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Roughly 1 American every minute is dying of this thing. It's causing the equivalent of a 9/11 or Hurricane Katrina every 2-3 days. bUT IT haS a 99.5$ survIval RAtE... The problem is, when you have such an enormous number of cases, 0.5% of that is still a big number. That (plus the several more percent who get severely ill but survive) is also more than enough to burn out every ICU doctor and nurse in the country.

What's it like to be a TV met there?

Not too excited about what this system and the other ones coming down the pipe have had to offer in the severe department especially considering what this time of year is capable of (11/10/02, 11/15 & 27/05, 11/17/13, 12/1/18).

Nice flocking on the windward side of trees, signs and other objects. First Snow of Winter 2020-21 by Andy, on Flickr First Snow of Winter 2020-21 2 by Andy, on Flickr

FIFY.

It would seem insane RI close to land is not just an Atlantic/GoM phenomenon this year.

This is how I feel about spring and severe weather. Not wasting 2/3 of it on moisture-scouring cold fronts, getting 2 or 3 "setups" that may or may not bust, then flipping right to summer doldrums. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

From the beginning it caught my attention that COVID-19 was causing daily death tolls in Italy greater than just about all the weather disasters in the U.S. this century apart from Hurricane Katrina. That's when I knew this was no flu.

Rage-tweeting and spamming lawsuits in MI, PA, WI, GA, AZ and NV.

My fiancée's father lives in San Antonio. He's in his 70s with multiple health issues (diabetes, kidney dialysis) Part of our reasoning for postponing our wedding (which should have happened this month) was to avoid potential exposure to him and other high-risk people in the family so they can be around when we have it next year.

As a *not* winter-lover, I saw "record strong polar vortex" and freaked out a bit...then remembered a strong vortex is what keeps the cold bottled up to the north, right?

Thankfully, "Marco" turned out to be a big ol' nothingburger (it was supposed to be part of the much-ballyhooed "double trouble" of late August), so the call-and-response can possibly occur again in 2026.

FWIW the line between a "stormy Nina" and a dry Nina for the Midwest seems to be a fine one. I'm not particularly well versed in what to look for to predict the difference. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

How about rise up against the f***-ing VIRUS?

Wrong thread.

One of these with some real CAPE, please. Remember 12/1/18? Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

Would go totally against what the CFS is advertising for the extended. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

Nina winter could go either way, at least for southern Wisconsin. Could be epic like '07-'08, could be MIA like 2011-12. Personally I'm fine with the Twin Cities getting all the fun in November while we remain relatively mild.

Exactly. The greatest benefit is if both you and the infected person are masked. Second best is if the infected person is wearing a mask. If just you are wearing a mask (assuming it's not a N95) the benefit is considerably reduced but non-zero.

It did appear to be moving east-northeast for a time, but now looks to be finally on a more northerly course.

I guess one aspect of today's weather I didn't really think about what with the rain/storms and temperature change in the forecast was the post-frontal wind. It's howling out there. Gusts up to 45 MPH in the forecast here.

Goes to show some of those "crazy" model runs were perhaps on to something...granted any one of them was not particularly likely to be accurate, but weird stalls, loop-de-loops, etc were definitely on the table.

Tell that to my 35-year-old fiancee who had COVID in August and was hospitalized for 3 days (although not in the ICU, didn't need supplemental oxygen/ventilation). She seemed to be steadily on the mend for about 6 weeks then backslid significantly starting about mid-October. Every day it has been some combination of shortness of breath, fatigue/lethargy, headaches, stomach issues (basically all the symptoms she had when she actually had the infection itself, other than the cough) and skyrocketing blood pressure. I took her back to the hospital today to try to get it under control because the doctors are concerned it is causing kidney/eye damage and the medications she can take at home aren't working.

Solid overcast, periodic rain and quite chilly in Madison early this afternoon. Although we were kept in the slight risk/5% TOR zone for 1630, pretty clear nothing is going to happen around here unless the warm sector abruptly gets yanked over us, but I don't believe this was supposed to be that kind of setup.