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His last post was on Christmas day.

I asked the same question a couple months ago. Hope all is well with him.

I’ve been working at the local health dept shot clinic since it opened and I’ve spoken to 2 people who reported any major symptoms (out of hundreds). A sore arm for day was well worth the peace of mind I now have.

I wondered how long it would be before you bumped that.

1988 is the holy grail of heat waves to me. It is the summer equivalent of the '78 blizzard. I drove from Indiana to Washington D. C. the middle of July in an F-150 with no air conditioning and spent a few days sightseeing on the Mall with temps in the mid-upper 90's every day. I don't remember the exact date, but it hit 104° at the airport on one of those days. The Mall was cookin'. Good times.

Should be the last freeze here also. However, with WAA not really kicking in by tomorrow night and winds going calm, we could still see a little frost.

No. I did see reports of up to 4" in isolated areas (pictures of backyard gauges on social media). But most CoCoRaHS reports were 2.5" and under.

Thanks for posting that. An interesting read. They are saying that as of now, the US death toll is 905,289 vs. the reported 574,043.

I caught 2.06" here. The flakes were flying earlier north of Fort Wayne (Noble/Dekalb Counties):

I sat in on a webinar a few weeks ago where they discussed that they massaged the numbers, but I don't remember if they mentioned any specifics or at least had any examples. I won't be back into the office until midweek, but I'll look to see if I saved it, and if so, will check to see if there is any helpful dialog. As you said, Ricky may have some answers

IWX just received a report of flakes mixing in LaPaz, IN in northern Marshall county.

Solid rain event here. 0.98" at 7 AM (Eastern). Numerous lightning strikes in the past hour. Seems strange though while sitting at 40°. It looks like our area is line for 2" or more total. No flooding concerns though with the rain falling over an 18 hour window.

Another forgettable spring in an ongoing string of them

It's a lot different here in BFE, percentages are about 80-20 wearing masks in stores.

Micro climate lol

We're in the toasty sector here. Upper 70's all day with light rain showers and actually feeling humid

Our regular carrier wears shorts as long as it's in the upper 40's. I'm like, dude, really?

Hoosier and ChicagoWX's favorite met was quoted by an IND met on chat yesterday in an answer to a question about anomalous warm temps recorded at LAF yesterday: "Chad Evans tweeted this at 4:34 PM today: Just hit 87 w/ dew point of 51 here at the station! All the fields are planted @ once, so these darker, bare soils are really warm! Noticed warmest temps are over drier, black sandy-loam prairie soils today at 86-88. Wetter, brown soils 82-84. He followed up with: ...noticed Champaign, Covington to Morocco....all really warm. Heat rolling off 1000s acres of that bare, black ground!"

My wife had similar symptoms the day after her second shot of Moderna. The following day she felt perfectly fine.

It looks like the Crazy Uncle may finally get committed: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56840169?xtor=AL-72-[partner]-[bbc.news.twitter]-[headline]-[news]-[bizdev]-[isapi]&at_custom3=%40BBCWorld&at_custom1=[post+type]&at_medium=custom7&at_custom2=twitter&at_campaign=64&at_custom4

lol You posted that at the same time I was typing up a reply. Yours is much more succinct though. lol

Studies have shown that F2 and above tornadoes are 15 times more likely when the MJO is in phase 8, 1 and 2. As the MJO moves through 8 into 1, it usually correlates with a collapse of the Pacific jet and creating a semi stationary long wave trough near the four corners, which in turn allows short waves to eject into tornado alley. Dr. Gensini at NIU has written about it and I was able to attend a workshop where he used May 19-30, 2019 as a prime example (map below). He is researching it for use as a tool in sub seasonal forecasting. If it plays out like it did in '19, a lot of outlooks of an active mid- and late severe season will verify. The GEFS forecasts this scenario from days 9-14 before going zonal (day 10 below.)

I think you're right. That would explain the discrepancy. Any way you look at it, the trends in deaths are the best they've been since the onset.

https://www.coronavirus.in.gov/2393.htm?fbclid=IwAR3CFm09EUk2AjKgLB0aSiJ1AQ65zVhb-lSFPjjhtdqCfhIna0ULNreHLAc