madwx

Mr. Covid’s Wild Ride never ends

Gonna be very close to our normal July rain total already with rain only falling on 2 days this month

So much lightning with these storms. Gonna get a hefty rain total as well

Madison tagged 90 again today. 5 days in a row now

Saturday looking potentially interesting in Wisconsin on the NAM and 3km NAM.

we're going to have outflow boundaries galore over southern Wisconsin so that might be able to elevate some storms from an average t-storm day.

looks like another MCV/shortwave rolling along the Minnesota Iowa border through the afternoon and reaching Illinois/Wisconsin just after peak heating.

looks humid, corn is gonna be chest high by the 4th

Yeah I’d kill for even a late night MCS with vivid lightning. The pattern has been really wonky this year

Friday looking more and more interesting for S Wisconsin

there is no scientific reason why the virus will be more deadly for young people in the future. In fact most diseases become less deadly as time goes on since the less deadly strains are more likely to spread. The 1918 influenza was abnormal in the fact that it became more deadly with the second wave

best summer climo

snowing in Laramie, Wyoming right now if you thought our non-snow season wasn't short enough in the Midwest.

Many Americans have been unhappy for years. With the leadership gap at the top and the pandemic putting more pressure on the lower and middle class this was inevitable unfortunately.

https://www.al.com/news/2020/05/montgomery-running-out-of-icu-beds-as-coronavirus-cases-double-in-may.html the virus is just withering in the heat

https://www.al.com/news/2020/05/montgomery-running-out-of-icu-beds-as-coronavirus-cases-double-in-may.html Summer won't save us if we don't keep up social distancing measures of no large gatherings and limited people in group indoor spaces.

It's a lot easier to get Gulf of Mexico moisture when the GOM is in your front yard.

hundreds of millions of years ago, the midwest was under a shallow sea. I always thought it would be cool to see what that would be like, what I didn't know is that I'd get to see it in my lifetime.

It's crazy how much wetter the 30 year climate means will be when the data set changes from 1981-2010 to 1991-2020 For MSN Jan 1.23" -> 1.46" Feb 1.45" -> 1.52" Mar 2.19" -> 2.26" Apr 3.40" -> 3.78" May 3.55" -> 4.02" (at least) Jun 4.54" -> 5.27" (estimated) Jul 4.18" -> 4.34" (estimated) Aug 4.26" -> 4.27" (estimated) Sep 3.13" -> 3.37" (estimated) Oct 2.40" -> 2.73" (estimated) Nov 2.39" -> 2.21" (estimated) Dec 1.75" -> 1.71" (estimated) Only December and November have seen slight decreases in precip and some months (Apr - Jun, Sep - Oct) have seen significant increases in precip.

also its crazy that most of Kansas has not had a tornado watch yet this year. In fact the state only had its first tornado last night.

Look at how paltry tornado watches have been across the northern half of the area the past year (or couple years)

Yeah, I've been doing calculations of how much of each state has been infected based on the fatalities and an assumed fatality rate of 0.7% and I have about 3.5% of people in Indiana infected right now which seems to match that data. Based on that only 4 states have had more than 10% of the population infected, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts. And 15 states have had less than 1% of people infected.

Overall I’d say better. It doesn’t overmix like the HRRR does and has a more realistic convective representation than the 3KNAM. It’s not perfect but definitely an upgrade. It’s nailed a couple events in the past month that the others have whiffed on

Honestly this pandemic has been great motivation for me to get back in shape. With the lack of things to do/lack of places to eat out and the general fact that this hits people in poor health harder I’ve been working out more than I ever had. Lost 20 pounds since early March and hope to keep it going

I just got done with a good workout, I'm sitting out on the patio and I'm about to grill some dinner, I haven't been this chilled in awhile. I don't want to antagonize, we're all in this together and you have a lot of good points, but when I see incorrect information being used and I have the correct data, I have an obligation to spread the correct information. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ This site has more updated values (they scrape the data daily from each states websites), where you'll see that South Carolina is one of the laggards(along with a handful of midwestern states). Sure South Carolina is doing some good things, like loosening the lockdown, having a reasonable reopening strategy etc. but testing ain't one of those things, and until testing is an order of magnitude better, you (and a lot of other states) won't truly be in front of this