TimB

Here’s a question along those lines: don’t some players’ contracts have some sort of provision written into them where they can be punished for engaging in certain risky activities (anything from riding a motorcycle without a helmet to playing pick-up basketball), where if the player is injured doing said activity and unable to perform his job as a result, the team can cut pay/fine him? Are these provisions okay? What if said risky activity is not getting vaccinated? (I understand that most players got their current contract long before the covid vaccine existed, and they’d be free not to sign a contract with such a provision, but would a player turn down millions for something as simple as that?)

Ah, but there’s the rub. Our climo doesn’t seem to allow for many days in that 85-95 range with comfortable dews once you get past about mid-June. Maybe a few in the low end of that temperature range.

As a Steelers fan, I’m going back to 2006 here, when a player’s personal decision became a liability to the team. Is Cole Beasley’s decision not to get the vaccine all that different from Ben Roethlisberger’s decision to ride a motorcycle without a helmet?

100% agree with the semi normal thing. But let’s go back to my scenario: if you were a Bills fan (or a Bills owner or GM or coach) and the team made the Super Bowl, but Cole Beasley and a few others caught covid and couldn’t play, and the team lost as a result, would you be outraged with: 1) Beasley and those others for not getting vaccinated 2) the NFL for not letting them play while having covid or 3) no one, because sh*t happens

That would be a very Bills thing to happen, going 19-0 and then losing the Super Bowl because Cole Beasley and others weren’t available to play because they didn’t get vaccinated and caused an outbreak among the team. If I were a Bills fan and that happened, I’d be livid and not spend another dime on the team until they got rid of those players, but I’m sure anti-vax fans would see it differently.

Remember the last time his name was mentioned in here?

Indeed, hoping for a 4th of July weekend everyone can enjoy. We deserve it after the last 15 months.

0z run had a ridge that looked like it meant business.

Tuesday maybe, if we’re below 70 by midnight Monday night. Looks like we’ll bounce back closer to average pretty quick. But yeah, looks like chances of hitting 90 in June are on life support.

Unapologetic card-carrying coldmeister here (obviously). Be interesting to see if that changes as I get older.

They seem to enjoy their summers with wall-to-wall gates of hell heat, so it’s exciting when any model shows that, whether it’s 2 days out or 25.

GFS is Exhibit A when it comes to illustrating the practical limits on how far out you can realistically model/forecast. Of course, now we have the GEFS ensemble that goes to 840 hours instead of 384. Wonder what the accuracy of that thing is at day 35.

Fortunately we get about 60 model runs for that to change, and we know for at least the next 5 or 6 days each run of the GFS will alternate between that scenario and a massive heat wave and everything in between.

I’m also in the camp of wanting a pleasantly warm 4th of July. Somewhere around 80 w/o humidity would be ideal. That said, 70 would be preferable to 90, and 60 would be preferable to 100.

@Bubbler86did you see the 6z GFS’s take on the 4th of July? Won’t post because it’s both fantasy land and blasphemy.

As long as the good stuff keeps showing up on the models, I have hope.

Indeed, GFS seems to handle radiational cooling a lot better than the EC.

But does the problem you mentioned arise here too: given that the Euro maps display in 6 hour increments, you get a 6z and a 12z. In winter the 12z is awfully close to when the low temperature would normally occur but in the summer the low temperature typically occurs closer to 9-10z.

Oh right, we got our franchise QB!

I still continued to watch the Steelers the last few games of the season even after it became obvious how it would end, so disappointment doesn’t faze me.

Euro doing Euro things. Slower frontal passage Tuesday. (But 91 to 64 in 24 hours in my neck of the woods.)

Looks like it wants to run some serious heat up the eastern seaboard in the entertainment purposes portion of the run, but even that looks to be more bearable and transient inland before it gets snuffed out by another cold front.

You’re right, I was only at 15z Tuesday before the front clears.

But feast or famine on the precip. It has me getting 5+ by Tuesday. Less than an inch out your way.

GFS still seems to be on track for anomalous cold. Maybe even running a degree or two colder than the prior run.