Good morning! Happy Memorial Day 🇺🇸 ! Thanks to all that have served, whether it was for a noble cause, a paycheck, or because our government leaders where foolish war mongers. Five weeks to Hottest Time of the Year 😅. That said, after a cold and rainy past few days, the heat machine cranks up by this mid-week with hot and muggy weather. At least I have the fan out. But for now, cloudy, damp and 45 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a north-northwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃.

Yesterday, I spent most of the afternoon continuing to dig through the remaining increasingly moldy remaining files. 📁 We’ve pretty much reached the end of wet stuff, and things have mostly dried out. Some old newspaper articles literally fell apart and became mush — wouldn’t have been bad to toss in a compost pile with some manure to turn into dirt. But most of the papers themselves were salvaged 📄 although we found more wet stuff then expected at the end and kind of ran low on screens to dry things out. My hat’s definitely off to the firefighters, demolition workers and city officials 👨‍🚒 👨‍💼 👷 that made it possible to recover so much. There are still some good people in the government. And the team of volunteers including Lynne Jackson and Dan Van Riper who have been working for over a week now to save things. I’m going back over this afternoon for another session of drying and salvaging materials, although after today I am going to be pretty busy and long for work, 🏢 and I’m hoping to get out of town before work on Friday. 🏕

Memorial Day will have showers likely, mainly before 1pm. Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy with more sun late 🌦, with a high of 65 degrees at 4pm. 10 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 28th. Maximum dew point of 49 at 12pm. Northwest wind 6 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth 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 65 degrees. The record high of 92 was set in 2013.

In a little bit, certainly by around 8 AM or so I am going to walk out to Five Rivers. 🐦 Probably the trails are just one big mosh pit after the rain, but there should be a lot of robins out. With so much rain lately, I haven’t had a chance to do much walking or time outdoors. Last weekend I hiked Bennett Hill and I’ve done my morning walks, but not many evening walks. 👣 It’s been tough with the weather for sure. ⛈ Maybe there will be a lot of wildlife out after all the rain we’ve had later. Then I’m going to come home, catch a bus downtown again, more file drying 📂 and then out to folks house for Memorial Day/Sunday dinner. 🍔 Might be nice enough to sit outside.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:54 pm with sun having an altitude of 69.3° from the due south horizon (-1.5° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:44 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (295°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (302°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:27 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 23 seconds with dusk around 8:59 pm, which is 48 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:44 pm. At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 59 degrees. The dew point will be 48 degrees. What a big change from what we’ve had lately. There will be a northwest breeze at 5 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 5 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 18 seconds over yesterday. Days are getting long now, for a few more weeks.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 46 degrees at 4am. Seven degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 10th. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming light and variable in the evening. In 2020, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 41 degrees. The record low of 35 occurred back in 1945.

Tomorrow at lunch time 🥪 I need to go to the store and get food. 🛒 I am working from home on Tuesday but Wednesday and Thursday I will be at the office downtown 🏢 and I expect late nights in the office so I’m not going to have a lot of free time. Friday morning before work I plan to head north and work from Spectulator.

Going to be a nice, hot and humid summer weekend. 🏊 Saturday, a chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 85. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Maximum dew point of 64 at 9am. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 88. Maybe 90? Maximum dew point of 65 at 7pm. I would say, that’s very much summer weather. Hot and humid. 😓 Typical average high for the weekend is 77 degrees.

My therapy session 👨‍⚕️ has been postponed one week from Friday, so this week I can get at least in theory in get up to the Adirondacks and work from Lake Pleasant on Friday and then camp up in the Speculator-area. I am a bit tired of being up there, but having the internet at the library and the nice lake to sit down by and work, sure makes it’s worthwhile. 🏕 I want to do Piseco-Powley Road and potholers, but i think I will wait a few weeks until the legislative session is over — supposedly on June 10th, and then take a long weekend when I can be totally off-the-grid and not be doing work emails or anything else work related. 🏊‍♀️ Where work can be the furthest from the mind. Plus in two or three weeks the water temperature should be much warmer. I plan to take off a fair amount of time this summer, and maybe I can do some remote work too, although I kind of hate the mixing of work and pleasure, even if it means ore gets done.

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Summer ️⛱️ when the sun will be setting at 8:36 pm with dusk at 9:11 pm. On that day in 2020, we had hot, mostly sunny and temperatures between 92 and 69 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 81 degrees. We hit a record high of 97 back in 1938.

Good morning! Happy Sunday. Two weeks to Fathers Day 👨 . The unofficial end of black fly season, although I tend to think they’re around until July 4th, although come late June it’s mostly mosquitos then July comes around and things aren’t so bad. Rain and 47 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a north breeze at 8 mph. 🍃.

I wanted to walk around to Five Rivers 🐦 this morning before the rain, but it’s already raining and I did not get up early enough apparently. 😴 I’ve been bad this weekend about getting started, after getting up at 6:30 AM each day last week, so I could go for my morning walk before heading downtown on the bus. 🚌 Memorial Day Weekend will continue to be cold, damp and rainy but the skies will clear tomorrow around 5 pm in time for picnics, although you’ll definitely want a long sleeve shirt. 🌭 🍔

Today will rain, mainly after 10am. 🌧 High of 50 degrees at 4pm. 25 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 28th. North wind around 9 mph. It’s already become a very wet day, and it looks like it only will get wetter. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 78 degrees. The record high of 92 was set in 1987.

Yesterday, I was over at the apartment where they are storing the recovered documents for John Wolcott. 📜 Didn’t find a lot of interesting things, more papers and photos, mostly personal stuff. Important for him, but it wasn’t a lot of great historic value we found yesterday. But I’ve been mostly looking through photos that we’ve been saving by soaking, separating, and drying. 🖼 👃 At least the files don’t stink as much yet, although we are starting to run the clock with the damp weather 💦 and mildew starting to grow on the wet documents. I’m going to head back there later today.

I was worried that the Fairchild Aerial Photos of Albany Pine Bush in the 1920s were misplaced, but Lynne was able to find them. I really want to get a high resolution scan of them, maybe because I’m a bit biased towards them with my love old aerial photos. 🌲 But they can also really tell a story about the Albany Pine Bush and world long gone. The USGS photos taken in the early to mid-1950s for stereographic mapping of the land for topographic maps is great, but it’s from the 1950s, and a lot of land use change occurred earlier then the 1950s in Pine Bush. 🔍

While I should have done this a long time ago, 📸 I finally took high resolution photos of my guns and their serial numbers, along with various diplomas and certification documents including my truck title an birth certificate, 👨‍🎓 and family photos, and put them in an encrypted file both on my laptop and for off-site storage. Just with my ordinary camera. 📄 This way I figure if I am ever a victim of a natural disaster, be it fire, riot, tornado, flood, I’ll have my photos and important documents backed up, with all the numbers and key information. 💾 Sure, I’ll probably have to get a new copy of my birth certificate, et. certera at some point but when you have the information it’s easier to get. Data storage is cheap, and while I don’t do the whole cloud thing, ☁️ off-site is important in case the building I live in is destroyed or my laptop is stolen or damaged. 🔫 Likewise, with the guns it’s a lot easier to file a police report if you have the serial numbers and photos. Salvaging all those charred documents 🔥 really makes me want to be a lot more careful at backing up everything. Plus I’ve purged a ton of paper documents that aren’t relevant anymore. 🗑 I need to tackle the crawl space and get rid of some worn out clothes and other things this summer. 👚 ♻️

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:54 pm with sun having an altitude of 69.2° from the due south horizon (-1.6° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:44 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (294°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (301°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:26 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 23 seconds with dusk around 8:59 pm, which is 50 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:43 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 48 degrees. There will be a north breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 4 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 23 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain, mainly before 4am. 🌧 Low of 47 degrees at 9pm. Nine degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around May 4th. North wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. In 2020, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 46 degrees. The record low of 34 occurred back in 1961.

Tomorrow, which is Memorial Day will have a chance of rain before 7am, then a chance of showers, mainly between 7am and 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 61. 🌦 Northwest wind 6 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

I had higher hopes about Memorial Day 🇺🇸 but it seems like the bad weather will continue until Tuesday when it will get nice. I can work from home on Tuesday, and while I have to work in the office on Wednesday and Thursday, I’m thinking of working from the Speculator area on Friday and Monday, just because there is that great library there and decent places to camp in the area. 🏕 I am going to hold off on the Potholers for this weekend, although looks plenty warm. I could go for a swim at Speculator Beach.  🏊‍♀️ Not sure if I will bring my kayak — my initial feeling is no to that, because I will need the solar power to work. 🛶

As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Fathers Day 👨 when the sun will be setting at 8:34 pm with dusk at 9:08 pm. On that day in 2020, we had cold but otherwise partly sunny day and temperatures between 66 and 46 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 79 degrees. We hit a record high of 94 back in 1892. Back before my time, and I suspect yours too.

Good morning! Happy Memorial Day Weekend 🏕️ ! Mostly cloudy and 49 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a north breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. Blue skies to the south, which is odd considering the rain due later. The skies will clear Monday around 1 am.

It looks like today is going to be the start of the coldest Memorial Day Weekend ❄ since at least 2013, that year when I was camping 🏕 at Moose River Plains and it was so wet and muddy. Between the black flies 🐜 and everything else I am not convinced that Memorial Day Weekend is the best weekend ever to get out of town.

I am doing my morning walk 🚶🏻 early this morning fueled by the French Toast 🍳 and then will take a shower 🚿 and catch the bus down to the office 🏢. I decided to work downtown today as frankly I should be working more in the office as the pandemic is over. 🖥 Plus my work computer is so much faster than the Hotspot and VPN, save bandwidth etc. Plus it’s going to be a cold and rainy day 🌧️ and I’m heading over to the Dan’s vacant apartment to continue with the salvage effort of John’s water 💦 and smoke 🔥 damaged files 📂. Maybe next Friday I’ll work by Lake Pleasant.

Today will rain likely, mainly after 4pm. Cloudy 🌧, with a high of 56 degrees at 2pm. 19 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 9th. North wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. It was humid. The high last year was 83 degrees. The record high of 93 was set in 2016. There was a dusting of snow in 1902.❄

I think I left my rain ☔ coat at my parents house, but I have my umbrella and I’m hopeful it won’t be raining too hard at the end of the day. I told Lynne and Dan that I would be over this afternoon to continue salvaging John’s papers. Not going to be great weather for drying things 📄 but hopefully the weekend will be quite dry. I’m hoping I won’t get totally soaked on the way over.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:54 pm with sun having an altitude of 68.9° from the due south horizon (-1.9° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.3 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:42 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (294°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (301°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:24 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 22 seconds with dusk around 8:57 pm, which is 52 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:41 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 49 degrees. There will be a north breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 15 hours and one minute of daytime, an increase of one minute and 29 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will rain. 🌧 Low of 44 degrees at 4am. 10 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 29th. North wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible. In 2020, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It became very sticky as the night progressed. It got down to 70 degrees. The record low of 34 occurred back in 1956.

Tomorrow will rain likely, mainly before 9am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a high of 53 degrees at 5pm. 22 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 4th. North wind around 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. A year ago, we had partly cloudy skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. It was humid. The high last year was 89 degrees. The record high of 93 was set in 1931.

I might go out to Five Rivers Environmental Education Center 🐦 later in the evening tomorrow but it all depends on the weather and if I should go back in the city to continue drying papers and photos 📸. We did find we could salvage most photos with enough water abs soaking to seperate them out. I want to see if I can get digital photos of my valuable documents and other things this weekend so I can have an off site backup which could prove valuable as I learned from the fire recovery efforts. 📄 Digital data is so much easier to back up, store and keep safe than the paper records of yesteryear.

Looking ahead to Sunday, a chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 59. 🌥 Northeast wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Typical average high for the weekend is 75 degrees. Not this year. Definitely a bad weather weekend for Memorial Day Weekend.

But Memorial Day looks slightly better. Mostly sunny, with a high near 71. 🌞 But still cold. At least it will be nice for the Memorial Day Parades. 🇺🇸 I’m hoping the next weekend will be nicer but right now it looks unsettled.

Looking ahead, there are 7 weeks until Last Sunset After 8:30 PM 🌆 with dusk at 9:04 pm. On that day in 2020, we had rain and temperatures between 80 and 65 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 84 degrees. We hit a record high of 97 back in 1900.

Good morning! Happy Hump Day! 🐪 In the era of front wheel drive cars does anybody celebrate Hump Day anymore? 🚘 Getting ready to catch the bus 🚍 downtown for a day working in the old office 🏢. Partly sunny and 68 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌤️ There is a south breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 63 degrees. A day of sweltering summer heat ended by violent ⛈ and than a good stretch cool, low humidity weather although the Friday going into the Memorial Day Weekend looks like a good soaker. ☔

Today will have a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rain. Mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 88 degrees at 2pm. 14 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 65 at 10am. South wind 8 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Going to be a hot late May. Summer is coming although even though with the new climate normals that’s pretty toasty, with the mugginess. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. It was somewhat humid. The high last year was 90 degrees. The record high of 94 was set in 2010. There was a dusting of snow in 1953.❄

While the air conditioning is on the bus, ❄ it feels hot and muggy with the suit and tie with the mask.😷 I can’t believe how uncomfortable wearing the muzzle truly is this morning. I wish they would lower the air conditioning even more on the bus but I’m not sure if that’s something the drivers control. I haven’t minded masks so much but now that I have to wear them going back and forth to work, a lot of days a work, it really isn’t that much fun. 👨‍💼 Maybe it’s not so bad when you are not in a shirt and tie for work.

I pulled the window shades down and got the fan set up so when I get home, although I might not get home until late, especially if I go over to Dan Van Riper’s place to continuing sorting and drying out John Wolcott’s papers. 📜 I know that Assemblyman Jack McEneny and some others is going to be continuing working over there today, but I can’t do this now because I have to work. But maybe this afternoon after work, although speaking to Dan one of issues is that none of the buildings they’re working in lacks light fixtures.

I am still a bit troubled about what I saw salvaging historical materials from Mr. Wolcott’s house prior to demolition. 🚪 It’s just a reminder how temporary and disposable all things are around us all. While I wondered when that fire ripped through the street in 2018, if things would be lost, it took another 3 years before a devastating fire destroyed much of what was in the house. Last night, I went out and bought a few SanDisk flash drives, so I could start backing up my files off site from my apartment in case of fire, tornado, building collapse, or other permanent evacuation. 💾 You can say it won’t happen to you, but then when you smell that awful smell of a burnt house and a disjointed burnt out building, it seems to really hit. 👩‍🚒 I know a lot of people store their files in the cloud, but I don’t have internet as an option, so I’ve been storing things on an external hard drive, which is good except if the building you are storing things is destroyed. I haven’t heard if Lynne has been able to recover the files.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 68.6° from the due south horizon (-2.3° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 2.4 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:41 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (294°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (301°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:22 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 21 seconds with dusk around 8:55 pm, which is 54 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:39 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and thunderstorms 🌩 and temperatures around 79 degrees. The dew point will be 61 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 9 mph. Today will have 14 hours and 58 minutes of daytime, an increase of one minute and 35 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will have showers and thunderstorms likely before midnight, then scattered showers. Some of the storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rain. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 58 degrees at 4am. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around June 16th. Maximum dew point of 62 at 6pm. West wind 5 to 9 mph becoming light. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. In 2020, we had mostly clear skies. It was humid. It got down to 68 degrees. The record low of 30 occurred back in 1969.

Cool this weekend with temperatures running 10 degrees below normal but otherwise sunny. 😃 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 64. Maximum dew point of 36 at 7am. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 67. Maximum dew point of 42 at 8pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 75 degrees.

I am not sure what my weekend will look like. 💭 I have a feeling I might have to work this weekend, so I am less inclined to go to Adirondacks because working and camping 🏕 is less fun then being totally off grid and doing lots of drinking and hanging out. Plus I really want a hot weekend I can spend down at the Potholers doing said things without the crowds. And as we get further into the June, the black flies taper off.

Looking ahead, there are 7 weeks until National Nude Day 👱 when the sun will be setting at 8:31 pm with dusk at 9:05 pm. On that day in 2020, we had mostly sunny, thunderstorm and temperatures between 84 and 67 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 84 degrees. We hit a record high of 99 back in 1995.