snowstormcanuck

Hey, thanks. Every once in a while I get the urge.

From OAX Regarding snowfall amounts, areas along the NE/SD border will see less than inch, if anything at all. Currently have Lincoln and Omaha/Council Bluffs along I80 around 9 inches through Tuesday morning, and 12 to 15 inches centered about 50 miles farther south around Nebraska City. The probability for 18" of snow at Neb City has now increased to about 15%, up from about 7% from the run last night. This information is available in graphic format on our winter website at weather.gov/oax/winter The heavy wet snow, combined with the northeast wind gusts of 25 to 35 mph could cause the some tree and power line damage. To add additional context, we`re forecasting record breaking daily precipitation (which includes melted snow) at both Lincoln and Omaha Monday. And snowfall could end up in the top 5-10 all time single day values if this pans out with the 9" expected, and ranked even higher if the axis shift slightly north. Interesting to note the all-time highest 1 day snowfall occurred Feb 11 1965, with 18.3" and 19" at Lincoln.

Looking forward to the TSSN videos from SE NE and S IA on youtube following this.

So, snowiest May 11 on record, snowiest May day on record, and snowiest May on record. It's easy when the amounts are all in-and-around an inch. lol. One more record cold night possible tonight then good riddance.

Writing the date in the snow made me lol. Great pics.

Add in the number of nights with hard freezes, the days with at least >T of snow, this is probably a once in a lifetime May for us. First measurable snow = Nov 6, last (hopefully) May 11, 2020 = 188 days. That's gotta crack a top 10 I'd think.

First time in my life I've seen accumulating snowing May. Josh said it best: crazy.

A few tenths did actually accumulate yesterday, making it the snowiest May 9 on record. Like you pointed out, that happened in May 2013 too so it's not without precedent. Now, if we do manage to pick up a layer of slush tonight, it'll be interesting to see if we've ever had multiple May days with accumulating snowfall.

Remarkable we even approached that record given the UHI impact is much greater now at YYZ than it was in the 60s.

15 years without a subfreezing May temperature at YYZ and all of a sudden we'll probably end up with 4 or 5 days this month below freezing. It's incredible. Noticing a lot of early blooms too due to the warm stretch we had in late March and early April. Hopefully not too much damage to trees/shrubs. These clippers love to miss us to the south and west so I was surprised to see everything shift back north at 12z. Gonna play a hunch that we mostly get whiffed still but we'll see.

-4.7c (23.5F) is a record cold temp for May 9 at YYZ, and is actually the 2nd coldest May temperature on record period. Just had a snowshower that dropped visibility below 1/2 mile. Always like to explore the limits of my love for snow. Seeing it on May 9, I can say that limit has been breached.

Cold and dry. Haven't seen more than sprinkles (or flurries I guess, lol) in 10 days, and April is usually one of our wettest months.

Might be related to the fact that COVID-19 strikes areas with concentrated population, such as urban areas, harder. Per the stats referenced in your post, Indy has a black pop. of 28.9%. Hence the higher numbers.

Just completed my earliest first mow in memory. Has barely been below freezing since the 3rd week of March, so shouldn't be surprised with things greening up.

" The KCDC saw a higher possibility for the virus remaining in certain cells to be reactivated, rather than for people to be infected again, given that they retested positive in a relatively short period of time after being released from quarantine." It looks more like false negatives rather than reinfection, thank god.

Not that it's a walk in a rose garden now, but it looks like the worst is over for Italy.

He was on the news yesterday. He wasn't coughing much but he seemed kind of haggard. Hoping for the best for him.

2nd day in a row our daily new case numbers here in Ontario have dropped (462 on 04/01 to 401 on 04/02 to 375 yesterday). Too bad testing is so sparse, otherwise I'd have more confidence in saying that maybe we're seeing a trend.

You called it.

Spain saw a sizeable decrease in new cases and deaths today. It may be just another mirage but here's hoping.

My theory on that is that the deaths are counted almost immediately, while they're is a lag in tabulating those who have recovered since it can take weeks to be free of the virus. I think once all the ongoing cases have an outcome (either death or recovery), the numbers should align with conventional thinking, with a mortality rate <1%. And, that doesn't even factor in all the people who have the virus but are asymptomatic, which if factored in would suppress the mortality rate even further.

Yeah, I've heard the same thing about the testing. Interesting in the news conference, Dr. Donnelly stated the projections were based only on confirmed cases. We know that the actual cases are probably at least 5-10x the reported ones, but he seemed to reject that that has any bearing on the accuracy of the projections. They're the experts, so I guess I'll defer to them. Yeah, I heard about that in Brampton. The $100,000 fine is the maximum prescribed by the statute. It'll be in the hands of a judge to actually impose that sentence; likely it will much less. That being said, some of these idiots removing barricades to access the park parking lots should get that fine, and maybe a couple of wacks by the cop's batons. Complete idiots. I was supposed to go back to work on Monday. I'm going to go out on a limb and say I'm going to be getting an email shortly saying that's not the case. lol.

Officials predicting 3-15k deaths here in Ontario based on current interventions (could have approached 100k with no action, which seems unfathomable as we only have 14 million people/almost 1% of the population would die). Still sitting at less than 100 deaths thus far, so either we've got a long way to go or maybe things will turn out better than predicted.

Sorry to hear this.

I think there's a kernel of truth to what Trump said about the cure being worse than the disease, but only if these lock-down measures continue for months on end. I'm hopeful we'll have descended the other side of the curse in May and, aside from larger events like Pride, some degree of normalcy in the economy will have resumed by the summer.