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Would be nice to see some 100+ temps in these heatwaves, but instead it's cooler with sky high dews. I definitely think that increased precip and this frankencorn that is pretty resistant to all but the worst droughts explains the increasing difficulty in reaching 100.

Fwiw, when I looked earlier, the low level flow seemed like it would be strong enough to hold back a lake breeze for Alek's area, at least on Sat/Sun.

So what it is is that they gave a second dose to 10 people. I saw it quickly yesterday and mixed it up.

Is that the one that was tested on like 10 people?

Masks are now required in my county where distancing can't be maintained. This won't be a change for me but I routinely see at least 10-20% of people not wearing masks when I go into stores/businesses.

Fyi, going to be tightening things up a bit in here. Overtly political posts/bashing will most likely be removed. Would prefer to not even see the president and other politicians mentioned. The post about the president wearing a mask will be left up (at least for now) because of the significance/symbolism.

Hell froze over.

That person makes good points, though I think there is a little hyperbole at times. For one, the IFR is most likely under 1%. But even if it is 0.3%, that would be 1 million dead Americans if everybody caught the virus. Secondly, it is hard to know at this point whether some of the damage to the body is permanent. The idea that it could be permanent though should be enough for everyone to respect this and take it seriously.

Temps aloft would support some pretty warm highs. The GFS looks fairly convectivey during the period, but upon closer inspection, it appears it is more of a diurnal thing that the model is suggesting. There is obviously a difference between pop up type diurnal storms and large convective complexes which overturn the airmass in a large area. So my thought is that this round of heat will likely have hotter temps farther north than the last round.

It may work if we can definitively know that people cannot be reinfected, the quarantined people never set foot outside of their houses and never come in contact with a non quarantined individual. Other than that...

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 1210 PM CDT SUN JUL 19 2020 ..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON... ..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.... ..REMARKS.. 1200 PM TSTM WND GST 4 SW BAILEYS CORNER 41.03N 87.05W 07/19/2020 M86 MPH JASPER IN TRAINED SPOTTER

Anyway, this thread is getting too political. Get back on track.

Of course this pandemic would've been a lot to dump on any president, let alone somebody who never held any office. Whether or not someone wants to use that as an excuse is up to them. Presidents usually get tested at some point in their presidency. We went through a lot of this same stuff in the 1918 pandemic. Masks, closures, etc. And guess what? Things eventually became normal again. You didn't have to wear a mask in public for the rest of your life. I'm not sure if there was such vociferous resistance back then. I know we didn't have twitter and the like, lol.

Has sounded like bombs going off at times.

Just because something is left up doesn't mean I'm a personal fan of it. I'd prefer every post to stick to what the virus is doing and not the other issues surrounding it, but it's sort of inevitable for it to drift. This thread has generally not gotten as heated or gone as far off the rails as some of the other covid threads, and hopefully that continues.

Heat index is still 97 at ORD.

If you look at the daily case trends in Arizona, there are signs they are beginning to stabilize if not starting to trend downward. But they had such a spike that there will be dozens dying there each day (some days over 100) for quite a while yet.

LOT evening update sounded fairly uncertain about convective evolution.

Well, we popped a Wheeling. Dew of 80 there. I'll be here all night with the lame jokes, folks.

Maybe somebody at least in the outer metro can crack 80 on the dew in the next hour or two.

Clouds definitely putting a bit of a dent in the temps today. Some thinning/breaks evident in visible satellite moving into northern IL so we'll see if there can be a little mid-late afternoon bump.

Here's what it has at 10z Sun. No complex anywhere near southern WI, northern IL, southern Lake Michigan, etc. Seems unlikely given other models (and the Euro which has had storms moving into the aforementioned area for days now)

Between the 3 km NAM and recent HRRR, something is going to be massively off later on. 3 km NAM does fit the expected scenario better.

As long as D0 exists in this world, there shall be a thread.

About 850 new cases in IN, which is the 2nd highest daily number since testing began. Positive test percentage is higher than ideal but not crazy high.