March 7, 2020 Night

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Good evening! Mostly clear and 32 degrees in Delmar, NY. There is a west-northwest breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. Don’t forget to set your clocks back one hour. Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 8 am. 🌡️

It was a good day, spent a lot of time in the woods walking 🚶, observing nature and so forth. Five Rivers in the morning, Schodack Island in the afternoon. My knees and leg have been a bit achy all day, in part from the cramp in the morning and also I think the Lyme disease 🐜.

Went shopping and got most of the supplies that I needed. 🍏 Probably too many – I shopped at Aldi and Walmart. I didn’t have enough reusable bags when I was in Walmart so I had to kind of overpack one of the bags. 🛄 I think the whole banning plastic bags is so silly but liberals like it. Honestly if when I move to a state with free plastic bags, I’ll be quite happy to use them again and chuck them in the burn barrel with the rest of the burnable trash. 🔥 Probably ventilated with a handgun 🔫 that I wouldn’t need a permit for in a free state. 🆓

I don’t get the need for the plastic bag bans when they’re talking about developing vast areas of land for solar farms. ◻With folks proposing 100 acre and even 1,000 acre solar farms what’s the big deal with sitting a 100 acre landfill that could provide disposal capacity for a region for a half century or more? 🚮OH, and I took my junk mail and waste paper to the recycling dumpster at the Park and Ride. Greeny of the year. ♻ LOL 😂.

I washed Big Red. 🚘 Wasn’t super dirty but I wanted to get the mud off it and residual salt off it before it warms up. Filled up the gas tank ⛽ as gas has come down in price due to everybody’s silly fears of a Corona Recession. Democrats really want a recession so they can replace the president, although nobody serious seems to be advancing in the primary. 🛄

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 19 degrees at 4am. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around February 24th. Northwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming calm after midnight. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 7 degrees. The record low of -2 occurred back in 1989.

Tonight will have a nearly Full 🌝 Moon with 96% illuminated. I saw it rising around 5 pm at Schodack Island State Park. At 9 PM, the moon was in the southeast (129°) at an altitude of 55° from the horizon, some 228,683 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by August 28th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Worm 🐛 Moon is on Monday, March 9. The darkest hour is at 12:07 am, followed by dawn at 5:53 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:21 am in the east (96°) and last for 2 minutes and 55 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 41 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 6:59 am with sun in the east-southeast (103°). Tonight will have 12 hours and 25 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 55 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 57 degrees at 3pm. 16 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 12th. Calm wind becoming west 5 to 9 mph. Should be a nice day. Tempted to open some windows for fresh air in the morning. Definitely on Monday. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning, which became light snow by afternoon. The high last year was 34 degrees. The record high of 68 was set in 2012. 6.5 inches of snow fell back in 2013.❄

In four weeks on April 4 the sun will be setting in the west (279°) at 7:25 pm (Daylight Savings Time),🌄 which is one hour, 32 minutes and 28 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 47 and 30 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 53 and 33 degrees. The record high of 79 degrees was set back in 1950.

Looking ahead, Average High is 50 🌸 is in 3 weeks, 7:30 PM Sunset 🌇 is a month away, Average High is 60 🌼 is in 6 weeks, Flower Moon 🌕 is in 2 months, Average High is 70 🐮 is in 10 weeks, Memorial Day Weekend Starts 🏕️ is in 11 weeks, Strawberry Moon 🌕 is in 3 months, and Summer ️⛱️ is in 15 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 75 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸

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March 7, 2020 Morning

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Good morning! Happy Saturday. Finally the weekend! Three weeks to Average High is 50 🌸. Partly sunny and 30 degrees at the Five Rivers Environmental Education Center. There is a north-northwest breeze at 14 mph. 🍃. The current wind chill is 19. Nice morning but cold to start out the day with that wind. But I’m hoping for a warm up tomorrow that will last for a while. Things will start to thaw out at around 10 am. 🌡️

Last night I woke up with a cramp in my leg. 💪I was real painful then but it went away. But I ended up not getting a real early start but I made it Five Rivers by nine. 🐦Not a lot of wildlife out on this rather chilly morning.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 41 degrees at 3pm. Typical for today. North wind 11 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning, which became light snow by afternoon. The high last year was 26 degrees. The record high of 62 was set in 1974. 10.3 inches of snow fell back in 1967.❄

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:07 pm with sun having an altitude of 42.4° from the due south horizon (-28.5° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 6.6 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:16 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (258°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (264°) starting at 5:50 pm and lasts for 2 minutes and 55 seconds with dusk around 6:21 pm, which is one minute and 12 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the east (93°) at an altitude of 30° from the horizon, 228,874 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:54 pm. At sunset, look for clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 39 degrees. There will be a northwest breeze at 11 mph. Today will have 11 hours and 33 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 53 seconds over yesterday.

Today’s agenda is pretty standard. 🚶 I’ll probably head home at noon 🕛 go to Schodack Island in the afternoon, visit Aldis and wash my truck. 🚿 Also want to start unpacking and organizing my camping gear. ⛺ I doubt I’ll get out camping next week but I want to be ready when the weather comes. Also want to drop off the recycling paper 📄 at the park and ride. 🅿 Soon I’ll need to take the cans and bottles to the transfer station. ♻ And maybe get rid of some other junk. Although a lot of it is scrap metal.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 21 degrees at 4am. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 3rd. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable in the evening. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 7 degrees. The record low of -2 occurred back in 1989.

With the forecast for this week and shutting off the heat at my apartment. ♨ Except for tonight the mercury is going to be well above freezing and with lots of sun to heat the building with radiation. ☀ It might be warm enough on Monday and Tuesday to open the windows for the day. Might be a bit chilly tomorrow morning but so be it.

Back in 1967, Bloody Sunday: a group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama. 👮 Things have changed a lot in America since then but too much remains the same.

🌹🌻🌼Only 12 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼

As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Average High is 50 🌸 when the sun will be setting at 7:17 pm with dusk at 7:45 pm (Daylight Savings Time). On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy and temperatures between 55 and 33 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 50 degrees. We hit a record high of 85 back in 1945.

Spring?