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00z NAM suggests the bleeding at least may have stopped, as it's inched towards an earlier phase and shifted westward.

It's true. Even the Mid-Atlantic can go several years without seeing much (if any snow), and then they get hit with those massive Nor'easters. Seeing 1-3" or even 3-6" of snow is pretty "meh" for much of the Midwest since it happens frequently. It's when you get the double digit amounts that excitement levels shoot through the roof.

It's all relative. Down south, they get thrilled about seeing any amount of snow.

They have been plenty of apps runners in November. They were just glorified cold rain storms. That said, I'm hedging my bets on the near-miss phase and strung out POS to the east. .

You can't fight fate.

The NHC upgraded Michael to a Cat 5 post-mortem. No reason why they wouldn't do the same for Zeta if conditions were met.

Yep. DTX just released an update about this: 000 FXUS63 KDTX 141411 AFDDTX Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Detroit/Pontiac MI 1011 AM EDT Mon Sep 14 2020 .UPDATE... Mid/upper level trajectories have taken the smoke plume from nrn California and the Pacific Northwest into the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region. Satellite representation and visual observation suggest the high altitude smoke overhead is quite opaque. So even though some of the morning strato cu has been and will continue to dissipate, afternoon sun is going to be very filtered through the upper level smoke. This seems to suggest more or less filtered sunshine today as opposed to outright sunny skies. So an update will be issued to increase sky cover today. Otherwise, the going forecast looks reasonable.

Nothing severe here, although looking at the radar, the line of storms definitely exploded SW-ward like ripping off a band-aid.

As of the 00z suite of runs, the GFS is kind of on its own with that solution.

Looks like storms are already firing up in West Central MI and over Lake Michigan. Definitely something to watch for the afternoon hours.

Point being, saying that higher education is "less essential" than K-12 education is ridiculous.

See my note in the location field.

If you had the choice between hiring 2 people for an administrative role with the same exact experience (clean background, can pass a drug test, etc.), except one has a HS Diploma and the other has a Bachelor's Degree, which person would you choose?

Well that escalated quickly. Wasn't even expecting it to rain today, but we're getting some pretty good cracks of thunder and downpours blowing in from Lake St. Clair after a sunny morning.

FWIW, this was the original Day 1 outlook...

Looking at recent frames on the infrared satellite, there is a bit of warming with the cloud tops

Welp, the posts about this Summer's weather being "meh" haven't aged that well.

It'll probably dive more SE when it crosses Lake Michigan. We'll have better luck with whatever activity pops up in Northern / Central WI.

Their leaders are finally admitting what those protests in Michigan with the confederate flags were all about... Michigan Commissioner Blames Black People For Virus, Uses N-Word "When asked by a colleague why he wasn’t wearing a mask before the meeting on Tuesday, Leelanau County road commissioner Tom Eckerle said “well this whole thing is because of them (racial slur) down in Detroit,"

Well, it is exurban Georgia...

Found this on Reddit about United Shore. It's extremely detailed, but take it FWIW: "I went there for a summer internship position, and for orientation they sat 100 interns in their small gym less than 6 feet away from each other, with only small plastic barriers barely separating us. They only separated the tables between us, so if we turned either way, we were still fully exposed to our other interns. Masks were completely optional, and I was one for 3 interns wearing a mask. We were sat in that room for 9 hours, only being let out for an hour at lunch, and 15 minute breaks ever hour or two. I quit after my first day there, anyone with a brain could see that it was only a matter of time before there was an outbreak here. Walking around the facility, there were hundreds of employees in the dogpits, sitting less than 6 feet away from each other and not wearing masks, some desks didn’t even have the plastic dividers. During lunch, their cafeteria was fully open with no seating restrictions at all, everyone was sat close to one another. There was no reason that their employees needed to be back in office. No reason. The only employees who needed to be there were sysadmins and maintenance. Everyone else could have been working remotely. This was a ridiculous display of ignorance on the company’s part. They put their employees lives at risk, when they so heavily proclaim that their “company is one big family”. No one deserves to get this virus, it’s terrible and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. In my resignation from my internship position, I made clear my worries about their coronavirus measures, and they ignored it. I wish the employees there the best, but this was completely avoidable had the company just had some common sense."

In Michigan, after the company forced workers back into the office... 53 coronavirus cases linked to mortgage company United Shore

"Strung out POS" has become the norm lately.

Georgia Students Suspended for Sharing Viral Pictures of Packed School Hallway

Welp... One man with coronavirus attending Ohio church service led to infection of 91 others