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1 hour ago, Brian D said:

And so ends met summer. On the warm side for a couple cities in the area.

 

1970 really brought the heat in Brainerd

In addition, Chicago, Tampa, Miami, Harrisburg and a few dozen other cities have also had their warmest summer on record

This guy is good.  

Definitely a chance of tornadoes tomorrow in Wisconsin along the warm front 

>trying to forecast 240 hours out

>not using ensembles

pick one

Looking like a very solid late summer heat wave.   Will be ready for fall after it happens though 

looks warm except for Milwaukee and Dayton.  Will struggle to break 90 in those cities

Was up in the boundary waters from Wednesday through Sunday.  Got storms both Thursday and Friday night.  Was a fun exercise trying to predict the weather without any technology.  Could feel the LLJ ramping up each evening which was a good tell that storms were inbound. Nothing severe but some heavy rain and a couple hefty wind gusts.  The cold front Saturday morning really brought in some cool temps 

22 minutes ago, Chicago Storm said:

Real or fake Hawkeye?


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12 minutes ago, dta1984 said:

True, it goes both ways.  My point, the data doesn't seem too reliable. 

That's the tough thing about this.  There is no telltale symptom that everyone has so for a good portion of people, without getting testing you have no idea if you have/had it.

39 minutes ago, dta1984 said:

How do we really know though?  If you get a test and are positive, you are then supposed to quarantine.  How would you know if you never really were positive? 

if you get a test and are negative you don't have to quarantine.  How would you know if you never really were negative?

15 minutes ago, Jonger said:

I could see this for high school, but elementary this is a no-go. Our elementary is going to mask in the hallways, but not in class. My son goes crazy after 20 minutes... no way would he make it 6 to 8 hours.

I noticed the middleschool has plywood sealing off all entrances except the front doors. No idea what's going on there, but I'm 100x more worried about fires. I'll snap a pic of it if I get a chance.

also seems like that would funnel all students together.  You'd think if they wanted some distancing they would let kids enter and exit in different areas

13 minutes ago, NEOH said:

Pediatricians are recommending that kids go back to school - https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/29/884638999/u-s-pediatricians-call-for-in-person-school-this-fall

If the risk was great I doubt they would make that recommendation. 

looks like there is a linked article that has a more recent update

Florida with an expected dip in positive cases due to testing closures for the hurricane.  Deaths still staying high.  Interesting impact on total statistics since many of the people with minor symptoms who can't get tested won't even test positive by the time the sites open back up

still in the 50s as of 9 am.  Feels like early October here, quite the shock to the system

2 hours ago, weatherbo said:

Nice chill to the air.

Had to shut the widows... 53.7 degrees with a hvy mist/light rain.  I would bet the w/c has even dropped into the upper 40's at times  

 

Heading to the boundary waters next week.  Hoping to get a taste of temps like that.

7 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

Ok, how the hell do you pronounce the name of the current hurricane?  I know it's not "i-say-uhs."

ees-ah-EE-ahs

2 minutes ago, WestMichigan said:

Interesting that MI has ~12,000 fewer cases than TN, but MI has over 6x the number of deaths.  Are the doctors that much better at treating this no vs. in the beginning or has something changed with the virus?  Could be the specific population in each state that has the virus is much different also.  Curious to see what accounts for that large of a difference in deaths.

Michigan was hit harder earlier on when there was much less testing, so tons of cases were missed.  Probably close to 1 million people in Michigan have had it already.

1 minute ago, Jonger said:

Key word -- recovered.

80% of middle aged people had lasting cardiovascular damage, their average BMI was 25.  We don't know if this damage will go away with time and viruses usually do cause some short term cardiovascular damage but the damage from Covid is lasting longer than other diseases.

11 minutes ago, Jonger said:

But a recent study of 100 recovered coronavirus patients reveals 78 of them now have lasting cardiovascular damage even though a vast majority of them had mild cases of COVID-19 in the first place.

If you have looked into the typical symptomatic patient, it would shock me to find they aren't already walking around with cardiovascular damage as it is.

That's the thing with diabetes. It's not the diabetes itself that raises your risk of dying or having symptoms, it's the DAMAGE inflicted from the diabetes over the years that causes susceptibility.  Heightened blood sugar causes inflammation in your blood vessels and that damages nerves. My sister-in-law has RAGING type 2 diabetes.... commonly walking around with 450 mg/dl every day of her life. She spends the majority of her life recovering or weathering infections. She's 450 lbs and 5' 6''. She would probably perish from COVID-19.

Average BMI in that study was 25.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2768916

60% of middle aged people had cardiac inflammation after getting COVID.  20% with pericardial effusion.  Average BMI 25.  

Fun.  Fun fun fun.

Heat underperforms humidity overperforms.  Welcome to the new normal 

suffice to say the HRRR was wrong about the path of the MCS tonight

this mornings 3km NAM has a good handle on the current storms, just about an hour or 2 late with the development

I'm ready for the 2 straight hours of strobe like lightning