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parched.

I posted this a couple days ago. This is testing through August 23 by state.

Perhaps. I just like to post the real stats for folks to dissect as they currently stand. With regard to the NE quadrant and the sunbelt there are a whole slew of controversial topics that can be unpacked: nursing homes, ventilators, lockdown vs no lockdowns, cases vs severity of cases, potential herd immunity, comparisons to sweden, state to state quarantines, age groups affected and so on and on ad nausem as we all know.

Yes, cases in the sun belt were exceptionally high. However, the fatality rate on those cases has been substantially lower as compared to the north east. Should add data shows the south seems to be improving and we have yet to see a correlating jump in deaths as seen further north.

No opinion here. Just some relevant articles that maybe worth a read. https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/04/29/delaying-herd-immunity-is-costing-lives/ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-28/few-preschoolers-catch-coronavirus-data and a little troll job for Stebo from Traverse City yesterday. Damn Southerners!!!

The upcoming 2020 Halloween blizzard when do the rest.....

^ I'm just posting real stats. But am I missing that California, Texas, and Florida are the highest testing states sans New York as of August 23? And their cases are also the highest, as you state, though I did not post cases. Caveat, there death rates are well below what was experienced in the northeast during there peak. So the graph to some extent supports your theories on testing equates to cases. However, to say the sun belt is not testing on a high level would not be true based on this graphic. The idea is not to debate rather to report consistent facts as they currently lie with real data.

testing.

we would need a noon -2 pm push whereas Monday's temps was sort of stagnant in the time period after the quick early rise.

Sources Johns Hopkins University; CNN Survey by Johns Hopkins University Published by CNN Source link edition.cnn.com Release date August 2020

yup. just beat me to it. Your Home Timeline NWS Chicago @NWSChicago · 38s Highest temperature so far this hour (1pm-2pm hour) at #Chicago O'Hare and Midway has been 95° at both airports. Warmest temperature of 2020 so far for Chicago has been 96° on July 7th and July 26th

^ yup. ORD 89 and full sun here.

yup. time to punt watering the lawn. Lost cause I suspect. Wife's first day of school with open windows is Thursday...so you know it's going to torch.

https://twitter.com/NWSDesMoines/status/1296609401999040512?s=20

^ that sure was a short thread.

Let's try the prolonged extreme heat one more time...........odds on 2-3 days of 90 degrees are the better bet. Stay the course...

I'm good. Monday's derecho will hold me over until the Halloween snowstorm.

I assume this just missed here. Plenty of damaged trees but nowhere near the damage this could have caused. Just south nary a tree down.

Power back on around 10 pm last night. Estimate had been 3 pm Saturday, Had it stayed it's course would have passed directly over.

NWS Des Moines @NWSDesMoines · 1m 11:50 AM CDT... 99 mph wind gust reported at Marshalltown Airport! #iawx

One clear way to give even more credence to this story is post a graph showing all deaths from 1900 through current. It clearly shows the spikes attributed to these pandemics such as the 1917 period and others. I have seen some of these around and they are most telling. I suspect the huge jump in deaths this year would capture these additional unreported deaths that clearly would have to be attributed to the current virus.

Northwest and stronger....

The better half is second grade school teacher. She's looking forward to going back. She understands that there is some risk of the staff contracting the virus. Less chance of the children becoming seriously ill. The hope is the measures put in place; distancing,masks, temp checks, open air classes when possible minimize those risks. She believes remote learning for elementary school and special ed levels is something that does not work. Her time in the spring spent via remote learning and class prep and teacher/parent/student communication even with maximum effort has left students a half year behind compared to where they would be. She knows the children that are coming in this fall will not be as prepared they normally would be. In the end, she feels the children's need to learn in as normal a classroom setting outweighs the risks that surely exist. Personal note. I commend her courage, and am proud of her.

actually is going to end up a beautiful stretch of mid summer weather.

if that. More like a 1 day dewpoint wave. Not going to get that 5 day 94-98 degree run I was hoping for this summer it appears. 4th of July weekend might be our peak length heat run.