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Tuesday, November 5, 2013 local almanac

Nov 05, 2013 12:01 am
Weather right now


[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="128"] Cairo: High 52F; low 30F.[/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="125"] Catskill: High 50F; low 34F.[/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: Mostly sunny. High near 49. Tuesday night, partly cloudy. Low around 34.


Forecast for the next three days:

Wednesday: Mostly cloudy. High near 60. Wednesday night, a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy. Low around 46.
Thursday:
Rain likely. Cloudy. High near 63. Thursday night, a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy. Low around 34.
Friday: Partly sunny. High near 47. Friday night, mostly clear. Low around 28.

Sunrise today: 7:34 a.m.
Sunset today: 5:43 p.m.

Length of the day: 10:08 hrs.

Town meetings

Today is the first Tuesday of the month.
It is Election Day and public meetings are suspended due to the holiday.

The day ahead on 90.7-FM

12 a.m. (midnight): Radio News: Radio Bubble Report about Greece's Radio Bubble from Feature Story News.
12:05 a.m.: Radio Stew: Jonny Farrow Live interview of Jonny Farrow, from the United Arab Emirates, where it will be 9 a.m. Farrow hosts "Distract & Disable" at 2 p.m. the third Saturday of the month on WGXC. The show, "is highly eclectic, but generally features a lot of analog and digital synth sounds accompanied by other ephemera on eclectic themes from around the internet and beyond."
1 a.m.: Mobile Radio: The Long Night of Yeast On Nov. 4, 2013 from 8 p.m. CET, Mobile Radio will be broadcasting 12 hours of live fermentation from a wine cellar in the Mosel valley. Here is the link to tune in: http://s01.a.airtime.pro:8000/knut.m3u or check the audio player on http://trossenwein.de Wave Farm and WGXC 90.7-FM will transmit this broadcast live from 1 a.m. to 4 a.m. on Nov. 5. Every autumn thousands of wine cellars in the Mosel valley, Germany's premier wine growing region, turn into magnificent sound installations. Freshly pressed grape juice starts fermenting in barrels and the escaping gas bubbles through glass u-pipes, each barrel at its own speed. Mobile Radio has set up a stereo microphone in the wine cellar of bio-dynamic winemakers Rudolf & Rita Trossen in the village of Kinheim to capture and broadcast these fermentation sounds from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. CET, starting on Mon., Nov. 4, documenting the work of yeast turning juice into wine.
4 a.m.: Whistleblowers in the Age of the Surveillance State Col. Ann Wright spent 13 years on active duty with the U.S. Army before beginning a distinguished 16 year career with the U.S. Foreign service. In 2003, she resigned her diplomatic post in protest on the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, one of only three State Department officials to have done so. She has since become a campaigner for peace and justice, opposing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and raising awareness of sexual assaults with in the U.S. armed forces. She has traveled on the Japanese Peace boat and with the flotilla to break the siege of Gaza. She has been a constant supporter of people whose conscience drives them to to speak out against the destructive and criminal policies of their own government. She co-authored the book "Voices of Conscience: Government Insiders Speak Out Against the War in Iraq."
5 a.m.: PCJ Media Network Plus: 20131105 International radio and media show. The show is produced jointly by PCJ in Taiwan and Canada. Producer/Presenter: Keith Perron.

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
8 a.m.: Democracy Now! hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
9 a.m.: WGXC Morning Show continues.
4 p.m.: WGXC Afternoon Show
9:30 p.m.: Battlefield Earth: Election Night Host Dan Seward provides local election results between songs.