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Kind of interested in the tropical system that comes up the East coast early next week. The GFS keeps toying with the idea of a capture by the low that rolls through the lakes on Monday Tuesday. If these two phased up someone on the East coast, and maybe as far North as us, is going to get some serious rain. The weird weather continues.

I think supplies, experience, PPE, and possibly a treatment will be in stock by Fall. COVID-19 is a reality now. Mankind is going to work exceedingly hard at this problem. There will be more ventilators, masks, hospital beds, etc in this country than in any time before. We will learn to coexist and deal with this bastard, it just takes some time. It's only been a few months...

Every single summer festival has been canceled in Rochester through September and we are doing better than buffalo. I’m shocked they haven’t canceled all those things already.

Don't look at the consumer to jump start the economy this summer. Just like in 2008, when the future is murky, we hoard cash, pay off bills, and stop discretionary spending. Going to be a long time until we crawl out of this hole. The good news is that there is going to be a whole ton of cash bottled up in the system that will eventually come out as the depression wanes. In the meantime, hold on to your butts. I'm saving cash like crazy. My job is not safe beyond 18 months. https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/12/investing/jobs-coronavirus-consumer-spending-debt/index.html

I forgot to turn off and secure some outdoor water hoses and had a few blowouts last night ..so stupid of me That’s time and money I didn’t want to spend digging and fixing shit. Worst may ever

3 days in a row of snow. Definitely a record for my life time. Just amazing brutal stuff. I. Am. So. Tired. Of. Being. COLD!

Yeah, I don't like getting personal either. This forum has been an amazing place to discuss weather over the years and we all bring our own knowledge and flavor. It would definitely be a lot less fun and more lonely tracking storms without all of you.

I was definitely wrong about the cost. Still thought it was a little narcissistic to have his name on there. We paid for those checks, thats the taxpayers money.

Glad to see we agree on the tweets. He tweeted 125 times yesterday. Or once every 7 minutes for 16 hours straight.

Trump supporters seem to enjoy trolling the Left. They will defend him even when every bone in their body knows the thing he said was completely ****ed up or stupid. It's exhausting. Why can't they just say, "Boy that was stupid once in awhile". You can still like him, but the 100% all encompassing defense is phony and played out at this point.

I called you a good Shill. Thats just a factual statement. Not an insult.

I'm a fan of socialism. I think universal income is absolutely inevitable. Bailouts are fine are when the alternative is the economic collapse. I just find it amazing that Trump Supporters are notoriously anti socialism but certainly have their hands out there right now. Amazing how that works. Side Note - Obamas bailout is Bushs. We all know that. We all know the meltdown happened in Fall 08' and was built on the previous 10 years of bad banking.

To be honest, I rarely go there, but Trump supporters just enrage me more everyday. He's the worst human ever. Did you see how he treated that Asian reporter yesterday, its beyond insane at this point? Also, the irony here is AMAZING! Trump is the king of insults and name calling...and one of the dumbest, least factual, least scientific people in modern history. The cognitive dissonance with your post is off the charts

If these checks aren't socialism I don't know what is. You're ridiculous.

Such a loyal shill you are. lolz

You actually make a good point. The toner for millions of reprinted checks isnt zero.

I had read (possibly erroneously) that changing print templates was extremely costly at the time because they had to rework millions of checks that were already through the system. I'm guessing those checks don't roll off a Xerox printer using Word in some guys office. There are massive amounts of man hours and money put into every aspect of rolling out those checks, but way to oversimplify it though. The bottomline is that Trump wanted his name on the Check, so how is this solely a democratic issue in your eyes? Trump loves handing out socialist checks and doesnt even realize it.

Don't forget who spent millions of additional dollars to have his stupid name put on the stimulus checks!! Dumbass Donny. The Republicans own this mess and always will. (yes I know congress holds the purse strings)

The moral scruples on this decision are crazy. I go back and forth every day. Your scenario is the "kill the old people as fast as the hospitals can procees them" approach which may or may not be the right idea. It all depends on whether or not a treatment can be devised to significantly lower the death rate for the elderly. Some days i think unfortunately that might be the right choice. The next day I think about older friends and relatives and feel like a monster for thinking that way. It's just a whole lot of bad options.

I’m with you though, I think this is the latest accumulating snow I’ve seen in my lifetime. So definitely a significant event with a somewhat long return interval.

I agree its incredibly fascinating but certainly not anywhere near as historic as you implied. Just 30 years ago Rochester had 10 inches of snow on the ground on May 8th. 7 years ago the Adirondacks got 36 inches of snow on Memorial day weekend. May is a transition month, everything is on the table.

May can be a wild month for Upstate Ny. Look how warm it can be during a good year! In 2015, May had: Only 2 days with highs in the 50s 8 days with highs in the 60s 10 days with highs in the 70s 9 days with highs in the 80s 2 days with highs in the 90s

It's been snowing all day at Cornell but didnt appear to accumulate much. This is a great high def cam I've been watching over the winter. I'm a bit of a birder. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/cornell-lab-feederwatch/

There have been a number of studies on the ice boom. It seems the general consensus is that it has no noticeable impact it. I imagine a couple microclimate (a mile or so of shoreline) locations might have a colder week on the Niagara peninsula that are directly next to the boom, but on the large scale its just too small and insignificant to have a real effect. https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/1982/19820002.pdf https://weather.buffalostate.edu/sites/weather.buffalostate.edu/files/uploads/photos/PDF/iceboomposter.pdf

Light snow in Rochester, big fluffy flakes floating around. Not graupel, not a sloppy mix. Straight up snowflakes. Air aloft is mighty cold for 12 noon on May 8th.