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Well, you're partially right. I edited your post to remove some stuff. McConnell wanting liability protection has been widely reported. Hopefully something gets done soon.

The covid reinfections or Kate Middleton? Yes, it is interesting. Many of those few hundred cases probably are true reinfections but as mentioned, other explanations can't be ruled out.

Holy hell on the formatting. I fixed it the best I could.

Go ahead

The biggest calendar day snow in NYC in winter 2019-20 was... 2.1". A good place for big storms but it can't be counted on every winter. Probably not even in Boston.

Something I was thinking about... would there be a problem if somebody is unknowingly carrying covid while they get the vaccine? Like, would it improve, worsen, or have no effect on their course of covid? It's bound to happen at least on an isolated basis. How about somebody who gets the vaccine, then feels like crap and attributes it to the vaccine but it's really covid? That would really take some perfect timing though.

Vaccine has begun shipping to all 50 states. Not sure if they will be able to start giving shots tomorrow but I'd think by Tuesday.

Op GFS is looking a little funky around Christmas.

The rolling average right now is about 2400 deaths per day, and IHME projection had about 1900 deaths per day at this time. The IHME projected peak deaths per day is basically the same number we are getting now, and we know that's not going to happen with hospitalizations still gradually going up. Unfortunately their "mandates easing" projected deaths looks more realistic to where we are heading, or at least somewhere between that and their official projection. If that's the case, then we would be over 550k deaths by April 1.

Lake Tahoe and other areas say hi. If you're talking about frequency of big storms in very big cities, then I'd agree that you'd want to be in the northeast.

Pure winning

Yes, daily deaths will continue rising, because the bottom line is that we still have more cases and hospitalizations in the country right now compared to what we had on Thanksgiving.

Now 16 days after Thanksgiving, it's interesting to click around on various states and look at trends in cases. Some states rose after Thanksgiving (this may not definitively be because of Thanksgiving, as it's in line with trends starting before that) while others have remained relatively steady or even continued to fall.

Here are the lowest snow totals for Chicago through December 20. Currently at 0.7" and given how the upcoming week+ looks, there's a good chance 2020 will remain on this list. Can ignore 1996. Some missing data and I know that there happened to be accumulating snow during that time. So the real record for least snow through Dec 20 is 0.2"

If it's like the trends with our storms, it will trend down to like 8-14".

Sounds like marine influence.

Beavis, you are clearly in the minority here on how you judge winters. I don't agree with how you evaluate winters but that's ok. There's not a "right" or "wrong." The current pattern ain't a good one overall. It's just cold enough to give the threat of snow somewhere from time to time, but not your classic, deep winter pattern. Hopefully that changes. This is the time to take a break if you feel like you need one. Then you can rejoin us when times are better.

This may be their time until the southeast ridge comes calling later in Jan/Feb.

Fwiw, the winters after those Novembers were a mixed bag. Perhaps the best one of the bunch was 2009-10. 54.2" at ORD and good stretches of snowcover.

Good stuff

60" at ORD, so a pretty good gradient. A good snowfall winter to be sure, but with that total at ORD and thaws thrown in, it doesn't strike me as one that beavis would rank highly.

It was in the 60s in Chicago in early January. I don't think that was an acceptable winter for beavis.

I guess I use the forum differently. I'm mobile a large majority of the time and come in through the forum link to look at threads.

Every thread in this subforum except for this one is weather chatter. Seems like it shouldn't be difficult to avoid a thread clearly titled "coronavirus"

This particular thing has not really happened much though. Like, Florida tends to report numbers every day.