WestMichigan

Get ready to watch a lot of the yellows and oranges disappear this week with Laura's remnants.

This is into September, but the 6Z GFS is bringing to 0°F 850 line into the region. Won't happen, but a sign of things to come.

Pretty tame over here. Peak wind gust at my house was 33MPH. Would have loved to see the higher numbers, but I can do without the loss of power so I guess I am glad that we missed it.

Sure is heading that way. Interesting to see if it continues or not.

GRR didn't even crack the top 10 for July.

With all of the unempolyment benefits talk on here yesterday I saw this earlier today. "the University of Chicago estimated that 68% of those receiving benefits were getting paid more than what they made before with the median payment 34% higher than their previous weekly paycheck". https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jobless-claims-week-ending-july-25-123150219.html

You could say the same for the states. Everyone is quick to blame the feds, but if they are so bad why don't the individual states go their own way and get it right? Take a little personal responsibility. It is always easier to blame someone else when things go wrong and take credit when they go right.

Is it treatment or demographics? I have no idea and curious if anyone has seen any data one way or the other.

Interesting that MI has ~12,000 fewer cases than TN, but MI has over 6x the number of deaths. Are the doctors that much better at treating this no vs. in the beginning or has something changed with the virus? Could be the specific population in each state that has the virus is much different also. Curious to see what accounts for that large of a difference in deaths.

89.7°/81.1°/109° was this max heat index IMBY yesterday. It was an awful day to be outside. Even the breeze with was regularly gusting into the 20+ range felt hot.

Picked up 1.54" yesterday. Probably a little more fortunate than most in the area, but definitely no drought working its way in here for the time being.

July 6, 1996 - Tulsa, OK it was 111°F. I don't care if it is a dry heat or not. That is hot.

A - We don't live in China. What sort of nanny state do you want? B - You cound make the opposite argument just as easy for staying at home.

I'm closer to the lake than you so I am all too familiar with that shadow. Got 0.03" last night and that is it.

55MPH wind gust here so not too bad. Came down in buckets. My Vantage Pro 2 said 9.00"/hr at one point.

93 for a high here yesterday.

93° air temp and 74° DP here. It is definitely a hot and muggy day.

Interesting how the stretch of AN snow seems to stop at the Indiana state line and Lake Michigan.

Can't come soon enough. I am covering close to 1000 sq ft every night it gets this cold. Survived a hard freeze last week and fortunately only got down to 36 last night so it was a waste of time. Better safe than sorry though. As you said, tonight should be the last night.

Checking out of this thread. If you aren't for status quo and bow before the government, you aren't really welcome here other than the be told you are an idiot or your point doesn't matter. Every once in a while I see a glimmer of hope that maybe there can be more than one side of the debate only to see that dashed over the next 47 posts. Have a great day and I will see you when there is some weather to talk about.

Too many posts to quote over the last couple pages, but why is it the federal government's responsibility to make sure each state is looked after? What about each state's governor taking some heat for not being prepared instead of all 50 pointing to Washington? We have a central federal government, but each state is also managed by there own governmental system. Seems to me like this is the pot calling the kettle black blaming the President and Washington DC for failing when they could have seen to it that their own state was prepared instead of looking elsewhere for help. Much easier to blame someone else.

Which is why I referred to the OP in my post. @RobertSul either missed that or disregarded it.

There was a problem with yesterday's numbers so that is too low. It is * on the michigan.gov website. They had a problem with their computer program collecting and aggregating the data.

isolated? Per NHTSA drunk driving accounts for over 10,000 deaths a year. That isn't isolated. Not COVID19 levels, but tell those families drinking alcohol is ok and that death doesn't matter. Same reasoning as the OP.

I am not minimizing your point but as others have already said why not ban alcohol because of the drunk driving deaths? Why not drive 55 because it will save lives? Why not stop construction because of accidents on site that lead to death? Why not ban nearly all fatty/sugary/salty/cholesterol laden food? Why not ...? You can say this about every death that has some cause that is preventable by altering our actions? But would you want to live in that society? This is the current hot topic but we don't say this about every other thing in our society that causes a preventable death. Just offering a counter point to what you say. The deaths are horrible don't get me wrong and come back with a reply saying that.