MN Transplant

Maybe the last 75+ day?  77 at home.

58 minutes ago, CAPE said:

Ngakoue is back home, and he and Calais Campbell are reunited. More versatility and added depth on that DL. Wont have to depend so much on Judon pressuring from the edge now.

Vikings are embracing the tank.  Ngakoue gone, Hunter is officially out for the year, and DT Pierce had already opted-out.  The remaining DL is full of backups or mid-or-late round rookies.

I think Spielman has to go as GM.  While he's done some good things, he's long been faulted for not being able to put together an OL or find a QB.  But I think pretending like 2020 was a contending year and trying to rebuild on the fly will be his downfall.  He extended Kirk's contract to buy some cap space and traded a 2nd (which sadly will be a high 2nd) for 6 games of Ngakoue.  Now the Vikings are in cap hell and aren't even a good team.  Thankfully Jefferson is fun to watch, otherwise this would be even more painful.

4 hours ago, losetoa6 said:

 

Anyone catch this article about a teachers union in Virginia.  They are pushing for total cancellation of in person through summer of 2021. And the big thing that stuck out was they want 14 days of (0)  community spread as a metric . That's impossible.  

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/521945-teachers-union-in-virginias-largest-county-calls-for-virtual-classes

 

 

VA doesn’t actually have Teacher Unions like most people think of them.  This is one of several “associations”, which looks like it accounts for 1/4 to 1/3 of the staff for Fairfax County.  They definitely appear to be way out there on the cautious side, to an absurd extent.

2 hours ago, CAPE said:

Some legit heavy snow falling in the Minneapolis area currently. Webcams around there are crappy/lacking.

6-9" across the Minneapolis metro region.  Earliest 4"+ storm on record at MSP.

8 hours ago, Yeoman said:

Really? The ones I know can't make it to the bus stop in anything over than a half inch of snow

We're talking kids, not helicopter parents!

1 hour ago, WxUSAF said:

In Sykesville for baseball and there’s a gorgeous sunset.

Had a great sunset/rainbow combo in Tyson’s. 

59 minutes ago, Yeoman said:

 

They are essential and should be absolutely paid as such, and it should have been that way well before COVID hit. Unfortunately we will learn the hard way in 5-10 years when we see the real tragedy of this virus through how it impacted this generation of kids and ultimately the country..

Virus transmission is a high risk for teachers in general, whether it be COVID or anything else, any of which could be deadly given unique circumstances. 

Kids are resilient.  

3 hours ago, WinterWxLuvr said:

One of the dumbest decisions I’ve ever seen. It’s a fireable offense IMO. You kick that field goal and you basically can’t lose in regulation 

Disagree.  Analytics says go for it.  You need less than a yard and the game is over.  The ball never touches Russ’s hands again.

19 minutes ago, nj2va said:

Bad call on the final play of the SNF game. 

Not that it would have mattered.  Needed a better play call on 4th and 1 to win it.

0.67”

Looking at the map of the central LA coast, that is about as good of a place as anywhere in the country to take a hurricane hit.  It is all unpopulated marshland.  Lafayette may get smacked, but hopefully Delta is in the process of winding down by that point.

1 hour ago, WinterWxLuvr said:

I’ll just say this. I try to be respectful of people so I give them a wide berth, and I wear my mask when indoors in public. And of course I have to wear it in school. But this, for me, confirms what I’ve thought all along. We are all eventually getting this virus. So I will continue to be respectful of others but I’ll not spend a minute worrying whether I’m gonna get it because I’m already resigned to the fact that I will.

The thing is, the longer that we can delay “everyone” from getting it, the better chance that we’ll have:  1) better testing, 2) better treatment, 3) a useful vaccine.  The President is already receiving treatment that wasn’t available months ago.  It is also possible that the virus strain could weaken over time throughout its mutations.  What we’ve been doing (distancing/masks/etc) hasn’t been a futile exercise.  It is giving people a better shot going forward.

21 hours ago, George BM said:

Scrubbed.

Bummed about that one.  We were on the beach at OC and would have had a decent view.

Models basically had it right.  Heavier rain out by 81, a minimum along 95, and then the deluge east of the Bay.

.49"

Wasn’t paying attention to the temperature forecast.  Impressive drop from 80 midday to 57 now.  Steady rain is on the doorstep.

Titans players test positive after beating the Vikings.  0-3 sounds like it would be a good draft position.  Call off the season!

BWI: 11/14

IAD: 10/25

DCA: 11/14

RIC:  11/14

TB: 84°

Coldest of the season so far here.  Consistent lows over the last few days:

Sat - 45.7

Sun - 45.9

Mon - 44.2

Adorable!

7 hours ago, Eskimo Joe said:

A damn good thread on improving tornado warning accuracy, it includes a couple of radar grabs from Frederick County, MD. Big takeaway is this research so far is only valuable if the storm is within 60 km (37 mi) from the radar site. 

 

I’ve actually read the papers on this one.  Effectively, they define a vector from the big raindrop region (Zdr) to the heavy precipitation region (Kdp).  If the vector is closer to 90 degrees from storm motion, there is much more likely to be a tornado.  The thought is that a narrower vector puts the Kdp region (negative buoyancy from the heavy rain) too close to the updraft.

The HRRR continues to have a very sharp cutoff on the north side of Sally today, while the other models have some rain making it north of 66.  I'd take a few drips for my grass seed.

1 hour ago, WxUSAF said:

Welcome to the last 48hrs of conversation! 

It’s not just a little either. Aerosol optical depths around 1.

~100 w/m2 reduction from last year's Sept. 15th (800 to 700, both sunny days) on my VP2.

10am and still in the 50s.  Excellent.

10 hours ago, yoda said:

yes please

 

This upcoming weekend looks like legit Fall.  Fantastic.

That N/S train was like a mini-Lee.