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Thursday, January 23, 2014 local almanac

Jan 23, 2014 12:01 am
Weather right now


[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="128"] Cairo: High 17F; low 2F.[/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="125"] Catskill: High 17F; low 3F.[/caption]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

READ TEMPERATURE IN HUDSON: On thermometer in Studio A.

FAR LEFT: The temperature on the far left is from the Hawthorne Valley Farm Weather Page.
MIDDLE TEMP: Cairo from Weather Underground page.
FAR RIGHT: Catskill from Weather Underground page.

Local weather forecast
Today’s forecast is specific to Catskill, in Greene County:
Today: Scattered flurries. Mostly cloudy. High near 15. Wind chill values as low as -5. Thursday night, mostly cloudy. Low around -1. Wind chill values as low as -14.


Forecast for the next three days:
Friday: Mostly sunny. High near 15. Wind chill values as low as -15. Friday night, a chance of snow showers, mainly after 3 a.m. Increasing clouds. Low around 10. Wind chill values as low as -5.
Saturday: Snow likely, mainly between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Cloudy. High near 26. Saturday night, a chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy. Low around 5.
Sunday: Partly sunny. High near 23. Sunday night, snow likely. Mostly cloudy. Low around 13.


Sunrise today: 7:15 a.m.
Sunset today: 4:59 p.m.


Length of the day: 9:43 hrs.


Town meetings


Today is the fourth Thursday of the month.
WGXC suggests calling ahead to confirm time and location.


CHATHAM Village Board meeting at 7:30 p.m. at Village Hall, 77 Main Street, Chatham (392-5821).
COLUMBIA COUNTY .1 (point one) Committee at 1 p.m.; Finance Committee at 2 p.m. at County Office Building, 401 State Street, Hudson (828-1527).
COPAKE Zoning Board of Appeals meeting at 7 p.m. at Town Hall, 230 Mt. View Road, Copake (329-1234).
GERMANTOWN Planning Board meeting at 7 p.m. at Town Hall, 50 Palatine Park Road, Germantown (537-6687).
STUYVESANT Greenway Committee meeting at 7 p.m. at Town Hall, 5 Sunset Drive, Stuyvesant (758-6248).
WINDHAM Town Board meets at 8 p.m. at Town Hall, 371 State Rt. 296, Hensonville (734-4170).


The day ahead on 90.7-FM


12 a.m. (midnight): Radio News: Headlines Radio news about radio waves.
12:05 a.m.: Radio Stew: Sam Sebren Remixed Sam Sebren's Oct. 12, 2013presentation about transmission art and radio art is remixed by Tom Roe.
1 a.m.: Sound Forms: Marathon As Peter Wetzler's "Sound Forms: Conversations with Composers" returns to the airwaves, listen back to four past shows focusing on the works of Pauline Oliveros, Richard Robbins, Henry Lowengard, and others.
5 a.m.: Off The Hook: 20140123 Do not call during rebroadcast. Off The Hook, from the hacker zine 2600, airs every Wednesday night at 7 p.m. ET in New York City on WBAI 99.5 FM, and is rebroadcast the next morning at 5 a.m. on WGXC and free103point9 Online Radio. It is simulcast online via streaming MP3 and via shortwave on WBCQ The Planet at 5110 KHz. Join #offthehook on irc.2600.net to chat during the show. Email show at oth [at] 2600.com. Do not call during the rebroadcast. Rebroadcast from Jan. 15, 2013.

6 a.m.: Background Briefing with Ian Masters Inside breaking international and national news. A radio program featuring international and national news, expert guests, policy makers and critics with analysis and insight on national security, foreign and domestic policy, political, cultural and social issues. This program goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard in the American media.
7 a.m.: WGXC Morning Show Morning news, music, interviews features and agriculture reporting. Hosted by Phil Grant. Call in with your views at 518-828-0290.
8 a.m.: Democracy Now! hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
9 a.m.: WGXC Morning Show The Morning Show continues with local news, weather and events.
10 a.m.: Prison Voices Project: Fight for Parole Justice Milk Not Jails, the Center for Law & Justice, New York State Prisoner Justice Network, Capitol Area Against Mass Incarceration, and NYInsideOUT delivered and installed an exhibit of more than 100 letters from people in prison and their families recounting their experience with repeated denial of parole in New York state. Tune in to hear excerpts from these letters and coverage of the campaign to pass the SAFE Parole act. Hosted by Cory Fischer-Hoffman.
3 p.m.: Radio Theatre: Chicken Hearts Arch Oboler's "Lights Out" radio show is featured, with an episode called "Drop Dead Chicken Heart," and Bill Cosby's "Chicken Heart" track about listening to that "Lights Out" radio show, and setting the couch on fire, to stop the chicken heart on the radio. Plus Charles Mingus' "Eat That Chicken" and Cibo Matto's "Know Your Chicken."
3:30 p.m.: Kids' Brain Radio Live from the Catskill Community Center. Hosted by Matt Bua and Sam Sebren.
4 p.m.: WGXC Afternoon Show Live from the Catskill Community Center. Hosted by Peter Krug and Jillian Sutton.