Eskimo Joe

Gov. Hogan just announced on a livestream with Washington Post that MD National guard has moved the cache of S. Korean test kits to an undisclosed source and is providing 24/7 protection of the kits to prevent any chance of the Feds from "acquiring" the materials.

I know I'm arguing semantics, but it's a weather board so bear with me. To me, soaking rain is a farmer's rain that causes within banks rises on water bodies but not flooding.

I find we boom on rainfall if we start with the warm front overhead. Right now it's up in PA so we're at the mercy of katafront precip with the cold front. It's not the greatest recipe for a soaking rainfall and I'm really hoping for it to soften the soil up for my lawn work this weekend.

Unless I'm missing something, it looks like this system is really not that moisture laden. A lot of the guidance now seems struggle to get anyone over an inch of rain and it's out of here pretty quick.

I have a friend who works in a nursing home in Lancaster County and another who is an outpatient nurse at a hospital in Allentown. They both said it's burning through the older population in the state.

Where are you all getting the national mortality numbers from?

@FXW176 your tomatoes are suffering from excess rain and cold ground. Bring the plants inside at night to maintain soil temps of at least 60 degrees and they'll start popping.

Going to dethatch, aerate, and overseed the lawn on Saturday. We're starting to turn the corner with a manageable lawn and it's really making things look nicer. I don't want a golf course, just something that isn't dead weeds and bare patches.

All, this link will take you to the current 1hr, 3hr, and 6hr flash flood guidance from the Mid Atlantic River Forecast Center (MARFC). Worth bookmarking: https://www.weather.gov/marfc/Flash_Flood_Headwater_Guidance

While it's a potentially good sign, folks really need to understand some key points: 1.) This is likely not going to be a vaccine. In the history of Coronavirus vaccine research, there is no working vaccine for any derivative of Coronavirus. 2.) This is likely going to be a step forward in the treatment protocol but won't be commercially available for at least 6 months, even with all the red tape cut. The physical act of production takes a long time. 3.) Whatever happens with an eventual treatment first, it will initially go to hospitals for treating the most dire cases.

All disasters do this, people choose to ignore them. It's a persistent issue in the emergency management field. This particular event is really pulling the curtains back. The challenge to reduce or eliminate the economic and societal inequalities starts in neighborhoods with people deciding to care about their fellow residents. Until that happens, nothing will change.

IMO, it seems that Maryland and DC are are the peak and Phase 1 re-opening between May 10th - 18th appear reasonable.

Oooo, what nursery?

The lawn mowers will be going full force this weekend.

I don't think people understand how nefarious this virus is. As things open back up, people need to keep their guard up and continue extra measures for disinfectant and sanitizing surfaces. Because if this gets in your office/facility/whatever, it runs through fast.

Looks like WPC bumped up the DY 1-3 QPF to 2"+ from US15 east.

IMO, antibody testing is not a cure all and shoudn't be touted as a reliable indicator of any partial or full immunity until more reliable studies on it come out.

Big Ooof

eh?

NWS Charleston, WV just issued a flood watch for their eastern zones so I wonder if/when CTP and LWX will be hoisting a watch.

More likely we get flooding. If you read the morning AFD from LWX it sounds like we're getting a flood watch later today.

Ask me Wednesday.

7 calendar days of this and ICU decrease. There was +202 in hospitalizations reported today.

Yes.

This is just a casual observation, absolutely not scientific in any way, but it seems like we go from overcast and 47 degrees to full summer a lot quicker since the early 2000s.