March 4, 2020 Night

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Good evening! Partly cloudy and 37 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ There is a west breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 4 am. ☃️

Tonight will have a slight chance of rain and snow showers between 11pm and midnight. Partly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 31 degrees at 5am. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 29th. West wind 7 to 9 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2019, we had clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 7 degrees. The record low of -12 occurred back in 1948.

Tonight will have a Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon with 74% illuminated. At 10 PM, the moon was in the west-southwest (241°) at an altitude of 60° from the horizon, some 235,699 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 30th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The Worm 🐛 Moon is on Monday, March 9. The darkest hour is at 12:08 am, followed by dawn at 5:58 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:26 am in the east (98°) and last for 2 minutes and 55 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 40 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:04 am with sun in the east-southeast (104°). Tonight will have 12 hours and 33 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 53 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 46 degrees at 3pm. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 19th. Northwest wind 5 to 8 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 28 degrees. The record high of 71 was set in 1964. 8.6 inches of snow fell back in 1917.❄

In four weeks on April 1 the sun will be setting in the west (277°) at 7:21 pm (Daylight Savings Time),🌄 which is one hour, 32 minutes and 41 seconds later then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 42 and 26 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 52 and 32 degrees. The record high of 77 degrees was set back in 1986.

Looking ahead, April Fools Day 🤡 is in 4 weeks, Pink Moon 🌕 is in 5 weeks, Tax Day 💰 is in 6 weeks, Earth Day 🌎 is in 7 weeks, 8 PM Sunset 🌇 is in 2 months, Latest Sunset 🌆 is in 16 weeks and Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 46 weeks.

🇺🇸🦅Only 78 days remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🦅🇺🇸

Snow Drift Against Mountain Background

I find it really annoying when people smoke cigarettes outside of buildings downtown

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I find it really annoying when people smoke cigarettes outside of buildings downtown … 🚭

Not only is cigarette smoking unhealthy, it smells really bad for people passing by, going out for a walk, not wanting to breathe in your second hand smoke. Cigarette smoking is fine in a suburban backyard or a rural area, but it shouldn’t be allowed out in front of tall buildings downtown or near bus stops where people are either going for a walk, or just trying to catch a bus somewhere.

A complete ban on smoking downtown, would reduce the amount of second-hand smoke people are forced to breathe in, while forcing smokers to either quit, or risk being arrested and fined. While I don’t think that it makes sense to ban all tobacco products, if they prohibited smoking in public places, it would greatly reduce the nuisance and health impacts of smoking in dense urban areas.

Color Television

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The primary purposes of color television are as follows:

  1. To sell laundry soap.
  2. To sell imported cars.
  3. To sell politicians.
  4. To remind the public that law enforcement and government agencies are important, and must be expanded and given more lavish benefits.

Pennsylvania lawmakers seek to block any attempt at regulation of single-use plastics | StateImpact Pennsylvania

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Pennsylvania lawmakers seek to block any attempt at regulation of single-use plastics | StateImpact Pennsylvania

Language was added Wednesday to the state’s fiscal code (SB 712), to delay rules around things like plastic bags and food wrappers. The fiscal code frequently contains questionable earmarks and controversial provisions lawmakers add shortly before the annual state budget deadline at the end of June, rather than adhering to a more transparent process.

The move comes as the city of Philadelphia seriously considers a ban on single-use plastic bags, along with a 15-cent fee for any recyclable paper or other reusable bag stores provide to customers.

Gotta have those plastic shopping bags to burn in the burn barrels in hillbilly country, Pennsylvania. They do burn pretty good for sure, but they are kind of nuisance when they blow around and get in the trees, especially near landfills and in cities.