December 12, 2019 Night

Good evening! Partly cloudy and 24 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌃 There is a south breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. There are 3 inches of snow on the ground. β˜ƒ ️Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 9 am. 🌡️

I am tired so I’m retiring to bed early tonight. 😴 I woke up early this morning and couldn’t sleep. Bit achy too but that’s normal when I’m tired. But interestingly enough I wasn’t tired at work or had headaches – maybe that’s a sign that the doxycycline is working 💊 and Lyme is basically gone.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 23 degrees at 9pm. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical night around December 11th. Maximum wind chill around 17 at 9pm; South wind 6 to 10 mph. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became light snow by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 18 degrees. The record low of -6 occurred back in 1988.

Tonight will have a Waning Gibbous Moon 🌖 with 95% illuminated. The moon will set at 8:34 am. The Last Quarter Moon is on Tuesday night with mostly cloudy skies. The is on Wednesday night. The sun will rise at 7:15 am with the first light at 6:44 am, which is 49 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 14 hours and 54 minutes of darkness, an increase of 41 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers, mainly after 2pm. Cloudy 🌦, with a high of 39 degrees at 2pm. Two degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around December 7th. South wind 3 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 32 degrees. The record high of 58 was set in 1984. 14 inches of snow fell back in 1915.❄

I rode the exercise bike 🚲 for over an hour this evening , baked brownies 🎂 for the Christmas Party 🎄 tomorrow at work and had fish for dinner. 🐠 Kind of a cold evening plus I got watching the YouTube videos I downloaded 📼 so I decided to stay home 🏡. Today is one of the nights when my neighbor works night shift so it’s perfect for me to ride the bike when he’s not home so I’m not bothering him. Also did some cleaning up in the kitchen as it was getting a little bit dirty.

Maybe tomorrow I should go to the library 📚 and come up with some new content for the blog. But lately I’ve been running 🏃 low on ideas :idea:. I could make up more maps but I’m running low on New York lands and it’s kind of a lot of work to set up other states with their unique data on QGIS. It also is getting hard to come up with ideas for new things to graph 📊 after a while.

In four weeks on January 9 the sun will be setting at 4:40 pm,🌄 which is 17 minutes and 50 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had rain and temperatures between 40 and 32 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 30 and 15 degrees. The record high of 62 degrees was set back in 2008.

Looking ahead, Static Electric Shock Day 🧼 is in 4 weeks, National Cheese Lovers Day 🧀 is in 6 weeks, 5:30 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 10 weeks, Easter 🐰 is in 4 months and Flower Moon 🌕 is in 21 weeks.

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Take the TR/JFK 50-Mile Challenge | The Art of Manliness

Take the TR/JFK 50-Mile Challenge | The Art of Manliness

As an adherent of “the strenuous life” — a believer in “bodily vigor as a method of getting that vigor of soul without which vigor of the body counts for nothing” — Theodore Roosevelt tried to get in two hours of physical activity every afternoon. While serving as president, this exercise typically consisted of tennis matches, horseback riding, rustic cross-country walks, climbs and scrambles in then-wild Rock Creek Park, or even skinny dips in the Potomac River.

December 12, 2019 Morning

Good morning! Happy Thursday. Two weeks to Boxing Day 🥊. Mostly sunny and 18 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. β˜€ Definitely a bit crisp but sunny. There are 3 inches of snow on the ground. There are a lot of bare patches on the ground now, I was able to cross the traffic island without deep snow for the first time since the snow storm. β˜ƒ ️Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 9 am. 🌡️

Taking the express downtown. 🚍 The hybrid bus slowly nicely on the red-lights 🚥 on the expressway. Lot of smoke rising from the Glenmont Power Plant. 🏭 Definitely cold but crisp.

The beautiful morning ain’t expected to last. Today will have increasing clouds ☁, with a high of 29 degrees at 2pm. Eight degrees below normal. Light and variable wind. I won’t notice from my windowless office 🏢 but it doesn’t matter as I have a busy day on tap. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 39 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1979. 6.6 inches of snow fell back in 1970.❄

The sun will set at 4:22 pm with dusk around 4:54 pm, which is 7 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 27 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 9 hours and 6 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 42 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 23 degrees at 7pm. One degree above normal, which is similar to a typical night around December 11th. Maximum wind chill around 20 at 6pm; South wind 3 to 7 mph. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became light snow by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 18 degrees. The record low of -6 occurred back in 1988.

Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the United States Constitution, five days after Delaware became the first on this day in 1787.📃 I like the Keystone state a lot, real nice country and people. πŸ™‚ Kind of an expensive state but at least their really laid back about open burning 🔥.

Going to be a wet one this weekend. 💦 Saturday, rain. High near 44. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. The should do a number on the snow. Sunday, a chance of rain and snow showers before 8am, then a chance of rain showers between 8am and 1pm. Cloudy, with a high near 42. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Typical average high for the weekend is 36 degrees.

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Static Electric Shock Day 🧼 when the sun will be setting at 4:40 pm with dusk at 5:11 pm. How shocking :o. On that day in 2019, we had rain and temperatures between 40 and 32 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 30 degrees. We hit a record high of 62 back in 2008.

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