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Damn looks like a solid tornado just off Folly Beach

A ton of energy behind the big MCS blob for those AL cells, and they're moving into heightened helicity areas. Would not be shocked to see some tornadoes south of Birmingham

I don’t know if I agree with the SPC and many on here. Probably will have egg on my face but Atlanta is already in the clear and it’s 11 AM. Looking at the mesoscale analysis there is a ton of CAPE starting to filter into MS/AL. Idk I just see this current MCS laying down an OFB for later on today

Yeah that blob of rain should be out of here by Noon. Georgia should be in the clear earlier than that

Seeing what happened today in TX, OK and LA makes me think we’re going to be in for a doozy today. Warm sector stayed fairly clear, and the flow into this deepening low should help aid any atmospheric recovery tomorrow. In addition the morning convection will more than likely put down boundaries for the afternoon.

Yeah this is obviously one of the hallmarks of climate change. In addition until recent years we have also seen a drastic decline in landfalling hurricanes as well

What is this Oklahoma? Dryline barreling through the SE just miles away from the ocean with solid lapse rates is absolute trouble. Also the lift in place will create more of a string of pearls type setup instead of a bunch of spinning QLCS. Other than warm front placement I don't know what there isn't to like about tornado chances on Thursday, and violent ones at that. With such good thermodynamic properties and lift, SRH on the order of 300+ will be more than sufficient to produce some monsters

Wow the debris showing up on the reflectivity

Convection throughout the day has limited both the mobility of the front and scope of this outbreak. Honestly this is all probably a good thing after the devastation we saw on Easter

That's what sucks about this. It is so frickin contagious things like schools, sports, restaurants, bars and concerts are basically dead until we have this stomped out. Truly terrifying in both its death toll and economic impact, we're basically going to kill the entire restaurant industry

I heard about this. That is absolutely terrifying

I don't buy that for a second. There is no way outside a breeze is going to blow those germs right into someone, haha I refuse to believe that

Yeah cases have gone down to like 160 a day, so very manageable for a state of this size

They've reopened the boat launches, and allowing the beaches to be opened up as well in SC. Also all retail stores will be opened up as well. I'm glad they're doing it as the spread is low, and they're putting in place restrictions based on square footage for all stores, requiring masks, not letting people beach their boats, only allowing 4 people a boat and asking at the popular launches for ID checks to see if everyone is from the same household. Unfortunately due to the economic toll we're going to have to adjust and be able to buy a lawn mower and sofa while remaining vigilant to keep ourselves and others safe

Shear isn’t as wild as Easter but last week was a once in a lifetime outbreak in my opinion. Numerous strong tornadoes almost all apart of a QLCS? It was one of the oddest events I’ve ever witnessed, but showed the raw power of solid instability and insane helicity. SRH is high, the LCL is ground scraping once again, decent hodographs, ample moisture, 2-4000 j/kg of CAPE, and strong wind shear. Things may not be off the charts but this looks like another big event, and once again night time issues for GA and SC

Great quote from a WSJ article by Peggy Noonan today... "There seems no way to avoid this. On the other hand each day America is closed down more people will be out of work and lose a sense of hope. We have to be attentive to that too. What was most disturbing about the 10,000 people who showed up before Easter at a San Antonio food bank is this: They were people in cars. They were not “the poor.” They were working and middle-class people in line for free eggs and bread in America. Twenty-two million have applied for unemployment since the pandemic began, and it’s going to get worse. This is a never-before-seen level of national economic calamity; history doesn’t get bigger than this."

What a storm for the middle of April. I'm actually impressed at the size of the swath of snow, this definitely looks like a 3-6" for the lower GL today

Oof this thread took off but honestly I’m glad. It shows the dire straits we are in with a shut down economy. One thing I’d like to say is with the safety net argument, there really is none for an economy completely shutting down for two months due to a pandemic. I do understand the clamor for a system to Canada as we have excessive poverty and inequality in this country, but personally I doubt any of us have a true problem with that. The majority of us have an insane amount of wealth compared to the average Canadian or Brit, absolutely insane. This economy and its rules are far from perfect but it’s the reason we can have 2000 sq ft homes, boats, golf courses everywhere, cottages in Northern MI. I mean there is no way around it, as Americans like the fact many of us can afford quite a bit of "stuff". I often am in the Toronto area for work and when I’d drive over before moving to SC it would just shock me the lack of commercial development compared to what we see in America.

You're thinking too personally though. It doesn't matter if you're giving people money, the economy isn't producing anything in that time. That's the big issue from an economic principle, we need to go back to making things soon

Regardless what we are seeing is people can’t wait much longer. They may have an extreme stance to protest, but people’s finances are getting rocked by this. Idc if they have take temperatures before entering buildings and require masks of some kind in every indoor setting, this country has to be open by Mothers Day. We have no choice to continue past that

And even then I received 10" in Bowling Green. Basically everywhere along US 6 got buried by that one, and it had quite a few lightning strikes as well. I believe I saw thundersnow 5 times on my midnight walk during that event

This thing has such shades of April 9-10 2016 which was one of the more memorable snowstorms of my life. The thing that is stunning about April snow is how convective it is in nature, some of the hardest snow I have ever seen in my life fell during that storm.

Again though that is easy for you and me to say. I'm guessing you are salaried as a meteorologist, I am salaried in the supply chain field. But my sister (23) is a manager at Marriott and has been furloughed, her fiance (27) is a line worker at an appliance factory who is down to 3 days a week. They've been decimated by this and may have to resort to moving in with my father due to this. Sure we've prevented many deaths, but regardless entire livelihoods and personal incomes are being destroyed en masse by this pandemic. So while I commend many of the actions, some such as in the state of Michigan, have seemed to go too far with their reaction to it. And a perfect example is my sister's fiance who now is living on 60% of his wage because a washer & dryer is not an essential product.

No lol shut down is only Fourth of July week. And then Christmas week thru New Years is shut down. Again though all of these arguments are cancelled by the fact basically every manufacturing business is somehow essential. That’s my point, why is the government telling us what we can and can’t buy but then allowing all factories to run as is. Mask wise the demand is so high because every company is buying them in bulk it doesn’t really matter if construction people are using them, right now everyone is. But believe me the auto industry will be decimated by this. Sales will plummet from this and companies will be so loaded with debt they won’t buy fleet trucks for business purposes. This nation is driven by automotive, defense, heavy duty machinery (Caterpillar) and most of all aerospace manufacturing. Having these industries falter will rattle supply chains and wallets across America.

Nah I live in suburban Charleston, SC. I golf 3 times a week and swim daily because our government has not gone overboard on things. But regardless these extreme rules are going to destroy the economy of Michigan. So yes telling people they cannot buy a bag of mulch or a gallon of paint is bad because that means less people going to work. That’s the thing, many factories and companies are still running where it’s really going to spread, not a damn Home Depot. So what is going to happen is tons of people are going to be laid off at those stores, and then tons of people who make the product will be as well since only “essential” things can be sold. It is a fine balance needed to get through this, because especially Michigan is going to be gutted by this as the auto industry is destroyed