TimB

I keep meaning to have someone look at mine too, it probably shouldn’t go from 61 to 75 on a day with a low of 44 and a high of 81.

I’m choosing my battles here. If the models keep trending toward a cooler first half of May, I won’t even have to have this debate anytime soon. The other factor here is that she used to work at the dining room table, but sometime after last summer she moved her home office setup to the second floor, which gets incredibly hot in the summer, so that’s another win for me.

Yes. We actually had a discussion yesterday about how strict her “no a/c in May” rule is, and apparently it’s not as strict as I thought. Not sure it’s relevant or not, but she’s not a weather enthusiast in the least, probably couldn’t even give you a rough estimate of what the temperature will be tomorrow or whether or not there’s a chance of rain. (But if the rule is no a/c in May, does that mean there’s a loophole for turning it on in April?)

That’s an impressive trough. Lock it in!

I firmly believe this is nearly impossible for any weather enthusiast.

I’m 100% in the same situation. In any event, dews are expected to surge past 60 tomorrow, so that’s another consideration to make turning on the a/c in April a little more palatable.

It’s amazing how fast that happens, no matter how cold you keep it to start, isn’t it?

Marginal risk for D2 and D3. I’m not expecting any big storms but at this point any thunderstorm is a good thunderstorm. Wed. AM update: slight risk. Also, our low as of 8am is 67. We’ll see if we drop below that before midnight, but the warmest low ever recorded in April in the KPIT era is 65. Edit: low on 4/28 was 66 at 11:59pm. First April day in the KPIT era that has failed to drop to 65 or lower.

So much I could say here, and I had a response typed up about people caring about certain things when it’s convenient for them, but I seem to recall that being a big component of the War of 4/13.

But Wyoming, Idaho, and West Virginia, which are almost entirely white, are also on that list. The commonality isn’t entirely racial demographics.

Unreal. I know it’s a private school, but surely since children’s lives are at stake, there has to be some way to shut it down. If I worked there, not sure if I’d just get the vaccine and not tell them or go ahead and tell them and let them fire me and collect unemployment off of them.

I would argue that there’s both.

For a fringe group that is largely dismissed by the vast majority of society (and whose positions mostly aren’t based in fact), the anti-vax movement sure seems to be able to control the narrative when they want to. I imagine people with little to no medical knowledge are scouring these databases of side effects that may or may not have been vaccine-related and pressuring officials to investigate. It’s ridiculous.

I see the SPC added a marginal risk for just hail over a small section of South Dacovid that contains 87,000 people in this morning’s D1 outlook. Even they’re bored with this dull severe weather season.

Looks like warmth and humidity will be winning the battle more often than not over the next couple weeks. Hopefully that means at least a day here or there when Allegheny County is mauve (edit: the NWS calls this color “pale violet red”) or yellow on the NWS watch/warning map. Seems like quite a few days of low-mid 60s dewpoint hell coming up (in late April-early May - way too early for that nonsense) if the models are onto something.

All three are exactly average? That’s wild. That departure should go slightly negative today and tomorrow before going back positive, but unless something really wild happens we should finish the month somewhere around half a degree above normal. Really an up and down month, we’ve had a record high, a record low, a record cold max, and a shot at a record warm min Wednesday (record is 62), all in different weeks of the month.

I’ll give it a shot! I can’t imagine a peon like me could get any official climate data changed, but I feel like I might at least get a response.

I fully agree, no matter how sick of commuting to an office 5 days a week I was pre-pandemic, the early days of this lockdown sucked. Hell, there weren’t even sports to watch. And my wife and I are in the same boat, I’m in a mostly non-client-facing (except via phone) financial services job and she’s in a non-patient-facing job in the healthcare field, so both working from home with job security. But with most forms of entertainment shut down, there were even fewer diversions from the harsh realities of life a year ago than there are now, and the suicide rate still has yet to show any signs of a spike.

I would have asked to speak to the manager! But in all seriousness, I’ll sit down this weekend and compose something. Did you do it via email or social media channels?

I don’t disagree with your point that we still have yet to know what effect this pandemic will have on the suicide rate in 2021 (or 2022 or 2023). But we can’t definitively say it will go up, or go down, or stay the same as the (like you said) already horrific baseline. But evidence that suicide rates have gone down so far makes those who categorically state things like “pandemic restrictions will cause (or are causing) the suicide rate to skyrocket” look all the more ludicrous. It’s no longer just that those claims are unsubstantiated, it’s that there is now evidence to the contrary.

Euro seems to have a cutoff low around the same time, but in a very different place.

Oh God...

Oh believe me, “wrong” is my opinion. I’m hoping there’s never a repeat of 2012 and would almost argue that rooting for it is sociopathic.

To the extent that 2012 was a generational event and comparing any year to it is like comparing any tornado outbreak to 4/27/11, absolutely. I should say the ingredients are similar to those in 2012 (though maybe on a cursory level) but that absolutely doesn’t mean the entire Midwest is going to have triple digit heat for weeks on end in July, and the mere idea of being definitively able to say in April that it will or won’t happen is, indeed, laughable. I’ll save the 2012 comparisons for if and when it actually shows up on the models.

I’ve been seeing 2012 in this year since the late February pattern change. Data is starting to back that up. Still desperately hoping I’m wrong.