February 9, 2023 Evening

Good evening! Cloudy and 41 degrees in Delmar for the evening walk. ☁️ Breezy, ️16 mph breeze from the south-southeast 🌬 with gusts up to 30 mph πŸ’¨πŸ’¨πŸ’¨. There is a inch of snow on the ground. β˜ƒ ️Temperatures will drop below freezing at Saturday around 1 am. β˜ƒοΈ

Kind of chilly this evening with the wind 🌬️ but I’m out walking because that’s what I do in the evening. One of my eyes πŸ‘€ is a bit irritated and I’m tired 😴 as I didn’t sleep well last night as I was a bit bothered by the news of Ward Stone’s passing. The high cost of politics. I think it’s better to focus on making money πŸ’΅ and looking the other way as your community is going to shit.

Tonight will rain likely before 10pm, then a chance of showers after 3am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 42 degrees at 6pm. 26 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 27th. South wind 11 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. In 2022, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 12 degrees. The record low of -21 occurred back in 1948.

Somebody brought in doughnuts 🍩 to work today and I walked right on by. Sugar is ducking poison ☠ I told myself and walked on by. I don’t need the free food, I’m not starving. Having that bowl of oranges, apples and bananas in my office really helps. 🍊🍎🍌 I eat a couple throughout the day whenever I’m hungry and I have a lot more energy. And if turns out it’s actually cheaper than eating bigger meals. 🍴 Pasta, frozen chicken, sauce seems cheap – if you buy in bulk but it’s not if you end up eating a ton of it, ignoring the health impacts. But if you’re eating fruits and vegetables all day long πŸ₯¦ you feel far less hungry. 🀰🏼

Tonight will have a Waining Gibbous πŸŒ– Moon with 84% illuminated. The moon will rise at 9:21 pm. The Snow ❄ Moon is on Saturday, February 25. The darkest hour is at 12:10 am, followed by dawn at 6:32 am, and sun starting to rise at 7:02 am in the east-southeast (110Β°) and last for 3 minutes and 4 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 15 seconds earlier than yesterday. πŸŒ„ The golden hour ends at 7:42 am with sun in the east-southeast (117Β°). Tonight will have 13 hours and 36 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 35 seconds over last night.

Today I found they are extending the 519 bus to Voorheesville. 🚍 Kind of happy 😊 about being able to catch the express in front of my apartment as it makes for an easier commute on session days or bad weather when I don’t want to necessarily walk down to the express.

Tomorrow will be partly sunny 🌞, with a high of 48 degrees at 10am. 13 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 22nd. Breezy, with a west wind 16 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph. A year ago, we had snow in the morning, which became snow by afternoon. The high last year was 25 degrees. The record high of 53 was set in 1955. 4.0 inches of snow fell back in 1892.❄

Saturday I’m thinking of sanding and painting that rust spot on my passenger door of my truck. Figure arrest the rust the best I can while I still can. πŸ›»πŸ–ŒοΈ And maybe do an early morning walk 🚢 down to Norman’s Kills Falls.

In four weeks on March 9 the sun will be setting in the west (265Β°) at 5:55 pm,πŸŒ„ which is 35 minutes and 12 seconds later then tonight. In 2021 on that day, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 50 and 27 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 43 and 24 degrees. The record high of 81 degrees was set back in 2016.

Looking ahead, Read Across America Day πŸ“š is in 3 weeks, 7:30 PM Sunset πŸŒ‡ is in 2 months, Arbor Day 🌳 is in 11 weeks, 8:30 PM Dusk πŸŒ† is in 12 weeks, 8 PM Sunset πŸŒ‡ is in 12 weeks, 9 PM Dusk πŸŒ† is in 16 weeks, June 🍹 is in 16 weeks, 8:30 PM Sunset πŸŒ‡ is in 17 weeks, Ugly Truck Day 🚚 is in 23 weeks, Campfire Day πŸ”₯ is in 25 weeks, Columbus Day πŸ›₯️ is in 35 weeks, Average High is 60 πŸ‚ is in 36 weeks, Thanksgiving πŸ¦ƒ is in 41 weeks, Average High is 40 🌨 is in 10 months, Earliest Sunset of the Year βŒ›οΈ is in 10 months, First Day of Winter β˜ƒοΈ is in 45 weeks and 4:30 PM Sunset πŸŒ† is in 46 weeks.

Snowmobile Trail Climbs Henry Hill

I re-crunched, well my computer with 100 lines of Python, re-crunched the now-official Albany County 2022 Election results which now includes blanks and drop-off numbers

I re-crunched, well my computer with 100 lines of Python, re-crunched the now-official Albany County 2022 Election results which now includes blanks and drop-off numbers.

2022: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RoLoGmEel-AVopvbxBHDT0jtvONHCm-h/edit#gid=1831870489

2021: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SBbYvtYgEwTZ6fKMraqc_aqohM_-9oJl1Jliw9lb27g/edit#gid=832211149

2020: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dXaBj9lNA3kkpVO72pTEjSqqU55IPRNMpfK9JPBNsM4/edit#gid=2072536779

2019: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WMuTgKrwAi5mSK2lwaRW0m9HdhYhdBCvY0Xib_tjMkc/edit?usp=sharing

At some point I might crunch 2018 and earlier back to 2011, but the problem I run into is the Board of Elections Enrollments are in PDF format which are slightly more difficult to process compared to Excel files they’ve used since 2019.

Here is the code I use for crunching these numbers: https://github.com/AndyArthur/Albany-County-Election-Result-Cruncher