That’s a classic monster supercell developing in western Ok.

Last few frames of visible before sunset it the eastern eye wall exploding. I think we are in for a crazy night.

IR presentation is much better over the last hour or two.

7 minutes ago, Bostonseminole said:

pressure down to 997 on latest recon

 

Well that's significant...

IDA may not have taken off yet but all the ingredients are there once it develops a core. Very impressive outflow pattern already, bath water temps, and a deep moisture feed evident coming all the way from Central America. 

18z bombs into NOLA

Looks like a new round of hot towers going up both around the center and in her banding. Grace is looking primed at the moment.

This looks like its going to be another Gulf landfalling storm that is strengthening as it comes it. Looking considerably more impressive on IR this morning. 

Feels like spring in Oklahoma out today 

26 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

Signals for upcoming rounds seem to favor somewhere in central/southern LOT, so possible I could be well over 6" in the next day or two!

First time for everything!

-3.31

56 minutes ago, Stebo said:

Yeah we know you don't care, you have made that apparent from the get go, you can stop reminding us at every turn.

Man, you seem like a miserable human. I feel for you. 
 

To your point though, pandemics over so I’ll go ahead and leave y’all to talk about how scary the world is and how mean people are.

26 minutes ago, Stebo said:

Yep, entitlement is more important than health and safety.

Lol

16 minutes ago, TimB84 said:

Yeah, weren’t there a lot of people early on in the pandemic that had an issue with masks “because it would make it harder to identify criminals” (or at least framed it this way because their real reason for having an issue was even less logical)?

So you don't think your desire to continue to wear masks/continue some covid restrictions has anything to do with you have a preclusion to being anti social and the social side effects of the pandemic favor those preclusions? Its nothing more than masks prevents colds? 

13 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

I've found that there are times that I like hiding behind the mask.  People can't read your facial cues/expressions so well.  I'm probably a little weird.

Fair enough! Same reason a lot of people hate masks, reversed. 

8 hours ago, TimB84 said:

So colds and flu and other crap are just necessary facts of life and it isn’t nice to get them less often?

Lol yes germs are part of life. But, I haven’t had a cold in over ten years with no masks. 
 

And I’m specifically asking about people “not wanting to see his face”. 

23 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

Getting close to having max vax protection.  My intent had been to wear a mask indoors until fully vaxxed (as per CDC guidance) and then stop, but my thinking on this is evolving.  I may still wear one indoors where there are a lot of people and at other times if I just want to hide my face.  No, I'm not planning to rob a bank lol  

Let's face it, people are kinda gross (except, of course, my fine friends here at American Weather) so if a mask helps cut down on the potential of picking up non-covid illnesses, that's great.  Although the amount of mask wearing is dropping, there are still more than enough people wearing them around here that you don't look like a weirdo for wearing one.  

I am young, not immunosuppressed and had systemic side effects from the vaccine, so there is every reason to feel confident that I am mounting a very robust immune response from it.  For me, wearing a mask at times is not going to be about covid.  Anybody else feel like this?

So wearing a mask has become your social security blanket?

Mid 70’s with June sun angle and low humidity is pretty glorious.

Watching a pretty good lightning show from the north side of Indy. Looking forward to peer humidity over the next week. 

43 minutes ago, mattb65 said:

Vaccine mandates are coming.  I'm curious how this will resolve itself especially with the Texas governor putting in place policies that effectively enable anti-vax individuals.

178 health care workers suspended from Houston Methodist hospital system for refusing COVID-19 vaccination

https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/7616446002

Important to note that this is 178 out of 25,000 employees. 

Have a feeling it wont end well for the hospital, considering location.

4 hours ago, TimB84 said:

 

Should we rethink that with this Delta variant? Is this going to screw us over from traveling internationally, say, by early 2022 at the latest? Should we be worried about another surge of covid in the US (both in terms of new restrictions and in terms of the human cost of a surge in covid)? Is this just fear mongering? Inquiring minds want to know.

Nah

1 hour ago, mattb65 said:

Did you know that covid infection has been associated with an increased risk of erectile dysfunction? 

Still rather test your luck by not getting the vaccine?

"Just a few days of sniffles"... and a floppy 

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/yes-covid-19-can-cause-erectile-dysfunction/

Nobody here is getting any enough to worry about that

1 minute ago, TimB84 said:

So in other words, it may not be a decision made based on conspiracy stuff people read on Facebook, but it’s absolutely an uninformed decision by people who haven’t taken the relatively small amount of time it takes to research what an EUA means.

Who cares man, if you have the vaccine somebody else's ignorance literally does not matter whatsoever at this point. I don't know about you but my life is basically back to normal at this point.

The percentage of us who actually care to research information is so small on either side of the political spectrum its embarrassing. Just like the numbers from a month or so ago that showed the perceived fatality rates of covid by people on the left. 

3 hours ago, TimB84 said:

But do most people in this category know what full FDA approval entails and what the differences are between emergency use authorization and full FDA approval? I would guess not.

Probably not, but it does mean something or there wouldn't be a separate category for emergency approval vs full approval.  

5 hours ago, RobertSul said:

We’ve all seen the crazy-ass Facebook posts from people we know personally. There is no overgeneralizing here.

I haven’t been on Facebook in a couple years, life’s a lot better that way. To your point though, I do personally know people on vaccine crazy train-some close family members included. Just to reemphasize- I do not agree with them and think the vaccines are great and are the reason the pandemic is ending. To my point though,  most of the people I know who haven’t gotten it just don’t think they need it and would rather wait until full FDA approval.