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Encouraging that the measures taken in Europe are reducing the daily new cases there and will reduce the death tolls soon. Hopefully the same can happen here but the holidays, fatigue and “the vaccine’s coming so we can relax”, and lack of National strategy might shoot us in the foot. Hopefully not. Europe had more centralized and strict measures taken.

Seems like the worst this time is in western NY so far but it can take off down here very fast also.

Really not looking good today. We were less than 10 deaths below the record in April yesterday and looks like we’ll shoot over that today with big states not yet in. Part of it’s backlog from the holiday but the hospitalization trends mean the death tolls will keep going up for probably 2 weeks even if the hospitalizations stop increasing today. That plus overwhelmed hospitals mean more will die than need to. Horrible. The vaccines can’t come soon enough, but it won’t be in time to help in the cold season when they’re really needed. It’ll really help starting when the weather warms up.

Just had a big gust here with a heavy rain shower. Trees notably swaying.

From the look of it this should be an advisory wind event. High wind criteria is 57mph or over I believe.

I guess you can say I’m a Lincoln Project Republican lol. A disgrace is a disgrace no matter which party has power. And this is up there with the worst ever among people who have any honesty.

Couple the number of deaths with the fact we’re economically suffering much more than we need to and the disgrace by our “leaders” gets compounded even more. No one can say either that we didn’t see this huge fall wave coming. It was predicted many months ago and we just didn’t prepare or take the precautions seriously.

Bad as it is there will be probably double this number per day 3 weeks from now. Even if we turned on a dime and all socially distanced and wore masks tomorrow, it wouldn’t make a difference for several weeks. Trump and his enablers have been absolutely disgraceful through this whole pandemic, no doubt about that. 2/3 or more of these deaths could have been avoided with a cogent national strategy, or even if Trump didn’t mock masks and didn’t hold superspreader rallies. Germany and Canada having 3-4x fewer deaths per capita shows how badly we failed, much less countries like Australia, S Korea and New Zealand. A few years ago we were rated as having the BEST preparedness for a pandemic.

201k cases so far today, so we’re still going up. Meanwhile Europe has plateaued or is declining now. Deaths there are still very high but should also start declining in 10 days or so. Here still much more pain to come and much will be self inflicted.

Yep, essentially shuts cold air down from getting south of the border and floods the continent with Pacific air.

It happened here in April and was quite grim with morgue trucks outside the hospitals. Really hope the rest of the country isn’t headed that way.

Yep. Unfortunately that’s the consequence of the overwhelmed hospitals-quality of care goes down due to the staff shortages, filled facilities and burnout. We have better treatments now than when it was horrendous here in NYC in April but we can only take care of so many people.

We need Congress to get their collective head out of its ass and get to work and pass a stimulus that would allow businesses to close without going completely belly-up. Right now there would be mass layoffs and closures that businesses wouldn’t be able to recover from this time due to no help. Food lines and the need for help are already the greatest since the 1930s. We definitely should shut down again but we don’t seem to have the will to take care of employees and businesses to do so unlike in Europe (where they seem to have plateaued and are decreasing somewhat in new cases now). Unfortunately what we’re headed toward is the overwhelmed healthcare system along with a collapsing economy anyway.

Also over 2000 deaths today. When hospitals become overwhelmed like now, care can be significantly improved generally but fatalities rise because of the burden. Unfortunately more of this to come. Horrible failure all around, from the feds on down.

NYC closing schools and allowing bars/restaurants to stay open is totally counterproductive IMO. The bars/restaurants are where the virus spreads, much more so than schools according to evidence, and it has huge economic repercussions when parents can’t go to work and have to care for their kids. Much of the reasoning must be teacher union pressure as well as pressure from bar and restaurant groups to stay open since there’s no government help coming, and it’s another black eye for De Blasio. It’ll do nothing to stop the spread and it causes tremendous headaches. We have some additional leeway vs other states for new cases but it can get bad here again very fast.

Low was 22 here as well.

23 here currently. Cold definitely overperformed. LOL as always at the NYC heat island.

26 at my nearest station. Hard freeze tonight for sure. One positive about the tsunami of Pacific air coming in for next week is that maybe Thanksgiving groups can be outside or ventilated. Looks like the cold air gets stuck north of the border.

Yup, areas of Long Beach that flooded in Sandy are essentially devoid of big trees now. The salt/chemicals/gasoline etc killed them. My neighborhood now was hit pretty hard in Isaias, lots of trees down.

Got down to 30.4 at my closest station. I’m in a more elevated area just E of Rt 110. My elevation is about 200’.

The constant Nina background state and warm Atlantic keep feeding it. Until the Nina background state goes away we’ll likely keep seeing it. As others have said it can be good in certain situations by keeping storms from sliding SE of here (“Bomb cyclone” just after New Years 2018) but more often now it causes inland runners.

That used to be my job when I was living in Long Beach. It’s a rough job but someone’s gotta take it.

10-15 minutes or so. We’re done now.

Resembling a hurricane outside in Long Beach now. Torrential rain and crazy wind.

So much for -AO typically meaning -NAO. The last few winters have done away with that correlation.