November 6, 2019 Night

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Good evening! Mostly cloudy and 34 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ There is a south breeze at 5 mph. 🍃. Not a terrible evening for early November. Much colder weather next week starting tomorrow. ❄ Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 10 pm. ☃️

I’m not sure if we will get much snow in Albany ⛄ but it will be a cold and wet evening tomorrow. It’s fine, I have no real plans for tomorrow. Once I get home it can rain all it wants. I went to the library 📚 tonight and downloaded some more YouTube videos 📹 to watch on the exercise bike 🚲 and got some milk. 🐮 Road the exercise bike for a while.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 33 degrees at 10pm. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 9th. South wind around 6 mph. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 41 degrees. The record low of 18 occurred back in 1962.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous Moon 🌔 with 82% illuminated. The moon will set at 1:26 am. The Beaver Full Moon 🌕 is on Monday night. The sun will rise at 6:35 am with the first light at 6:05 am, which is one minute and 16 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 13 hours and 53 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 27 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will rain, mainly after noon. 🌧 High of 44 degrees at 12pm. Seven degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 24th. South wind 6 to 10 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 59 degrees. The record high of 75 was set in 1938. 4.5 inches of snow fell back in 1886.❄

When I was at the library I had sat down at one of the desks 📙 and some random dude kicks me out because he claimed he had a reserved the desk with a book. What an ass. It would have been one thing if someone left a jacket 👕 or their computer 💻 there but holding a desk with a random library book seems silly. 😋 I was pissed say the least.

My Bluetooth headphones aren’t working right with the right channel cutting in an out. 🎧 They’ve gotten so cheap that the quality has gone down. They’re only $10 but that doesn’t make any less annoying until I can replace them. Maybe next time I’ll buy two and keep one ready in case one fails. Not only do I like them on the bus, they’re great for listening to music 🎶 and videos on the exercise bike 🚲. I’ll buy them when I go shopping for groceries on Friday for camping. ⛺

Tomorrow I’m going to turn the heat on before work, 👹so things don’t get too cold with temperatures supposed to drop by evening. Probably leave the heat at 50, things can warm up quickly from there especially if I turn the upstairs electric heat on but I can’t imagine it will be that cold by the time I get home. Going to be real cold for November next week. So much for a mild winter. ❄ I was hoping to have a low utility bill until next month but that seems increasingly unlikely. Salt season starts tomorrow.

I will watch the weather ❄ and figure out where I will go this weekend. ⛺ I still strongly prefer Madison County but not if there is a ton of snow. I could stay home 🏡 but I would really like to get out of town. Otherwise the next time I will likely have a chance to get out of town is Black Friday – and who knows how much snow we will have at that point. Although who knows it could warm up by then and the snow disappears.

In four weeks on December 4 the sun will be setting at 4:22 pm,🌄 which is 20 minutes and 12 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had mist showers, partly cloudy and temperatures between 39 and 21 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 40 and 26 degrees. The record high of 63 degrees was set back in 1998.

Looking ahead, Average Night Below Freezing 🌌 is in 1 week, Average High is 40 🌨 is in 4 weeks, Saint Nicholas Day 🎅 is a month away, Christmas 🎅 is in 7 weeks, New Years Day 2019 🎇 is in 8 weeks, National Bird Day 🐦 is in 10 weeks, 37th Birthday 🎉 is in 12 weeks and Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 63 weeks.

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Why Don’t We Eat Swans Anymore? – Modern Farmer

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Why Don’t We Eat Swans Anymore? – Modern Farmer

Once reserved for royalty – Tudor, not Targaryen – swans have been a taboo food for hundreds of years, thanks in large part to their perceived rarity and beauty. Over the past few decades, however, their numbers have swelled to the thousands in places like Michigan and New York, where the birds are called “destructive” and “invasive.”

Swans have been a taboo food for hundreds of years, thanks in large part to their perceived rarity and beauty. Over the past few decades, however, their numbers have swelled to the thousands in places like Michigan and New York, where the birds are called ‘destructive’ and ‘invasive.’

Various solutions have been proposed, but with one glaring exception: The legalized hunting and yes, eating, of swans. Swans are a bird, after all, no different than ducks and quite similar to a Christmas goose. We eat lambs with little cultural objection and with the “Game of Thrones” TV series stirring interests in medieval cookery, it is not impossible that adventurous eaters might like to give it a try.

Acclaimed Activist Dr. Temple Grandin to Speak at SUNY Cobleskill November 20 – SUNY Cobleskill

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Acclaimed Activist Dr. Temple Grandin to Speak at SUNY Cobleskill November 20 – SUNY Cobleskill

World-renowned activist, advocate, speaker, and author Dr. Temple Grandin will deliver a lecture at SUNY Cobleskill on Wednesday, November 20, sharing her thoughts and experiences about working with peers who are on the autism spectrum, and discussing methods she has used to be successful in her career. The lecture will begin at 1 pm in Bouck Theater, with a book signing to follow. The visit is part of a multi-campus partnership which includes the presentation “Connecting Animal Science and Autism” at SUNY Oneonta. The appearance at SUNY Cobleskill is limited to SUNY Cobleskill students, faculty, and staff.

Refrigerants and Climate Change

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One big thing that the US is doing to reduce climate emissions is replacing the refrigerants that are major greenhouse gases (HFC) with HFO-1234y and so called natural refrigerants like propane and carbon dioxide. Many new cars use HFO-1234y in their air conditioner, it’s a big part of complying for with the carbon emissions standards implemented for cars during the Obama administration.

But outside of the HVAC and automotive engineering industry, virtually nobody knows this. Yet it’s not particularly controversial and as such the politicians don’t talk about it. It doesn’t require any action by consumers – a refrigerator that cools using CFC, HCFC, HFC or HFO-1234y works exactly the same – just some refrigerants destroy the ozone layer, others cause climate change. And others like HFO-1234y, Carbon Dioxide or Propane have a modest to almost zero impact on the climate when emitted into the atmosphere.