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Even in April the gfs loves long range cold snaps. 

My wife filed for unemployment soon after the schools closed. We got the tax withholding form and it said no work contacts were required, which is exactly what the webpage says. Now she gets a letter today saying “circumstances changed” and she has to do 3 per week? Wtf?? Anybody have some insight on this?

57 minutes ago, supernovasky said:

It's almost certainly a lot more. Maryland is going to be in one of the best shapes of any state though because we closed schools much earlier than other states.

I didn’t vote for him, but I give Hogan a great deal of credit for how he’s handled this. I’m very impressed. Wish more people in his party in leadership positions acted liked him.  I think his response has saved lives.

Great thread from the SE’s @griteater on the winter fail for those interested

Some rain moved through. Didn’t expect that. 

Pretty sunset watch?

55 minutes ago, nj2va said:

I thought I'd enjoy working from home but I hate it -- Zoom meetings all day long....stuck in front of a computer all day.  70+ hours last week and approaching 65 this week.  I never thought I'd say this but I can't wait to go back into the office...

I think I’m basically as productive as I am at work, but my day is just spread outttttttt...

37 minutes ago, Baltimorewx said:

Cmon y’all, it’s Friday happy hour! Wtf, I know y’all don’t have anything better to do 

I may be working until 8pm but I think it’s time to start drinking now

With March done, 5 of the last 7 months have been 6F+ above normal at BWI. Just insane.

Ended up with 0.1” last night. Over performer!

Radar is pretty cool looking right now with stuff moving westward and eastward.

As Ian said on Twitter, good thing this isn’t winter as it would be a brutal miss.

Did my first mow yesterday. Weeds were very high, grass was mixed. Pretty green either way. 

Me staring at the satellite loop waiting for the wedge to break

38 minutes ago, C.A.P.E. said:

Good stuff here. Eye opening. You can also see the projections by state.

https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections

I saw that.  Very interesting.  What I want to know is if it assumes all the social distancing/mitigation methods continue into August with all those curves trending to zero in July/August.  

5 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

I think we're good even up in Baltimore County.  Note on the satellite how there's low level flow now switching out of the south.  As the mid level junk is clearing out the lower level fog and such is eroding in southern Maryland.  It'll take longer than forecast, and that may be due to the models lacking daya from less commercial aircraft.  Until this whole COVID thing blows over I'd take the low end of guidance and lean more towards nowcasting.

Wedge usually wins in March and early April over forecasts.  Hell, usually wins most times all year.  But I think it will break at some point.

44 minutes ago, Kmlwx said:

Finally back at a computer - have been driving back from PA, to the apartment in Columbia and now at my parent's place down in Colesville. Super foggy for this far into the day. About to pull up surface obs to take a look where it is. 

Eh maybe not. High clouds are about to clear but wedge is eroding slower. Can see that on satellite last 30mins

1 hour ago, Kmlwx said:

The front isn't here for sure. Sitting around 50 in Columbia and socked in with clouds and fog

It’s moving toward us quickly. Probably will clear dramatically before 2pm.

2 hours ago, PDIII said:

The thing about Pandemics is that once you know it is happening.. it is basically too late to do anything.  People are contagious before they are sick.. 

Except we had 2 months to get ready that were entirely squandered.

No more dark rainy days during quarantine please 

Thunder and lightning here now

Look at this shit 

59 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said:

USA takes over Italy for second most infections and likely will pass China later today.

Quite possible we pass Italy later today. Gonna be close. 4K behind now without all US updates yet. Obviously a ways behind still per capita.

Where TF was that in January!?!

Ugh go away clouds