Eskimo Joe

All, this link will take you to the current 1hr, 3hr, and 6hr flash flood guidance from the Mid Atlantic River Forecast Center (MARFC). Worth bookmarking: https://www.weather.gov/marfc/Flash_Flood_Headwater_Guidance

While it's a potentially good sign, folks really need to understand some key points: 1.) This is likely not going to be a vaccine. In the history of Coronavirus vaccine research, there is no working vaccine for any derivative of Coronavirus. 2.) This is likely going to be a step forward in the treatment protocol but won't be commercially available for at least 6 months, even with all the red tape cut. The physical act of production takes a long time. 3.) Whatever happens with an eventual treatment first, it will initially go to hospitals for treating the most dire cases.

All disasters do this, people choose to ignore them. It's a persistent issue in the emergency management field. This particular event is really pulling the curtains back. The challenge to reduce or eliminate the economic and societal inequalities starts in neighborhoods with people deciding to care about their fellow residents. Until that happens, nothing will change.

IMO, it seems that Maryland and DC are are the peak and Phase 1 re-opening between May 10th - 18th appear reasonable.

Oooo, what nursery?

The lawn mowers will be going full force this weekend.

I don't think people understand how nefarious this virus is. As things open back up, people need to keep their guard up and continue extra measures for disinfectant and sanitizing surfaces. Because if this gets in your office/facility/whatever, it runs through fast.

Looks like WPC bumped up the DY 1-3 QPF to 2"+ from US15 east.

IMO, antibody testing is not a cure all and shoudn't be touted as a reliable indicator of any partial or full immunity until more reliable studies on it come out.

Big Ooof

eh?

NWS Charleston, WV just issued a flood watch for their eastern zones so I wonder if/when CTP and LWX will be hoisting a watch.

More likely we get flooding. If you read the morning AFD from LWX it sounds like we're getting a flood watch later today.

Ask me Wednesday.

7 calendar days of this and ICU decrease. There was +202 in hospitalizations reported today.

Yes.

This is just a casual observation, absolutely not scientific in any way, but it seems like we go from overcast and 47 degrees to full summer a lot quicker since the early 2000s.

Two question for the lawn folks: 1.) Do you have a recommendation for a de-thatcher/aerator that isn't overly expensive for a home owner to buy? 2.) We have a lot of wild violets on our lawn. We have a lawn service that does some light spraying for us, but the violets just laugh at it. Are there any suggestions on how to slowly reduce their numbers?

Watch DCA hit 90 before May 10th.

Yea that's not the greatest number to see unfortunately.

Numbers tail off because some of the private labs don't run on weekends.

Folks be wary of the onslaught of "recent studies". Question the source and see if there was a control group. Otherwise the conclusions are likely dubious.

Yea. Appears +74 fatalities...ICU utilization from COVID patients up 25% though.

No, that was a poor explanation on my part. I should have said that is what was report on Thursday.