BuffaloWeather

Do you stain or paint your deck? The previous owners painted the deck and its start to chip off and was looking into staining. Any suggestions?

Starting Thursday into the following week looks really nice. Should be a beautiful memorial day weekend. Highs in the 70s with lots of sun.

Have been looking up how many people die in USA from various factors and came across the stat from CDC that smoking kills 1315 people per day in just the USA. That's insane. I wonder what it was in the 80s/90s? 2-3K+? https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/tobacco_related_mortality/index.htm

Had a client come in today that didn't receive PPP money and are hoping to get it before the 2nd round drys up. If he doesn't a 3 generation business is going to go out of business.

Coronavirus antibody test with 99% success rate approved for use in Europe https://www.jpost.com/health-science/coronavirus-antibody-test-with-99-percent-success-rate-approved-for-use-in-europe-626525

Can you imagine that map in winter, a perfect storm track.

Quarter size hail in Wyoming county

Honeybees don't sting right?

I take that back Buffalo is at 74 already today.

Buffalo hit 74 on March 29th. Still haven't beat that yet.

This is really interesting. Since the coronavirus is a similar strain to the common cold the majority of us may already be immune to it. This recent paper surprisingly demonstrated that non-exposed Covid individuals had reactive T cells to various regions of SARS-CoV2 including the spike protein. The possibility exists that prior exposure to colds caused by other coronaviruses may confer some T cell cross-reactive immunity to Covid. Some are speculating (not in this paper) those with T cell responses may be the asymptomatic people walking around. Alex Sette, the last author in this Cell paper is highly regarded in his field of epitope mapping and T cell immunology. I used to work for him. He is quite brilliant. https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0092-8674(20)30610-3

The thing is we may never get a vaccine. It is far from a guarantee and if I had to wager a percentage I would say its more likely we don't get a vaccine, and if we do its not effective or has worst side effects then the actual virus. So we either hope for the virus to mutate into a less contagious and less deadly virus which is definitely possible as viruses are constantly mutating or we develop herd immunity. Or another possible option is develop treatment for the symptoms, a band aid to help people get through the worst symptoms.

So border opens in time for July 4th you think? Around that time?

Lots of juicers in Cali and Florida though. Hard to compare.

Enhanced outlook for Eastern NY 5% tornado

No timetable given for WNY reopening https://wben.radio.com/articles/no-timetable-given-for-wny-reopening?fbclid=IwAR3R_zfRToOacIBunP46q_tJfBSaIUFIpXeuZkLt377Z5ycyDqMFkTxo9Uk

@Luke_Mages New York is a pretty healthy state in comparison to most, I'm quite surprised by this. https://www.consumerprotect.com/hot-topics/worst-eating-and-exercise-habits-in-america/

Gyms and fitness centers in Ohio permitted to reopen on May 26 https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/ohio/gyms-and-fitness-centers-in-ohio-permitted-to-reopen-on-may-26/95-57ee4e29-db5d-4ff8-81ae-fcf4ea8bd8c0?fbclid=IwAR2qjFnNp2bi8yWJDOmxpvxdPHnwpz-Fn_I62Gs536KtrTT0KjLWWaicvwU

Yeah I highly doubt we get to phase 4 before Sep 1st. And then flu season starts in conjunction with COVID. We may never see an open gym again. Our only hope is what Wisconsin did. They are now fully open. https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/13/politics/wisconsin-supreme-court-strikes-down-stay-at-home-order/index.html

Departure from normal for Buffalo, such a crazy year. Dec-Mar 2020 has to be one of the largest departures ever recorded. May: -1.5 June: -1.1 July: +2.9 Aug: +.7 Sep: + 3.0 Oct: +1.5 Nov: -4.9 Dec: +3.2 Jan: +8.1 Feb: +3.1 Mar: +7.3 April: -2.5 12 month Average: +1.65

Average High/Low today is 66/47

The real warmth looks delayed but I think it still comes.