the morning of Earth Day on next Friday. Moon sets around 4 AM with sunrise at 6:08 AM. First light is now well before six, starting at 5:38 AM.

It’s getting late I’m tired. Sleep well…

March 19, 2016 Night

As we head into the 10 o’clock hour, we are right about freezing on this moonlit night. Despite the moonlight, the stars are pretty nice. There is a slight northwest breeze this evening but really quite pleasant for mid-March. About 3/4rd of the Waxing Gibbous Moon is visible tonight until around 3:30 in the morning. The low tonight is expected to be around 19 degrees which is about 8 degrees below normal. 11 hours and 48 minutes of darkness tonight.

Tomorrow will start out sunny but with increasing clouds as the day progresses. Sunrise tomorrow is around 6:55 AM but darkness will fade away about an half hour earlier. Cool day on tap tomorrow, the mercury is expected only to reach 40 degrees, which is about 7 degrees below for the first day of spring. Temperatures back in the fifties for the second half of the week. The snow storm heading up the coast may bring some clouds and maybe a flurry to Albany, but for the most part I think it will be a non event for us.

Save the Pine Bush Hike is tomorrow at 2 pm. I’m leading it from Blueberry Hill East at 13 Columbia Circle near the Kiddie Academy. It’s at 2 pm. It should be a nice hike, even if the clouds start to prevail by later in the afternoon.

So tomorrow is the first day of spring. 30 days left until tax day which happens to be April 18th this year due to a federal holiday. I’ve done my taxes but I owe the state $200. But on a more positive note, April 18th has an average high of 60 degrees which would be nice after the recent frigid weather. Civil twilight aka full darkness doesn’t come on that day until 8:11 pm. Day length grows quickly around that first day of spring.

Decided to dump the blog post templates I’ve been using in recent months to get back to a more free-form blogging style. They were convenient but didn’t really save much time, and just seemed literally scripted, because they were. I did put together an internal portal, so I could easily reference the weather data I needed for my blog posts.

Went for my evening walk. While not real warm out, it still is pretty pleasant. I can’t complain about the weather and the later sunsets but I still wish summer would be here sooner than later.

Left my laptop at my parent’s house, which means I can’t upload the photos I took today. Kind of annoying. I don’t use my laptop that much anymore now that I have my Smartphone, but I do need it to transfer photos from my camera to my phone and for map creation purposes. Oh well. It’s much more devastating to not have a working phone. That said, I had a pretty nice St. Patrick’s Dinner at my parents house. I did Sunday dinner a day early due to the possibility of snow tomorrow evening.

All and all I think it was a pretty good Saturday, even if it got off to a lazy start.

Macintosh Computer Day 2016 Night

Good evening. Currently partly cloudy under moonlit skies and 26 degrees in Delmar. A very nice evening for mid-January with pleasant weather expected for the rest of the week but a few cloudy days expected mid-week. Later tonight more clouds, with a low around 18. Northwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm after midnight.

Tonight we have a Waining Gibbous Moon with 94% illuminated. Really almost looks like a full moon on this delightful moonlit evening. I can’t complain for it being January. Tomorrow’s sunrise will be at 7:15 am with first light at 6:45 am, which is one minute and 50 seconds earlier then today.

The Save the Pine Bush Hike went well as, we had nearly a dozen people . We haven’t had that many people on a hike for a long time. Mark Platt was a great hike leader. It was great weather, with deep blue skies for the first half of the hike. I have photos to upload, I’ll try to get them uploaded starting tomorrow morning. I was having trouble with my USB cable so it didn’t happen tonight.

I got PyQGIS scripting working with the composer view and downloaded the plug-in template generator. It’s obvious that learning python and scripting QGIS will not only save time but will make better, more accurate mapsand teach me a hot new scripting and programming language plus give me knowledge into Qt programming. I certainly can not complain, as I’m really learning everything I can imagine I’ll ever need to know.

Washed much truck today, getting the worse of the salt build up out of the wheel wells and undercarriage to hopefully squeak out a few more rust free years, at least on the body panels. It’s tough living in the rust belt with all the salt they apply. Manufacturers have certainly gotten a lot better at sealing the sheet metal to prevent rust. You don’t see the rust buckets around you might have seen ten years ago, but alas still the tin worm never sleeps.

For Sunday dinner had spinach casserole which my mom makes amazing. It doesn’t sound great to spinach haters but it’s really good. I went grocery shopping today and did my wash. Ready for a productive work week this week.

I hope you had a good Macintosh Computer Day. Sleep well!

January 10, 2016 Evening

Good evening. Currently mostly cloudy and 49 degrees in Westerlo. KInd of a dreary day, although those thunderstorms that came through around 3:30 PM were pretty intense. A pretty sunset and some rainbows came after that, which was nice. I didn’t get any photos of the rainbow but it was pretty driving out to my parents house for Sunday dinner.

Tonight will have a chance of showers, mainly before 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 24. West wind 10 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tonight we had a very slender waxing crescent moon, which has already set. With the clouds and rain, you didn’t missed much. Heading out in woods on this warm but damp night, you’ll want a flashlight. Monday will be mostly sunny, with a high near 29. West wind 14 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.

Spent some more time cleaning mildew in my apartment but I think I got the last of it cleaned up. Things are starting to look pretty nice and clean in my kitchen. I do need to figure out if I can remove the rust or paint my refigerator, which is pretty darn rusty. Rather not do any more damage to my apartment, which is why I’m tempted to leave it as is.

Continuing to work on mapping and some coding for the blog. I will have some new content to post to the blog later in the week. Have a great evening!