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I cut the grass for the first time on Sunday. It already needs it again. Welcome to spring.

RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 500 PM EST WED APR 07 2021 ...RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE AT FORT WAYNE... THROUGH 500 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON, THE HIGH TEMPERATURE AT FORT WAYNE IS 81 DEGREES. THIS TIES THE OLD RECORD OF 81 SET IN 1929 AND 1954.

LOL at this morning's IND discussion: THE LAST PIECE OF THE PUZZLE IS ON HOW WARM TEMPS WILL BECOME. DRY PARCELS TEND TO GET MORE EXCITED AND RAPIDLY WARM TEMPS LIKE BEING OVERCAFFEINATED, THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE THE CASE TODAY. WITH MOISTENING PARCELS THEY TEND TO BE LESS EXCITED ABOUT WARMING, AND NEEDING MORE COFFEE TO GET MOTIVATED IN REALIZING THEIR POTENTIAL. EDIT: ....And IWX: AFTER RAIN ENDS WITH THIS SYSTEM ON SUNDAY, CONFIDENCE IN THE REST OF THE FORECAST EARLY NEXT WEEK IS BELOW AVERAGE GIVEN A VERY DISCOMBOBULATED UPPER AIR PATTERN WITH THE GFS COMPLETELY OUT OF PHASE WITH THE ECMWF. I love these technical explanations

I want to take a minute and thank Hoosier for allowing this thread to keep going. He has caught a lot of flack, even though he has done an admirable job of trying to keep everyone in check (including me.) I have not only learned a ton of information about COVID and viruses in general, but the many different viewpoints concerning all aspects of the pandemic. There is an undercurrent of politics involved being masked as scientific data. Thanks to everyone for offering their viewpoints and information, even amongst the flame throwing.

I feel like the "vaccine passport" would be a waste of time. I remember getting a fake ID 45 years ago so I could go into a bar. Any anti-vaxer that wants to travel could easily do the same thing.

My county achieved 25% of our population 18 and over and 75% of our population 65 and over fully vaccinated as of yesterday. Of course, we only have 38,000, but it's still an impressive percentage. We are vaccinating around 350 people a day (5 days a week), so by Memorial Day, we should have everyone vaccinated that wants to be (~67%).

Getting lake effect snow here. I'm sure Wrigley will also be a treat today too.

The whole NWS network is down, websites, NWSChat etc. How does the whole network crash?

James Spann's house was hit by a tornado today while he was on the air. Another met took over while he checked on his wife, who is okay, but their home suffered significant damage. He then came back on air and told his audience about it. https://tuscaloosathread.com/james-spanns-house-damaged-by-tornado-while-live-on-air/

I really like that smell. It is the smell of rain hitting dry soil. It's called petrichor.

Wind Advisory in effect from 8 AM-11 PM Eastern for Northern Indiana. Pretty long advisory. Gonna be great, gusts to 50, upper 30's, and driving rain. yee haw

I am the opposite of you. I've had a flu shot every year for the past 20+ years, and haven't had the flu since then. I had no problem whatsoever saying yes to the vaccine, but I'm much older than you and a former smoker. It was a no-brainer for me. Additionally, I feel much more comfortable going out in public now, although I still always wear a mask when I'm around others.

I look for Indiana to do it soon. Once you get down to 40-45, you begin running into the age of people who won't get the vaccine. Here is a graph showing the average percentages of the population who received a flu shot in the US between 2010 and 2020. I'm not saying that the numbers won't be different for the Covid vaccine, but I'm pretty sure that the younger age groups percentages will mimic the flu shot numbers, although they may be slightly higher due to the publicity. When the State sees the number of appointments begin to drop by age group, they will quickly take the step of opening it up, especially now that the supply chain has stabilized.

Not in our subforum, but it could get very interesting in the South and especially Mississippi later today. I will be virtual chasing.

Indiana dropped the minimum age to 45 yesterday. Vaccinations numbers are really ramping up locally.

Yeah, pretty dry period. We ruined it with 0.2" of sleet here yesterday (on 0.09" of liquid), which unfortunately counts as snow. The dry spell will be broken as we're looking at up to an inch of qpf Wednesday night and Thursday with mmmaybe a couple more stat padding tenths as the precip ends.

All the biting sarcasm aside, that is a reasonable, educated decision to not get vaccinated. In fact, during the check-in process (at least locally) each individual is asked if they have had any reactions to medications or vaccines in the past and advise of the greater risks to those that have had past problems. I think most of vitriol is aimed at those, and there are hundreds of thousands, whose only reason is political.

"I'm really excited about the cold, blustery, overrunning heavy rain on Wednesday night/Thursday" he emotes with sarcastic disdain.

We had a few tenths of sleet accumulation here. It caused me to have flashbacks from you know when.

France is in particularly bad shape. https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/coronavirus/paris-may-face-new-lockdown-as-icus-fill-up/

It will end up being just like the flu vaccine. Most younger people (under 30) I speak with don't bother with the shot. It's not until after the first time they get really sick from the flu that they decide to get vaccinated.

If the numbers keep trending like they have in Indiana, would lift the mask mandate on the Friday before the Memorial Day weekend.

Same here. For several days, models were spitting out around an inch of qpf for our area yesterday. Final total imby? The big T. lol

You're singing to the choir. Not only has it affected everyone's life, it also has made my job significantly more complicated. I really enjoy public safety/service and had been considering continuing to work past 65 in a couple of years, but I'm now looking forward to retirement. Here is my Facebook memory from one year ago today.

I actually spoke about it at length at a weather presentation I gave tonight. The White County courthouse in Monticello, IN