August 12, 2018 Night

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Good evening! Partly clear and 69 degrees in Westerlo. 🌌 Calm wind. The dew point is 66 degrees.

I was going to go home after Sunday dinner at the folks house but decided to stay late in the hammock and sleep in my truck as it turned out to be a a pretty decent evening.

Tonight will have a slight chance of showers. Mostly cloudy ☁, with a low of 68 degrees at 12am. Seven degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 67 at 10pm. North wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2017, we had light thunderstorm rain in the evening, which became shallow fog by the early hours of the morning. It was humid. It got down to 63 degrees. The record low of 43 occurred back in 1957.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent Moon 🌒 with 5% illuminated. The moon will rise at 8:31 am. The First Quarter Moon is on Friday night with a chance of t-storms then partly cloudy skies. The Strugeon Moon 🌝 is on Saturday, August 25th. The sun will rise at 5:59 am with the first light at 5:29 am, which is one minute and 4 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 10 hours of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 29 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after noon. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Cloudy ☔ , with a high of 78 degrees at 2pm. Three degrees below normal. Maximum dew point of 70 at 4pm. North wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies. It was humid. The high last year was 82 degrees. The record high of 98 was set in 1947.

Looks like a reasonably nice weekend. Definitely thinking about the Adirondacks or camping somewhere. ⛺Saturday, a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 83. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Maximum dew point of 65 at 7am. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 82. Maximum dew point of 63 at 5pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 80 degrees.

In four weeks on September 9 the sun will be setting at 7:15 pm,🌄 which is 45 minutes and 39 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2017 on that day, we had rain, mostly cloudy skies and temperatures between 67 and 47 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 75 and 54 degrees. The record high of 94 degrees was set back in 1959.

Looking ahead, Daylight Savings Time Ends 🛥️ is in 12 weeks, Veterans Day (Sunday) 🇺🇸 is in 13 weeks, Veterans Day Observed (Monday) 🇺🇸 is in 3 months and First Sunday of Advent ✝️ is in 16 weeks.

Bowellism – Wikipedia

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Bowellism – Wikipedia

"The premise is that the services for the building, such as ducts, sewage pipes and lifts, are located on the exterior to maximise space in the interior. The style originated with Michael Webb's 1957 student project for a Furniture Manufacturers Association building in High Wycombe.[1][2][3] Webb coi..."

Critical Environmental Areas

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This map shows areas that have been designated as Critical Environmental Areas (CEAs) under 6 NYCRR Part 617 - State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR). Local agencies may designate specific geographic areas within their boundaries as a "Critical Environmental Area" (CEA). State agencies may also designate as a CEA a geographic area which they own, manage or regulate. To be designated as a CEA, an area must have an exceptional or unique character which has a benefit or threat to human health, a natural setting (e.g. fish and wildlife habitat, forest and vegetation, open space and areas of important aesthetic or scenic quality), agricultural, social, cultural, historic, archaeological, recreational, or educational values, or an inherent ecological, geological or hydrological sensitivity that may be adversely affected by any change.

Data Source: Critical Environmental Areas in New York State. https://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/inventories/details.cfm?DSID=1330

Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness

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Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness

This article has been making the rounds on the Internet.

How can blue light from screens be much worse then bright sources of blue light that we see much brighter in daylight or even mercury-vapor street lights, that lit up cities in the 1950s and 1960s, and still do in many small towns?

While I don't dispute exposure to blue light in the evening can keep people awake, I can't imagine blue light at night is bright enough to do any retina damage compared other natural sources of blue light.