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Because many people were taking vacation and not at work. As I’ve said before, the worst spread is happening at manufacturing facilities and warehouses. It’s what’s helped our company quite a bit, people using up vacation time has stopped a lot of employees from catching it

And that’s probably best. With the amount of flat, open space and location away from the ocean that helps cold air stay longer, massive storms would shut down stuff for a week.

I don’t blame them in the slightest. Unless the government is going to fully subsidize their revenues to be closed they should exercise civil disobedience. Honestly as a weather forum we have seen so many major natural disasters that have been helped by govt assistance. With what is basically a contagious pneumonia you’d think we would treat this as a disaster and not let bars, restaurants and gyms that are not publicly traded to get full subsidies to allow for quicker recovery. Seems much better than just writing everyone checks.

Yeah. Last year me and my dad were hit with a terrible cough and had bronchitis. Both missed 4 days of work and both my boss and a coworker got it as well and missed time.

Good news! Came in close contact with a friend that had covid and got tested. I do not have it but did test positive in the antigen test. Turns out in December in Las Vegas the illness I did catch was indeed the coronavirus

Relax dude. I do this for a living, it’s not THAT hard. The companies will do this in collaboration with the government and it’ll have hiccups at first If anything the biggest issue currently is there is basically no contact tracing. I know Apple has it already setup on the phone, but few states have it. It’s absurd how we’re using identical measures to 1918 when we have so much technology on us at all times

Lol I highly recommend a green Christmas. I put lights on the palm trees this week! 60s and sunny is a hell of a way to celebrate the Holidays

Yeah these politicians consistently prove why government is the worst. Denver and Austin’s mayor imposed new restrictions and then boarded an airplane for vacation lol. California’s governor and the SF mayor had a big dinner get together with their families after closing bars and restaurants.

Unreal stretch of weather next week. Gotta love mid 60s and sunny this time of year

I’d like to post here more often but it seems I spend most time on the Lakes/OV threads watching my hometown of Toledo get snow. Since moving to Charleston I’ve definitely gone full heatmiser and became anti-snow

Should just close all schools until next Fall. These K-12 kids are getting a very substandard 5 quarters of education and it aids transmission. The hell are we going to see in the Fall of 2021 once vaccination levels are high? Too many kids are going to be behind and unprepared for college. Plus could save money if you furlough all the teachers at a reduced salary.

I-95 was absurdly busy today. Was at aunt and uncles for Thanksgiving and weekend (we all work remotely) and traffic was averaging 45 mph due to the amount of travelers. Was almost entirely New Jersey, Virginia and Pennsylvania plates heading back. Southbound was all NY and FL drivers

Well it’s why me and another guy who got a Met degree that I golfed with locally made a weather blog back in the day that used to have thousands of views during storms. It was crazy because you’d look at guidance, use past knowledge, and AFD’s from local offices to make decisions. But the disco’s from IWX often drove opinions because it was more robust and made good points. Figured I’d bring it back since I’m not in college anymore and have more free time.

Hard to collaborate with people who don’t have complete focus. I won’t lie some of the responses from the Toledo meteorologists are disappointing as well. WTOL’s number two guy said “enough to cover the grass”. I know I don’t have a degree in meteorology but so many signs point to a 5-8” for most of the area with higher totals possible to the East. It’s hard to believe being in the deformation band of such a dynamic storm with ample cold on the backside will struggle with warmth from the lake or mid levels

Well Cleveland is very Cleveland-centric in their forecasts and it shows unfortunately. I think 5-8” is a slam dunk for the Toledo area at this time

Rant incoming. This map is so infuriating. Clearly IWX shows 6”+ for the Toledo area, yet CLE has them around 2-4” as do the local Toledo mets. It’s like the local people in Toledo are obsessed with American models, so when the Euro consistently shows an amount on either side of the coin they don’t cling to it until 12 hours before

I think this could bust hard. No reason to go under 6” in Toledo

Yeah most have fallen. I’d say 75% of trees are pine or palm so you don’t see much of this anyways. They just kinda fall here, not much changing of the leaves. Props to my alma mater Bowling Green, nice shot of snow here!

I’m still here. Haha other than 70 and sunny there isn’t a lot of forecasting to do here. Actually only supposed to be 52° on Tuesday! May actually have to run my furnace

Makes you wonder if some places will be issued Blizzard Warnings. At the heart of the storm in that main band consistent 30-35 mph seems attainable with heavy snow

I’m kind of shocked. Went to Dick’s Sporting Goods and Target today, deader than a usual day. Crazy slow, let alone for a Black Friday

I still have my doubts on it not going west of Toledo. So rare to see strong lows not cut up towards Fort Wayne with big snows for Chicago and Milwaukee this early in the season. I cannot remember in my life an “app runner” in November. Maybe 2002?

I blame the Lions for the yelling and alcohol today

So I’ve heard. My buddy flew from Charlotte to Denver and the temp was 50° less when he got off the plane lol. We’re doing a smoked turkey outside, quite a bit of family drove in from out of town and it’s 83°. Can’t beat an outdoors thanksgiving in shorts

I wouldn’t say a highly contagious illness that spreads before people have symptoms is easy to control. I’ve said it a thousand times, have to close factories down to beat this thing down. All companies are doing is saying they’re part of the “supply chain” to remain open as an essential business. My dad’s work has an outbreak occurring on the floor. How laminated labels for beers is an essential business is beyond me. If you’re going to be working 8-10 hours indoors along side other people, it’s gonna spread