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Even setting aside 2 hours per week can result in a lot of benefits, especially if you also have a job that requires you to be on your feet a lot. That is a lot of time spent moving around. Anyway, isn't this the covid thread?

Agree and disagree. I'd say eating healthy is a privilege, but exercising not as much. You don't need to set aside hours a day to benefit from exercise, and you don't even need equipment. There is the saying that "you can't outtrain a bad diet," and calories add up quickly if you're living on junk/fast food, which can certainly make staying in shape more difficult, but not impossible. Considering that a lot of people could stand to lose 50-100 pounds, it's more of a longer term/general health goal and not something that going to help much in this current round of covid.

Interesting that the AstraZeneca vaccine shows good, but significantly less efficacy than the others. I'm not sure you can request which vaccine you want though.

LOT went WAA for some of the area, mainly driven by timing of the rush hour and not so much totals.

No. It was a humdinger that backed in from the east coast. Go pull up the old maps and you'll be impressed.

What?! We never get the rug pulled out on phasing progged in the med-long range.

Of course you can shift the odds in your favor by maintaining a healthy weight and exercising, but to some extent it's still luck of the draw. The long-hauler thing is still a little tough to firmly quantify, but I have read lots of stories of people in their 20s-40s who are at a healthy weight and are still having issues months after getting covid. Again, hard to quantify but it's obviously not some 1 in a million thing. Hopefully they fully recover in time.

Big impact on the warm side as well. Areas on the east coast had gusts of 90-100+ mph.

Put me down for 1-2" on colder surfaces in much of the metro, except near the IL shore with onshore flow (at least somewhat onshore) off of 50 degree water temps.

Definitely on the list of storms I'd like to live through. Obviously not nearly as big of a deal this far west, but the overall impacts and meteorology were pretty spectacular.

I am semi-bullish. Not necessarily on totals but on a period where it comes down pretty good. Nice WAA setup, at least until the warmer air wins out.

The same

Wouldn't it be a godsend if we peak sometime soon. Have to wait and see. Even if so, I think we may be on a horrendous plateau with this thing due to getting "held up" by the holiday gatherings and, unlike spring, there are several months of more favorable transmission conditions (cold, dry weather) left to get through.

Did you read that somewhere or is it a personal guess?

Did some math on Wisconsin. If total cases are 5x higher than confirmed (which is a very reasonable possibility, and could even be playing it conservatively), it would mean 30% of the state has been infected. The stuff about transmission rates and how much of a percentage you have to get to start seeing some effects of partial immunity is something I don't know much about. I think the real test will be after Thanksgiving. If there is still no increase in Wisconsin in the weeks after Thanksgiving, and absent mitigations, then it would give credence to the idea that maybe they reached a point where the virus has taken enough people out of the "pool" (at least for a period of time) and knocked the rate of transmission back. Very speculative though.

Looks like we're heading to 1000+ deaths. Bad news for a Sunday and not seen since the spring.

About 6200 cases in IN, which is down a bit from last Sunday.

Saw a 3.5" report from IWX. We'll see if anything higher comes in.

Think of it this way. We are confirming almost 200k cases per day. Now how many of those are considered "at risk", who knows. Would a 55 year old with hypertension qualify or is that not enough? Would like to be optimistic but you outlined the challenges well.

Definitely a chance that the roads in general get sloppy, not just the bridges/overpasses, especially in the heavier precip.

Barring something strange, first measurable snow of the season looks likely at ORD on Tuesday. Should have been last month, but I digress.

Put me in the pour snow camp. Precip rates look pretty good overall and have some banding potential for even heavier rates. Ideally it could be a little colder but I think it's good enough for a band of 2-5" from IWX to DTX areas of responsibility.

From what i remember, the supply is limited. They gotta do whatever they can to ramp up production.

Somebody, anybody might want to issue a winter weather advisory. Then again it's a Sunday and magnitude of ground impacts are a bit uncertain.

I'm sure some people are. The real test is next week, especially Wednesday. But the airport traffic is only one part. If people who normally fly are deciding to drive instead, then it doesn't really matter.