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Month: June 2015

  • Road Conditions: Rt 376 at Red Oaks Mill

    These potholes have been growing despite the cold-patch:

    Potholes - Red Oaks Mill intersection
    Potholes – Red Oaks Mill intersection

    This is the northeast corner of the Red Oaks Mill intersection:

    Potholes - Red Oaks Mill intersection - map
    Potholes – Red Oaks Mill intersection – map

    Taken with the Fly6 rear camera, cropped to 4:3.

    A few days after I wrote that up, NYSDOT filled the potholes:

    Potholes Repaired - Red Oaks Mill intersection
    Potholes Repaired – Red Oaks Mill intersection

    Now I can measure how long a filled pothole remains filled.

    Taken with the HDR-AS30V helmet camera, uncropped.

  • Monthly Science: Well Pit Temperature

    With more data, those February lows really stand out:

    Well Pit Air Temperature - 2014-10 to 2015-05-31
    Well Pit Air Temperature – 2014-10 to 2015-05-31

    The February daily record shows more detail:

    Well Pit - 2015-02-25
    Well Pit – 2015-02-25

    I’d say the air temperature in the pit got close to freezing, but surely a stream of cold air falling through the vent hole would wash over the logger and depress the results.

    Should I get powerfully motivated, I’ll strap the logger onto one of the pipes, wrap insulation around it, and have it take data from early December through late March in one session; lifting the concrete slab requires enough effort that I’m not going to do it, ah, lightly during the snow season.