BuffaloWeather

It rained last night and this morning here. Definitely needed, extremely muggy this morning.

I love all forms of snow. But lake effect is my fav. Once you've been in a band dropping 6" an hour you'll be hooked.

My bad wrong forum. No such thing as fake snow!

My guess of 97 won!! Highest temp in 25 years!! High of 97 today at #Buffalo not only smashes previous record for this date (92 last set in 1988), but is tied for 3rd highest temp on record for any day. Last time we were this warm was July 15th 1995. #nywx

Comets are fascinating. Just giant rocks floating around trillions of stars within trillions of galaxies. I cannot even comprehend it.

This is amazing. What settings did you use for this? What camera?

Quite the contagious virus. This is a good dataset to see how many are asymptomatic. 97% of inmates at Texas jail have tested positive for coronavirus https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-texas-jail-nueces-20200706-bi24or6c5jcazhfu76urumhx2q-story.html

Cases are going to go up as more testing is done. As long as hospitals can maintain the influx of new patients we should be fine. Deaths are still declining and rapidly.

With cases reaching records highs and deaths consistently falling I do wonder if the virus is mutating to a weaker form. The next month will be very telling as absolutely no one social distanced on July 4th. 40k cases and 224 deaths so far today.

Some slow moving storms off to the SE

I plan to do either a NW road trip or SW road trip this September for 2 weeks depending on where COVID dies down.

Where did you find that data wolf? Can you post Buffalos?

When are you moving there? At least you're still in the forum! They have decent totals down there, and good retention at that elevation.

There are 32 Hospitalizations in WNY related to COVID. There are a million people in WNY. That is .0032% of people. Open up the gyms...

Except there are some really old AC/Heating systems installed in these large places of business, especially malls. Having talked to a guy who has been doing heating/cooling for decades in my office today, it would be quite the investment...What he is asking is different then installing a new air filter.

Cuomo wants to run for president soon. He's making this extremely political. First he said it was all about flattening the curve. We've done that already. There are only 226 people in the ICU in the entire state right now. Now he wants to make movie threatres, gyms, sporting venues upgrade there AC units to be able to better filtrate the air inside these places? He just placed the entire state on lockdown for nearly 4 months. Does he honestly think these places have the money to do this? After a successful vaccine is found it takes upwards of 6 months to even get enough doses to give to everyone in the country to have any type of success. Does that mean we are another full year away from fully opening without restrictions?

I was surprised, it was a full on blood test.

Seroconversion of a city: Longitudinal monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in New York City By conducting a retrospective, cross-sectional analysis of SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in a sentinel group (enriched for SARS-CoV-2 infections) and a screening group (representative of the general population) using >5,000 plasma samples from patients at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City (NYC), we identified seropositive samples as early as in the week ending February 23, 2020. A stark increase in seropositivity in the sentinel group started the week ending March 22 and in the screening group in the week ending March 29. By the week ending April 19, the seroprevalence in the screening group reached 19.3%, which is well below the estimated 67% needed to achieve community immunity to SARS-CoV-2. These data potentially suggest an earlier than previously documented introduction of SARS-CoV-2 into the NYC metropolitan area.

It's a failed attempt at trolling as most people here enjoy the changing temps in fall including myself.

I got an antibody test today as I was around someone for a few days that got the virus back in March. It was free and I was curious. It's a 5 second blood tests at Quest.

Looks like the hub cities for NHL are Edmonton for the western conference and Toronto for the eastern conference.

I have no issue wearing a mask. I wear one everywhere I go. I also wear one all day at work. I'm just talking about scientists being incorrect, and it isn't infrequently.

That's not true. It had nothing to do with the supply of mask. The CDC was wrong in their initial recommendation. Which is very strange because they had over 2 months to come up with a remedy in preventing a respiratory illness from spreading. To me it seems like common sense that wearing a mask would help prevent spread. Surgeon General: “Masks Increase Virus Risk” Wearing one can "actually increase your risk" of getting the disease, says American Anesthesiologist and a vice admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service. "There was a study in 2015 looking at medical students. And medical students wearing surgical masks touch their faces on average 23 times. We know a major way that you can get respiratory diseases like coronavirus is by touching a surface and then touching your face." Masks also can give the wearer a "false sense of security.” Also this from March...CDC said do not wear mask....Watch this video... https://www.businessinsider.com/americans-dont-need-masks-pence-says-as-demand-increases-2020-2

I think we trust science a little too much sometimes. This is from someone who loves science and the scientific method. For instance I had a doctor at Roswell who worked there for 30 years tell me in August of 2019 that my moms cancer had less then a 2% chance of coming back based on the latest PET scan. I just met with another doctor last Friday who told me my moms cancer is never going away and the only thing we can try to do is contain in and enhance her quality of life before she passes. That same doctor walked into the office with me and my mom and asked her what treatment she received, how she was feeling, what medications she was on, etc...It was if he looked at a MRI scan 1 minute before he walked through that door with no prior knowledge of the hundreds of visits we have had the last year to Roswell. I am also great friends with the dosimetrist who put together my moms treatment plan and have been for 2 decades...You would think they would put forth a little more effort? Not to mention the pathetic attempt at forecasting the weather KBUF has had the last few years. In addition to that the constant back and forth on wearing a mask or not wearing a mask. I sometimes think they do not know as much as we think they do... U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams made comments in February and March 2020 recommending people not wear masks to help protect against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease, and those comments began to recirculate online in April and May. As of April, though, Adams had changed his views in accordance with evolving recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and, to a lesser extent, from the World Health Organization (WHO). This is not including the ventilator issue early on in the treatment of the virus which likely led to permanent lung damage in people recovering and countless unnecessary deaths.

It's possible the virus is indeed weakening. Europe is almost completely open and has been for several weeks with few cases. US is more locked down then Europe is at the moment with 10 times as many cases being reported. https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-losing-its-lethality-in-italy-according-to-doctors-2020-6 Italy into single digit deaths https://www.aa.com.tr/en/latest-on-coronavirus-outbreak/italy-for-1st-time-sees-single-digit-daily-deaths-from-covid-19/1892183