The Day the Music Died 2016 Night

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Good evening. Currently mostly cloudy with dense fog in places and 56 degrees with a dewpoint of 51 in Delmar. How often do you look at the dewpoint in February? Right now it’s the warmest it has ever been on February 3rd in Albany. I can complain about winter but it’s been pretty mild all winter.

Tonight will have a slight chance of showers. Patchy dense fog. Otherwise, cloudy, with a low around 41. South wind 6 to 8 mph becoming west after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Tomorrow’s sunrise will be at 7:05 am with first light at 6:36 am, which is 2 minutes earlier then today. Next week the sun is up before 7 but with the low sun angle it still kind of hangs behind the trees. Clearing mid morning with ample sun later tomorrow, around 46 degrees for a high. A breeze will make the air feel a bit cooler than the mercury. A bit cooler on Friday and a split verdict for the weekend.

It’s remarkable that only 6% of the Great Lakes are covered by ice this year and that they are still mostly open water. It’s been such an unusual winter with El Nino dominating the weather pattern.

It was a nice evening for a walk down to the library and then for my evening walk around the High School. Maybe not summer like but not that cold either. It’s been great not having to deal with snowy, ice covered sidewalks all winter.

I keep discovering new an interesting maps to produce with QGIS. I have to say data.ny.gov is a really great resource for all those looking for data collected by state government.

I hope you had a good Wednesday and got your fill of listening to the Big Bobber and Buddy Holly today. Sleep well!

The Day the Music Died 2016 Evening

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Good evening on this rainy Thursday . Currently overcast and 52 degrees as today’s rain pulls away from Albany. We might have a few more scattered showers, mainly before 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42. South wind 7 to 10 mph becoming west after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Sunset in four weeks on Mar. 2 is at 5:47 pm. Daylight Savings Time begins on Sunday, March 13 is 1 month, 10 days away. Sunset on that day is at 7:00 PM in Albany and bit later as you head west.

October – December 2015 Albany Crime Statistics Breakdown

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Albany provides a 3-month snapshot of crime statistics every few months. I thought it would be interesting to geocode the crime statistics and then compare against the Election District and Ward lines. For your reference, you can see this map to find specific Wards and EDs in the city.

The top wards for crime in fall 2015 where Wards 3, 12 and 2. The least number of crimes occurred in Wards 15 and 14.

Ward Aggravated Assualt Burglary Larceny Motor Vehicle Larceny Rape Robbery Total
1 11 15 40 4 5 75
2 20 13 69 3 1 7 113
3 20 20 91 2 2 9 144
4 7 9 42 4 6 68
5 22 11 42 6 11 92
6 6 4 65 10 85
7 4 2 43 2 1 1 53
8 2 14 16
9 3 4 22 3 1 33
10 7 10 56 3 4 80
11 17 9 68 4 1 11 110
12 1 5 114 4 1 125
13 3 3 54 1 1 62
14 2 5 16 1 24
15 1 6 1 8
Total 124 112 742 37 5 68 1088

Crimes happened in different locations in each ward, although multiple dwellings followed by the street is the most common place where crimes occur in Albany.

Ward 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Total 
Amusement Center 1 1
Auto Sales Lot 1 2 3
Auto Shop 2 3 4 1 1 11
Bar 3 1 5 2 1 12
Barber Beauty Shop 1 1
Church 1 2 1 3 7
Clothing Store 1 1 1 3
College 1 5 2 8
Department Discount 1 1 1 1 1 22 27
Doctors Office 1 1 2
Drug Store 2 6 3 1 3 15
Dry Cleaners Laundry 1 1 1 1 4
Field Woods 1 1
Financial Institutio 1 2 1 1 5
Garage Shed 1 1 1 1 4
Gas Station 2 1 1 3 1 1 9
Government Office 1 3 1 5
Grocery Supermarket 2 2 5 1 1 41 5 57
Hospital 12 1 7 20
Hotel Motel 4 3 3 2 12
Jail Prison 1 1
Jewelery Store 1 1
Liquor Store 3 3
Multiple Dwelling 23 41 36 19 33 11 12 6 31 25 4 12 4 3 260
Other Building 2 3 1 1 1 5 1 14
Other Business Offic 1 2 2 1 1 1 8
Other Commercial Ser 1 1 2 4
Other Outside Locati 1 3 2 1 3 1 1 3 1 2 1 2 1 22
Other Public Access 2 1 2 1 6
Other Residential 1 2 1 4
Other Retail Store 1 1 2 3 12 1 20
Park Playground 1 1 3 3 8
Parking Garage 3 3
Parking Lot 4 9 13 4 4 5 2 3 2 1 16 9 10 82
Professional Office 1 4 2 1 1 1 10
Public Transit Vehic 1 1 1 2 1 6
Rental Storage Facil 1 1
Residential Facility 3 1 2 2 8
Restaurant 2 4 2 3 3 1 15
School 1 1 7 9
Shopping Mall 2 2
Single Family Home 10 5 5 8 8 7 2 4 7 13 10 1 7 9 1 97
Sporting Goods 1 1
Street 18 24 38 12 31 26 10 3 10 24 29 5 14 2 246
Transit Facility 1 3 1 1 6
Unknown 1 1
Variety Convenience 2 6 3 3 5 5 1 1 1 5 2 34
Yard 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 9
Total 75 113 144 68 92 85 53 16 33 80 110 125 62 24 8 1088

Here is a breakdown of street crime by Ward. No street crime was reported in Ward 15, so it was not included on the table.

Ward Aggravated Assault Larceny Motor Vehicle Larceny Robbery Total
1 3 9 3 3 18
2 7 11 2 4 24
3 9 22 1 6 38
4 1 8 3 12
5 13 11 2 5 31
6 2 16 8 26
7 1 7 1 1 10
8 3 3
9 2 6 2 10
10 2 19 1 2 24
11 9 14 2 4 29
12 4 1 5
13 1 12 1 14
14 1 1 2
Total 51 142 15 38 246

Row Houses

Albany does not release crime statistics by Ward. By they do release a 90 day report of all Unified Crime Reporting system and Election Districts are public data. Join them together, and you got Crimes by Ward in Albany.