TimB

“Vaccines work and everyone (with very few exceptions) should get them” isn’t a political view, it’s a scientific one.

Unvaccinated people are the foremost reason it’s going to continue. So it’s the same argument.

I would guess that, of people who are unvaccinated, there is a greater portion whose reason is “because Bill Gates/ liberals/ microchips/ that chemical in fireflies/ some gobbledygook I read on Facebook” than whose reason is “because I’m healthy and don’t think I need it”. You’re giving the human race a lot of credit here.

So you would say that “fat people are making this last longer than it needs to” is somehow a MORE logical position to take than “unvaccinated people are making this last longer than it needs to”? Yeah, we’re done here. Agree to disagree. Edit: Oh God, THIS was my 1000th post. Figures.

Correct, but I was trying to toe the line here and take a middle ground.

I’m satisfied with whatever June brings my way. We got historic cold this weekend and I’m allowed to turn on the a/c in 36 hours but still won’t need to for at least a few days.

My point is, nearly everyone would like life to get back to some semblance of normal at some point. Yeah, some of us (including me) would love to work mostly from home forever or not have people halfway up our ass in every public place we go to, but for me personally, people refusing to get vaccinated are prolonging the amount of time until I get to travel internationally again and prolonging the time I have to worry about the virus mutating into some form that my vaccine isn’t resistant against. So yeah, just as healthy people are resentful of overweight people, vaccinated people have just as much of a reason to be resentful of unvaccinated people. The logic is the same.

Same reason it’s completely rational for people who got the vaccine, no questions asked, to be resentful of people who won’t get it.

I will say this. I’ll take a good snowstorm over a severe weather outbreak 100 times out of 100, not that the two are ever really alternatives that exist in the same space outside of April (and I was very satisfied with this April, particularly the surprise late snow). And I second your thoughts on drivers, they’ll slow down to a crawl in a light rain shower or drizzle but won’t do the same for snow.

But is there? In terms of property damage, absolutely. In terms of deaths, the discrepancy isn’t nearly as large. And in terms of weighting these factors, I think death is far worse than property damage in nearly every instance, especially when people have insurance. When I root for severe weather, I’m absolutely not rooting for an EF-5 tornado to rip through downtown Pittsburgh at 5pm when everyone is leaving work. Some good strong to severe thunderstorms with 50-60mph straight line winds would be satisfactory. Besides, if I stopped rooting for severe thunderstorms they would still happen. Okay, that’s a lot of justification for an irrational and somewhat morbid fetish when I think about it. I’ll try to hide my glee if we get placed in an enhanced risk by the SPC anytime soon.

May should slide in just ahead of last year but still well below normal, but I really think you’ll get your well above average June.

You may hate the cold, but you’re witnessing history. We would have had to top out at 44 at PIT to set that particular type of record, which was of course never in the cards, but I’m happy someone in my home state got to experience history. And the 51 at PIT is the coldest high temperature on this date or later since 1956.

More importantly, if the high of 52 at MDT holds, it will be the latest day on record with a high of 52 or lower. We hit 51 so far at PIT, which won’t set any of that sort of record, though it’s a daily record.

Because you’ve pointed this out more times than your heart beats per minute, which admittedly isn’t very many, but still.

Yeah, but do you hear about overweight people under 40 dying from the flu all the time?

If we set a record today, sign me up! Edit: 51 through 5pm, we should break the record of 54. Coldest highs on or after 5/29: 5/31/1910 (45) 6/1/1910 (47) 6/2/1956 (50) 6/3/1956 (51) 6/4/1945 (51) 5/29/2021 (51) So it’s really only happened in 3 other years and only once at KPIT.

With that being said, if it’s going to happen it’s going to happen whether we root for it or not.

With apologies to @Itstrainingtime, it would be easier for me to root for a weather pattern that would help me but cause his vacation to be rainy (not that I am, since my weather here doesn’t directly affect what goes on in the Outer Banks) than it is to root for something that would give me the cooler weather I want while displacing hundreds of thousands of people, including children, in one of the poorest countries of the world.

Not sure if I can root for that.

Who knows? We can dream, can’t we?

Sure would be, we just need a major volcanic eruption to completely disrupt our weather patterns.

Indeed, it wouldn’t be summer without 90 degree temperatures being around on a regular basis. Except for 2004, where the temperature never even got to 88 at Pittsburgh, which is incredible every time it pops into my mind.

Indeed it does. But in all honesty, it does seem to do better than most with pattern changes. That’s why I’m worried about all these 90s in later portions of most runs.

Just curious, what model last Friday wasn’t showing 80s-90s for PA on D8-9? On second thought, you could cherry pick a day from just about any GFS run at any time of the year and find temps 20-30 degrees below normal.

Probably too late now, lol.