TimB

Trying to find the comment in question... is it “anti-vax sh*theads” or “I don't want people catching covid because of their own stupidity. Do you?” I find neither to be all that extreme.

Tied our daily record low from 3 other years, and it doesn’t appear to have gone unnoticed by several people who were just waiting to make their unoriginal global warming “jokes” on the NWS Pittsburgh Facebook post.

I’m sure there are plenty of forums where you could talk about all coronavirus, all the time. Can’t say they’d be as generally civil as a weather forum, but I’m sure they’re out there. But I do think you severely underestimate the number of people in our society who believe that only the vaccinated should be able to enjoy certain activities with no restrictions. I don’t feel I’m blindly backing the guy that has similar views to mine. Again, all I did was state that the particular view you called him out on at that moment isn’t extremist at all. I wasn’t speaking in general terms, maybe he has other views that some would call “extremist” but even if he does, that’s not what I was addressing at that time. I doubt it was unprovoked. Anyway, I’m done arguing this point. You both are entitled to your point of view, as is Stebo. My views may align more closely to his, but I’d generally prefer to be civil and open minded.

You’ve been on a weather forum for 7.5 years and have 45 posts about weather and roughly 140 about coronavirus. You’re not here to discuss weather, you’re here to discuss coronavirus (which is fine, if you’re not going around calling people losers because they have a different opinion from you). But of course he’s going to be skeptical of that pattern.

I understand he’s a meteorologist. But I’m almost certain that makes him even more likely to understand that most of the general populace doesn’t put posting on weather forums on the list of “things that make someone cool.”

Do you really think anyone thinks posting a lot on a weather forum makes them cool? I would guess that’s a stretch for all of us. As in I don’t think any of us are deluded into thinking virtually anyone other than a meteorologist or fellow weather enthusiast would put posting on a weather forum on their list of “things that make a person cool.”

364 already?! Good lord, I’m on here too much...

Hey now, don’t lump me in with the other low post count people. I only jumped in when someone called your views “extremist.”

I feel validated that: 1. Someone actually knows and remembers what I’m babbling about here. and 2. There seems to be an explanation for it and not just my own suspicions. Beyond that, one daily record high was tied and one daily record warm low was broken during that stretch, both of which were far short of records for the month of September. On that basis, I’d say the NWS wouldn’t really bother with a matter so trivial. BUT, that is the warmest September monthly average on record at KPIT (69.7), though there are 10 Septembers between 1881 and 1931 with higher averages. If our temperatures were reading 2-3 degrees higher than they should have for a week, that could shave up to 0.5-0.7 degrees off the monthly average and put it behind 2015 (69.6), 2016 (69.5) and maybe even 2019 (69.1). (Side note: Good lord, have our four warmest Septembers in the KPIT era really occurred in the past 6 years?) So on the basis of that being the warmest September on record at KPIT, it might be important that the data be accurate.

Completely off-topic, but I’ve thought about it ever since the event and it popped into my mind again this morning: is there a chance that the record high of 95 from 9/4/18 (and adjacent non-record days where we got to 93 and 94) is erroneous due to a bad temp sensor or something? My recollection is KPIT was consistently running several degrees higher than KAGC on every hourly observation that week, both in mornings and afternoons, etc. (we know it’s very often the other way around), both during the heat wave itself and during the rainstorm from the hurricane remnants the following weekend - it seemed to be corrected soon after that.

Said I’d be happy with 1” and I’m happy with the actual official total of 0.8”. Low of 20 this morning falls just shy of the daily record of 17, but tomorrow’s record of 21 might be within reach.

The way I understand it, that subset of the population views masks as being mandated for “compliance” rather than for public health, and so wearing a mask “takes away their freedom.” By no means do I agree with this, and I think it’s asinine, but that’s what it seems to boil down to. The compliance thing breaks down a little when they say “masks are about compliance, not health” one day and “if George Floyd would have done what those officers told him to do, he’d be alive today” the next, so it seems like they want to be able to pick and choose when you have to comply with the government. (For the record, I would say you should comply in both situations, though non-compliance in either situation shouldn’t be punishable by death.)

The estimate seems to be around 42k for traffic deaths.

I guess the upshot of that, to me, is that if we assume the vaccine did cause those deaths, your chances of dying from the vaccine are similar to your chances that the flight you booked will crash, and that doesn’t stop most people from flying.

I’m not entirely sure it has much to do with people misunderstanding the stay at home orders as much as it has to do with anxiety, depression, boredom, etc. that was compounded by everything pandemic-related. That said, I’m slightly overweight but by no means fat. I’ve stress eaten a lot during this pandemic, but I’ve managed not to gain or lose any weight because I’m not out of the house where fast food is readily available nearly as much. It’s no more unreasonable to believe the vaccine didn’t cause it than it is to believe the vaccine did cause it, until it’s proven to be one or the other.

Don’t see these too often in April. Radar looks like heavy snow went straight over the airport. Will be interesting to see what today’s final measurement is, if anything.

This is America. What percentage of people who choose not to get the vaccine do you think are in great shape? Lol.

I’m sure we can find plenty of examples long before COVID of healthy 39 year olds who got some sort of mystery illness, went downhill, and died. No, I can’t tell you it wasn’t the vaccine that killed her. But I certainly can’t tell you it definitively was the vaccine either. And I don’t think it’s any more likely to have been the vaccine than some other reason.

I’m too far gone to get into athlete level shape at this point in my life ... I’ll take the vaccine instead.

What percentage of our population consists of professional athletes? 0.01%, if that? You can’t compare the general population to a professional athlete who survived covid with no lasting effects.

I’ll try to spend my afternoon working and not sitting on Twitter making a montage of all of the people with views on your side of the political aisle being keyboard warriors themselves, but it’s going to be tough. Keyboard warriors are prevalent on both sides of the aisle, and in no greater numbers on one side than the other.

I read an editorial recently that mentioned it. While I don’t think it’s a good idea, comparing it to segregation is a false equivalency, unless you compare the smoking sections in restaurants in the 1990s to segregation as well. To me, smoking, like not getting vaccinated, is usually a conscious decision, but being black isn’t.

Think of it as a “high risk” like a “high risk” day from the NWS Storm Prediction Center issued within the past 5 years or so.

Considering 2018 featured a very snowy April and 2020 had snow in May, you’d think people’s memories should be long enough not to be surprised when a dusting of snow falls 9 hours into April.

Seconded. Moderate snow shower, picked up a quick coating. 9am observation at the airport was also mod snow.