SnowtoRain

Summer is here 78.8/75.3 

0.12" yesterday and 0.04" today, 0.16" two day total, I'll see myself to the drought thread

85.6/73.9, the south wind is gusting on the shore today.

Storms stayed just north, 0.12".

6 minutes ago, C.A.P.E. said:

Nothing severe, but an impressive storm here. Lots of T & L and an absolute deluge.

A lot of lightning, but only squeezed out 0.03" of rain down this way

First day above 90, high of 92.3.  

1.25" for the day

Tropical downpours, up to 0.83" on the day.

6 minutes ago, C.A.P.E. said:

Stop at Terrapin Park right near the Bay bridge in Stevensville. You can also stop at the Winery(liquor store), which has a great selection of craft beers to build your own 6 pack, including the DFH high gravity stuff. They are in the Red Apple Plaza on the end towards Safeway.

Terrapin is a great park with good trails.

1 hour ago, Baltimorewx said:

@C.A.P.E. heading to Cambridge today to pick up my RAR order...do you know of any good parks in particular nearby to walk the dog? 

If you are in downtown you can walk along the waterfront down Water Street, that is a pretty section and there is a Marina.  Water Street is walkable  from RAR depending where you park. Great Marsh park is also 5 min from downtown, not much, but a lot of grass and waterfront also.  Sailwinds is near route 50, really small park with a beach.  Bill burton state park has the two fishing peirs, but the Talbot County side has a small waterfront park with beach, not sure how much in the way of trails.  

4 hours ago, C.A.P.E. said:

I made my beer run. Decently restocked for now.

You stop by Hair O Dog?  If so, are they doing anything different, like order ahead?  Wishing Well is doing that and makes it super easy, just drive up and they put it in your car.

1.42" from storms last night

Bowling ball incoming to the midshore

WHAT A DAY

14 minutes ago, 40westwx said:

oh yeah.. think about it.. basically half of the country was ordered to "work" from home.. to do their "non essential" jobs.. and on average these  are the people that get paid more than anyone  in our society.

The vast majority of people I work with push electronic forms of paper in some form or fashion. And they typically push that paper in some nonsensical bureaucratic circle to support some regulatory policy that was made up to support the bureaucracies that they create..

and then have meetings two or three times a day to figure out ways to make the bureaucracies more complex to make them feel better about themselves  

This Corona Virus phenomenon is beginning to make me think that our jobs are more or less a "front".  That the service industries that our economy are built on (like housing, food, transportation and entertainment production) are so efficient that all you really need are a core group of skilled blue collared workers to keep it going.  

Think about it.. the federal government sent home 80% of its workforce and nothing happened.

I always had this fantasy that maybe one day we simply paid the rest of America to go home and do nothing and keep getting paid (forever).. we could probably increase efficiency that way.  But there is one problem... who would we be sending home for the free ride?  White Collar America ie - all the electronic paper pushers who have "earned" their way in to a comfortable living by either college education or privileged.

And there is another problem.. how can we justify paying people for doing nothing?  You can't... because at that point the real Americans.. the skilled blue collar workforce.. would call bullshit.. 

With this Corina Virus stuff..  I am wondering how they havent called bullshit on it already.

This is pure conjecture and does nothing to add to the conversation

14 minutes ago, C.A.P.E. said:

I cant remember having wind like this since the last legit tropical remnants came through. Irene maybe?

Definitely impressive, peak gust at Easton Utilities of 50 and I had a gust of 30 at my station that is only 6ft off the ground and relatively sheltered.

Trying Dewey Beer Co. They Call Me Hey dbl IPA. Never had any of their stuff before, this is hazy, sorta sweet and smooth, easy to drink.

2 minutes ago, mappy said:

Only +15 new hospitalizations 

That's the most important number.  

15 minutes ago, DCTeacherman said:

Makes sense, but seeing as how this specific pathogen kills mostly old people those genes are already passed on.

That creates an interesting question than, whether or not a pandemic like this would have registered in the history books because it only has higher mortality in the very old, thus daily life might not have been affected to a degree worthy of cataloguing. This is purely an academic question and has no bearing on current mitigation efforts that I agree with.

The other question is with modern medicine (and diet) are we effectively mitigating the effects on the younger population, which in previous times would have succumb at a greater rate to a similar virus.

56 minutes ago, DCTeacherman said:

These are not good analogies imo.  Why would controlling this pandemic make the next one worse?  There will be new vulnerable populations by the time the next one comes.  It’s not like a forest fire that wipes out all the fuel and can’t come back right away. 

Actually, there is a grain of truth in this, pandemics are obviously most lethal to more vulnerable populations.  Before modern medicine the more healthy and genetically fit survived.  Those that survived had, in general, longer lives  and those genes were passed down to future generations creating demographics that were more resilient.

This played out during the bubonic plague (Dewitte, 2014) and on a catastrophic scale with small pox in the Americas.

Fortunately, with modern medicine we do not have to go through such turmoil just to have future generations survive and prosper.

As for forest fire suppression, the analogy makes some sense because through fire suppresion it has completely changed the environment that those species live in, allowing certain less resilient species to colonize and allowing other populations to take on traits less suitable to surviving the natural fire cycle that should have been occuring.  This creates the opportunity for when fires that do occur to become even more destructive due to more plant material present and less resilient populations.  That is why management strategies now have shifted to control burns to allow a more natural fire cycle to reduce material, help sustain native populations that are resilient, and also ensure less damage to infrastructure from uncontrollable fires.

Everybody stocking up on nicotine?

Just now, DCTeacherman said:

Are these 

Are these pretty common or is it clearly covid related?

Pretty common, hospitals like beds full, so pre-covid, on a normal day, more hospitals would have been under some sort of alert at some point during the day.  

For instance, Shore Regional on the eastern shore was on red alert quite often in February.  Since quarantine/stay at home started there have been almost no alerts.

Although,  I would guess the red alerts you see now are partially Covid related especially in PG and MOCO.

23 minutes ago, DCTeacherman said:

What do those mean?

Yellow alert- emergency room requests no patients to be brought in due to overload

Red alert- all ECG monitored beds are used up in hospital

Alerts are fairly common during normal periods ( pre-covid) and there have been less recently due to less emergency room visits because people being wary about going to an emergency room and less activities in general.

The hospitals on red alert have been on red alert for a few weeks, my guess is from Covid patients taking up monitored beds. 

If you go on the website you can query alert history. 

1 hour ago, C.A.P.E. said:

Pouring here this morning.

1.6" so far.

1.38", definitely was not expecting those early morning downpours

4 minutes ago, mappy said:

i always get a kick when people copy directly out of articles and it shows when your font changes.

Laziness, I needed to get the correct term came from Trevor Bedford's twitter, https://mobile.twitter.com/trvrb/status/1251334241087979521