TimB

Never worn a mask before? Have they been in a cave since last March?

“Captain know it all.” It’s going to be another day of mud slinging, I see. Can you simultaneously say masks cause infection but guns don’t kill people?

76 already. I don’t see any way we fall short of 80 today. Edit: except for afternoon clouds and a north wind.

They don’t in some situations. People who don’t know you’re supposed to wash them, despite this not being a new concept, cause their own infections.

Truth be told, we don’t really have permanent 80s any time of year. My recency bias is showing after last summer, when we reached our first 80 a month late and our last 80 a week early, but had nearly wall to wall 80s and 90s in between. Most summers give us modest cool downs that are much appreciated.

I agree with that. Allocating vaccine shouldn’t be based on red state/blue state politics, it should be based on who needs it the most. But there is a narrative among people of certain political persuasions that states with more lax restrictions are handling the pandemic better and fewer people in those states are getting sick, which is indisputably false. The virus is equal opportunity when it comes to infecting people.

So 22% of our nation’s population accounts for 44% of covid infections. Not good. But hopefully certain people take note of the fact that Florida is one of those states.

Not ready for permanent 80s yet, but looks like we’re headed into another cool period after this week.

HRRR suggests low 80s today, and looks like we have 3 shots at our first 80 between now and Saturday. Slightly ahead of schedule, average date for that is 4/19.

Fair enough, and all valid points. I certainly would say of the people in this thread with opposing viewpoints to mine, yours are the most reasonable and logical. The “face diapers” and “snow shovel in Barbados” guys are making you all look bad. And unfortunately spending a year on Facebook and Twitter during a global pandemic sometimes makes it hard to separate the “your face diaper is useless” types from the reasonable people with reasonable concerns. Edit: social media is the devil. At least on a weather forum we all (with the exception of a few that I’m still on the fence about) have a common interest.

So if “number of global pandemics survived” is directly correlated to one’s knowledge of virology, is “number of thunderstorms survived” a valid measurement for one’s knowledge of meteorology?

You got me. Back in the winter, when I was afraid to leave my house because of covid, I was on a Zoom call with a friend (well, let’s be real, an acquaintance, because I have no social skills or friends), who said “I post a lot on on this forum called American Weather because I’m cool. I know you don’t give a rat’s a** about weather, but they have this coronavirus thread where you can spout your hardcore pro-vax drivel. You should check it out!” And the rest is history.

It’s relevant when the vast majority of someone’s posts on a WEATHER forum are in a thread about coronavirus.

Good lord. Step away for a couple hours and someone with 11 posts and someone else who felt like going on a tirade against “liberals” hijacked the thread. There’s a reason I’m sticking to discussing covid here and not talking about things like Greg Abbott not throwing out the first pitch at the Rangers’ home opener because he’s salty about a decision that doesn’t even affect Texas. But hopefully a fair number of those 40,000 fans are vaccinated.

The models really seem to deny yinz a legitimate shot at that. We’ll get there in Pittsburgh, hell we’ll be close to it today.

Forgot that was the winter with the extreme January warmth that produced that EF-3 tornado in SE WI.

Again, that’s your opinion that any of those examples are more heroic than any other. It’s subjective, not objective.

Factual? No matter who you’re calling a hero, it’s an opinion. Whether it’s a soldier, a paramedic, a firefighter, a policeman, Sully Sullenberger, the passengers of Flight 93, the guys who got Bin Laden, your grandfather, a teacher, Obama, Trump, a covid task force, whoever, it’s nothing more than an opinion.

Do they save lives? Yep. Then they’re heroes. Also, I don’t know why this suddenly morphed into participation trophies in your mind. You’re all too quick to use buzz words that you think will “trigger” people with opposing viewpoints, even when it has nothing to do with what is being discussed. That’s what trolls do.

The anti-vax crowd suddenly cares about the people of Africa and poorer regions of the world, despite never having thought of those people once in all of their previous decades on earth.

Also there are three other vaccines that don’t have that potential issue.

A coronavirus thread on a weather forum. What could possibly go wrong?

“Snoops on.” Those people are American heroes if you ask me.

I strongly hope I’m wrong, but this year feels like another 2012 (the last year I lived in Wisc.).

Western PA folk like myself aren’t particularly active on here outside of snow season. My ratio is probably getting dangerously close to falling below the 2:1 ratio. P.S. How’s the weather in Madison these days? As a UW alum who got to experience that epic ‘07-08 winter, has anything close to that happened since?