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4 minutes ago, RobertSul said:

I moved back to Mass after living in Michigan for 15 years. But what factories in Michigan were allowed to stay open?

All of them. Literally automotive voluntarily shut down, but everything else is running as is.

3 minutes ago, RobertSul said:

What Michigan factories were allowed to stay open? 

I see you're from MA, but in the Midwest almost all factories have been deemed essential. I know the company I work for has had no problems, we're even working in the NYC metro area currently.  

19 minutes ago, RobertSul said:

If someone drunk driving on the roads led to three other drunk drivers on the roads, and each of those led to another 1-3 drunk drivers on the road and so on, then you’d have a point.

Likewise, if COVID-19 was not contagious and was regulated to isolated incidents like in your examples, then we certainly wouldn’t have gone through all this trouble.

Well I think the whole issue is a lack of balance. So many of these governors look stupid in my opinion (looking at you Michigan) because THEY'VE ALLOWED FACTORIES TO REMAIN OPEN. I'm sorry but that's the biggest crux of the issue, you are unable to go to your cottage or even buy certain things at the store in some states, but can go work 8-10 hours in a factory with hundreds of people indoors.

I think we had to buy ourselves time, and we did that while saving hospital capacity. But holy smokes you're limiting peoples incomes in this instance as well as the economy's ability to produce and sell goods. Those are two very bad things

Based upon every other promise they have given I would be completely skeptical of any timeline they are projecting.

Based on every project ever lol. I can’t name one work project ever that came in perfectly on time

I don't blame him at all.  Too much potential to catch it, especially once the rules on restaurant capacity reach 50% and then 75%.
I'd feel better about dining outdoors.  

That’s what SC is allowing. Outdoor dining only which I think is the right move

Yeah gotta save the money, wont someone please think of the money!!!!
Also what you are seeing is a product of staying at home and social distancing working. If none of that was put in place what you're seeing in New York would have been every major city in this country.

Oh I agree with social distancing working! But all of precautions we have currently I think will limit exponential growth until we have a vaccine. Also our therapy options have improved via Resmidvir and hospital capacity remains quite safe.

But yes you do have to think of the money as well. We have 30 MILLION people unemployed right now and many businesses shuttered. Our economy is not able to manufacture and sell goods well at all currently, and we’re about to see a foreclosure wave that will shock the country.

Yeah it’s probably time to rip the band-aid off and reopen. We’ve stopped it from destroying our health system which is terrific. But economically this is becoming devastating quickly, hell the entire city of Las Vegas is probably going to be unemployed in a month.

I think I really didn’t expect it all to wind up being this horrifying. I figured it’d be tough, but we’re staring at thousands dead and an economic depression. Just think it’s time to expect there is no win in this battle

I feel for you guys

I am thinking we’ve had the wrong approach. Factories should have been closed and retail stores left open lol

80° and breezy with sunshine here in Charleston

20 minutes ago, beavis1729 said:

Here is the AWSSI index for Winter 2019-20, produced by the Midwestern Regional Climate Center (MRCC).  As expected, the past winter in Chicago was categorized as "mild", which is the weakest of the 5 categories (mild, moderate, average, severe, extreme).

Current winter map here, along with an explanation of the AWSSI at the bottom of the page:  https://mrcc.illinois.edu/research/awssi/indexAwssi.jsp

Details/graphs for specific cities here:  https://mrcc.illinois.edu/AWSSI/chart.html

 

Ah yes the weather world is the only place Moderate can be described as a below average winter and a massive severe weather event

39 minutes ago, Geoboy645 said:

Certainly don't see this everyday from water flooding in from the great lakes. https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=grb&wwa=flood warning Apparently the Fox River is flooding to moderate stage from water being backed up because of the winds and high water levels in Green Bay.

How deep is that bay? Dear God water level is at 584'

56 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

Some positive news coming out about remdesivir.  Shortened the duration of illness and apparently cut the mortality rate compared to placebo.

Hopefully won't be taken as "omg we have the cure, everybody back to normal now" but a good step.

It's good timing on this as well. As we are finding out our economy basically can no longer endure this shut down

Yeah in SC everything is packed to the gills. No one is going to sit inside all day when its 80 and sunny. They just won't

Humidity has ticked up considerably through the evening. My dew point was 61° at 8 PM, has since gone up to 68°. That is feeding these storms nocturnally.

Was not expecting multiple tornado warnings in Charlotte this evening, not bad for a slight risk

Just not sure we have the humidity today for this. I mean Charlotte is only 150 miles away as the crow flies and we had hardly a cloud in the sky. Not very ripe conditions for tornadoes

Helicity is really high up in the Charlotte metro area but these storms have outran their instability. Far too stable of an atmosphere for them to run past Charlotte and I expect weakening soon

It looks like a very quiet pattern ahead for us.  That trough is going to park right off the coast and bring 80 degree daily highs here in Lowcountry

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.

8 minutes ago, Wmsptwx said:

Dixie Alley has kinda taken over in recent history. Tornado alley has had its moments obviously, but it feels we’re tracking Alabama, MS, TN far more often.

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