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Not even a flash/rumble here yet again...

I. Just. Want. To. Hear. Thunder. Once more in my life.

Our illustrious legislature and a complicit court have successfully undermined our governor's efforts to keep us safe. After doing relatively well at keeping case counts from exploding the last six weeks, Wisconsin is now the only state with NO official state-level restrictions or guidelines in effect.

And I've been going to work all this time, in a workplace where several people have to touch a lot of the same devices. I've been trying to encourage my coworkers to wear masks, but so far only a few have signed on.

12 minutes ago, hawkeye_wx said:

30 minutes ago, nwohweather said:

It is astounding reading this thread and seeing the fear in all you northerners. Guys we've been running around here in South Carolina for two weeks now wide open, heck outdoor bars and restaurants are even full. There was a bit of an uptick but nothing ridiculous, in fact we only added 60 new cases today. 

I know few of you will understand and many will disagree, but everyone north of the Ohio River needs to get a bottle of Xanax and chill out. I feel bad because it pains me to see my old stomping grounds just destroying the economies, which will only lead to more jobs heading to the Sun Belt, but you just gotta be cautious and use common sense folks. 

There are just too many stories of people under 40 getting severely ill/dying from this. Some with no identifiable preexisting conditions.

4 minutes ago, Kitchener poster said:

Piss poor winter. Heaviest single snow storm total was 15cm. So about 6 inches. 

Have not hit 70F since Oct 7. I see areas with higher latitudes in the NE get 70s. I see Calgary get their damn chinook 70s. 

Nothing. Now I see another couple of snow systems pass me well to the south. Leaving me with cold windy air with near record wind chills. 

Ouch. I guess I haven't had it quite that bad, then.

That's why I prefer to shoot it with a 250mm lens!

Bald-faced Hornet Leaving Nest by Andy, on Flickr

Seems the preponderance of early Mays of late have been below average...

About the only one I can recall that wasn't is 2018, which coming on the heels of that abominable April flipped right to summer.

I had higher hopes for a warmer/stormier spring in this neck of the woods with all the talk of a coming La Nina and warmer than average Gulf.

Now we get the spring eastern trough locked in on top of a pandemic and, apparently, "murder hornets." I'm afraid to ask, "what else ya got, 2020?"

That said, the 50s/30s forecast for this coming week aren't really that different from what we've been experiencing. Thursday (my Friday with my Sunday-Thursday schedule) should be OK with sun and near 60. I do want to hear thunder, though.

4 hours ago, Geoboy645 said:

Man it is nasty out today. 40's, heavy rain, and high wind. It's pretty hard to get nastier weather than that this time of the year. I mean this is just pure march weather when it's almost may. This spring has sucked so much. 

4 hours ago, UMB WX said:

Last april around this time we had record snowfall. Aprils have been rough for many consecutive yrs now especially if you're not inland from Lake MI.  Guess that's just April climo.. Throw away month.

You'd think the upper Midwest could get a warm April with frequent thunderstorms for once (especially considering how many warmer than average/below average snowfall Dec/Jans we've had), but you would be wrong.

Wow. Storm surge on Green Bay.

37 minutes ago, madwx said:

too much festering precip.  oh well, our peak severe season doesn't really start for another month

I just hope we all live to see it.

Yeah, early sun went away and HRRR has backed off on convective intensity across most of the region.

Sun popping out here most of the morning in SC WI. Last three HRRR runs with a stormier look for us this evening, although the 12Z runs lost that juicy sup tracking along the Dane/Green-Rock County line ~22-23Z that the 10-11Z runs had.

@madwx

Argh, probably too far south for me on a work day same as a month prior (especially since I have to pick up an online grocery order and bring it home after work).

Steady showers here but no thunder thus far.

@madwx @Geoboy645 Here's hoping for a few rumbles this evening, am I right?

25 minutes ago, madwx said:

i feel ya.  It seems like the past 3 or 4 aprils have featured tons of NW flow with below normal temps.  it would be nice if we could get some more zonal or sw flow and get some warmer temps and higher dewpoints in the area.

Right?

So sorry for your loss, @Jackstraw. Those stories are heartbreaking and terrifying.

On 4/9/2020 at 12:55 PM, madwx said:

been a couple flurry storms so far, 40 mph + gusty winds precede each one and blow the neighbors lawn furniture around a bit.  strongest one of the day about to hit here

Hit just as I was trying to pick up my online order from Hy-Vee on Whitney. When I unlatched my trunk the wind immediately flipped the lid all the way up. Poor clerk had to stand out in it. Then I had to unload and wrestle the cart through the door of my apartment building in that wind.

19 hours ago, BrandonC_TX said:

With the COVID-19 pandemic and all, getting a major tornado outbreak (or just one major tornado striking a populated area) would be horrific, especially once you consider the need for hospital beds for both the injured and COVID-19 patients.  It would be much more manageable if the tornadoes stuck to rural areas, but that is never a guarantee; just look at what happened back in 2011.  Something like the 2011 Joplin tornado (which destroyed a hospital), if it occurred today, would be a lot worse given the current pandemic.

A quiet pattern is a much needed reprieve right now, and hopefully we don't have to worry too much about severe thunderstorms and tornadoes until COVID-19 quiets down somewhat.  But you never know, especially considering that we are now in the most active time of year for severe thunderstorms and tornadoes (April/May/June).

Yes. The pandemic has significantly tempered my enthusiasm for violent weather for the time being.

Very odd. Orientation of the risk area makes it look like a northwest flow event. We like those in June/July, not so much in early April.

U.S. Supreme Court also overturned the extension to return WI absentee ballots to April 13th. Now they still have to be postmarked by tomorrow. Those who still haven't received theirs due to the massive backlog are SOL and have to vote in person if they want to vote.

I see some people (not necessarily on this thread, although I have seen it once or twice) still like to throw around "socialism" and "communism" as scarewords.

So, picture Chernobyl. Dr. Fauci is Valery Legasov and Boris Scherbina rolled into one. The rest of the Trump administration and the courts are Zharkov, Bryukhanov and Fomin.

It's unconscionable.

Go figure, the best chase season (and potentially, with it the most dangerous tornado season) in quite a few years would occur in the midst of this pandemic and all the logistical, legal and moral complications it has placed around interstate travel.

1 hour ago, wisconsinwx said:

Man, this is hitting the travel industry like crazy; nearly half of our travel agent team was terminated today including myself (won't go into much detail, but worked for a relatively large travel company for almost 6 years).  There is no way around it, it's impacting every part of our life except the weather.

It's impacting the weather too (or at least our ability to predict it). Read several articles that reduced aircraft observations may negatively impact model performance.