May 12, 2020 Night

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Good evening! Partly cloudy and 42 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ There is a west-northwest breeze at 11 mph. 🍃 with gusts up to 21 mph 💨💨💨. The skies will clear around 10 pm.

Kind of a chilly evening 🌃 when I went for my evening walk 🚶 but I’m not complaining, the muggers will be here before you know it. You will be dripping in sweat 😰 and while it will get nicer after dark it still will mean sticky conditions for sleeping. I’m hoping though come a few weeks my old office 🏢 will be open and things will be cool and air conditioned once again.

I ordered the screen house tent 🎪 for camping. I’m not going to use it a lot because it’s a fair amount of work to take down and set back up but for long holiday weekends and summer vacations I plan to use it to escape the bugs and rain. I also ordered a propane lantern tree so I can use that when I don’t have a good place to hang the lantern like in the screen house. Took advantage of both the money 💵 I got for my birthday 🎂 from my parents and the gift card 📦 I got from CDTA for participating in their online fact finding group.

A pretty quiet day at work, 💼 I ended up spending most of the day down at the library parking lot as it was quiet there and nice sunny weather for using the Wi-Fi. ☀ At one point there was five cars there with people getting on the web. Become popular. Honestly, I could get Wi-Fi at home but I like working down at the library or Five Rivers using my personal laptop and the charger running off the solar.

Another cold night on tap. Tonight will have areas of frost after 1am. Otherwise, partly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 33 degrees at 4am. 13 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around April 5th. West wind 6 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. In 2019, we had light rain in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 42 degrees. The record low of 30 occurred back in 2005.

Tonight will have a Last Quarter 🌗 Moon with 65% illuminated. The Flower 🌷 Moon is on Wednesday, May 27. The darkest hour is at 12:53 am, followed by dawn at 5:05 am, and sun starting to rise at 5:37 am in the east-northeast (64°) and last for 3 minutes and 13 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 6 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:17 am with sun in the east-northeast (71°). Tonight will have 9 hours and 26 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 8 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 57 degrees at 3pm. 12 degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 13th. Northwest wind 8 to 17 mph. A year ago, we had light rain. The high last year was 54 degrees. The record high of 86 was set in 2004. There was a dusting of snow in 1953.❄

In four weeks on June 9 the sun will be setting in the west-northwest (303°) at 8:32 pm,🌄 which is 24 minutes and 12 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 83 and 49 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 76 and 55 degrees. The record high of 100 degrees was set back in 1933.

Looking ahead, Primary Day 🗳️ is in 6 weeks, Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 25 weeks and Election Day 2020 🗳️ is in 25 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 10 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸

Spring will arrive

Car computer

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Technically any four stroke gasoline engine is a mechanical computer as its has a cam shaft that drives valves that are timed to do a specific program of opening and closing at controlled times.

All computers run programs – mechanical computers use cam shafts while electronic computers use programs stored in some form of electronic memory. Outside of internal combustion engines, cam shafts are increasingly rare and even inside of modern cars cam shafts don’t really exist in the traditional way.

How coronavirus disrupted California meat plants – Los Angeles Times

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How coronavirus disrupted California meat plants – Los Angeles Times

There’s no shortage of demand for beef.

Prices are up. Grocery stores are limiting how much each customer can buy. Last week more than 1,000 Wendy’s restaurants ran out of hamburgers.

There’s also no shortage of cattle earmarked to be turned into beef.

But prices for those animals have dropped. Sales are down. At a recent livestock auction in the San Joaquin Valley, just a handful of buyers bothered to make an appearance.

Employees at these factories work closely together, and thousands nationwide have become infected with the novel coronavirus. At least 20 have died. As their workers fall ill, the plants have lowered capacity or temporarily shut down.
The plants’ diminished capacity means some beef can’t get processed, and that has thrown cold water on the market for cattle: Why pay top dollar for the animals if you might not be able to sell them later?

That’s a problem for California, the nation’s fifth-largest cattle-producing state. In a good year, commercial ranchers could aim to get more than $1 per pound for a premium calf. Now, the expected price has dived 15% to 25%, said Mark Lacey, president of the trade group California Cattlemen’s Assn.

“We’ve had some major droughts, we have had some bad market years, but this is unlike anything I’ve ever seen,” said Megan Brown, a sixth-generation cattle rancher and manager of Brown Ranch in Plumas and Butte counties. “Even in the family history, nothing compares to this.”