TimB

But it is June, so I can now turn on the A/C at any moment without a bit of judgment.

91 days until meteorological fall, but who’s counting?

Remember, I thought it was too extreme with the appetizer for this event before our cold pattern came back and I was dead wrong.

GFS and, to a lesser extent, EC try to break down the pattern late week. CMC’s hottest day is D10. We’ll see.

CMC might even allow some places in Canada to hit 100 (or should I say 38?).

I would presume being buoyed by a first half that was historically cold (as opposed to this year, which was just prolonged non-historic cold) can do that.

Yeah, there only appear to be two of them on that train so far, but that’s enough. Euro looks like it ticked up another degree or two from its prior run, and every degree you add is misery.

Bumped. Go check out what they have to say on the matter. Monsters, I tell ya.

Gotta lighten the mood a little before the Euro confirms our fears about next week and silences the crowd like Mason Crosby hitting a 51 yard field goal as time expired in the 2016 divisional round.

Sure, especially if you’re a Cowboy fan and people question your judgment anyway. Kidding, of course.

I can think of a current area of the world where it gets extremely hot and people wear a lot of clothing (I won’t say extraneous, because I’m not opening that can of worms).

I lurk in that sub once in awhile and I feel like I remember reading someone saying they’re ready for 100/80. There’s also someone in the Western PA thread that would like to break our 26 year streak of not reaching 100.

PIT’s early June standard is nearly untouchable (94, 95, 96, 98 on the first four days of June 1895) - the 98 ties with a couple of days in late June 1988 for our monthly record, and there’s also a 6 day stretch of record highs of 95-97 in mid-June 1994.

I would guess that May 2020 at DTW was almost a carbon copy, it was at PIT.

Probably too early to say this is definitively a “how hot can it get in the first half of June” event, but both the GFS and CMC have trended that way, especially for yinz, but it’ll get too hot for me here too.

This looks like lots and lots of pain. I guess we pay the price for getting an extended winter/early spring.

May finished -2.7 in the record books, and spring finished +0.8. I think the general public will largely remember this as a chilly spring, but it was warmer than even the 1991-2020 normals. I believe that’s 12 consecutive above normal seasons (spring 2018 was -0.1), though winter 2020-21 would have been below normal had the 1991-2020 normals been out at the time.

You’re right, my daily life is back to normal at this point. I’m going places without a mask, I can visit my parents without worrying about killing them, and I can take small vacations to other states when I want to without worrying about getting covid. Other people’s ignorance on the matter affects me in two ways I can think of: 1. Because a lot of people won’t get vaccinated, covid in America isn’t gone yet to the point where other countries aren’t skittish about letting Americans in, so we’re stigmatized whether we’re vaccinated or not and I can’t yet enjoy travel to the extent that I could before the pandemic. 2. There’s still the risk that if we let covid keep spreading, a strain will develop that is resistant toward the vaccines. Others in this thread have said this may happen anyway in other countries (India in particular, where covid is running rampant), and spread here, but of course it isn’t out of the realm of possibility anywhere covid exists. Edit: Maybe issue #1 is a personal issue of me being impatient and issue #2 is an issue of me being anxious, or maybe I’m trying to find someone to blame when it isn’t warranted, but maybe these concerns are justified.

So in other words, it may not be a decision made based on conspiracy stuff people read on Facebook, but it’s absolutely an uninformed decision by people who haven’t taken the relatively small amount of time it takes to research what an EUA means. I feel like it can be spun a number of different ways, but for more than half of unvaccinated people, the decision isn’t an informed one.

More recently, I’m remembering an early June heat wave in 2011 when I lived in the far northern stretches of the MKX forecast area, I know we got into the mid 90s once or twice up there. Looks like Chicago went 87, 92, 85, 93, 96, 95 from the 3rd to the 8th (followed by a 4 day stretch that failed to hit 70). So I guess close but no cigar.

But do most people in this category know what full FDA approval entails and what the differences are between emergency use authorization and full FDA approval? I would guess not.

Euro is on board with the heat wave too, and CPC says 80% chance of above normal in the 6-10 day and 70% in the 8-14 day.

That and not sure we officially hit 70 this afternoon. Going to be close. Looking ahead, GFS continues to show a lot of heat and humidity, but it showed a lot of that in May only to trend cold when it got closer to the time.

I would say summer haters like me have had our fun and today is the first day in a stretch of at least 100 days in a row that get to 70 or above.

I certainly don’t wish otherwise. You used to argue in good faith, what changed?