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psuhoffman

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  1. @DTWXRISK true and the weakening Nina definitely could have a significant impact by March!
  2. Do you understand this is a discussion board. It’s not a bulletin board. People are free to respond to other posts. I wasn’t being hostile to you in that post. I was simply explaining that surface pressure wasn’t really the problem here imo. You can refute that if you want. I won’t take offense. That’s how a discussion works. But you seem to be upset whenever someone disagrees with you and resent that they posted a response unless it was to agree. I admit I was hostile towards you wrt your NWP comments. That’s because I feel your accusations are unwarranted and insulting to the people here who work in NWP. But that dispute doesn’t have to spill over into every other interaction we have on this board. I was simply adding my interpretation to this setup to your comment. It wasn’t meant to start a fight.
  3. Ugly. January I could envision some brief periods of opportunity within that mean...but not many any Feb looks like last winters pattern.
  4. It’s good news...but it doesn’t get back to weak Nina status until around Feb and there is typically a lag in atmospheric response so I’m not totally sure it will save us from a generally hostile pacific pattern during the “meat” of winter. I am optimistic at signs (including the SSW) that we might get more help up top and on the Atlantic side that could offset a less ideal pac pattern at times. Last year EVERYTHING was wrong. And not saying the weakening Nina isn’t a good though. Every bit helps.
  5. That’s in the general window we have before the AK vortex invades pac puke across. It’s not a great pattern but it’s in that zone where I wouldn’t be shocked if absolutely nothing comes of it or if we luck into something between the 12-18th. longer range the GEFS improved slightly. Retrograde the ridge on the Atlantic side some and that AK trough could get forced out. Either drop in under or retrograde west. Either works. It’s an ugly look for Xmas but could lead somewhere better after that. Last year we were facing an evolution where the only light at the end I saw was an oncoming train.
  6. It’s not a matter of a storm being suppressed. The issue is a flat flow behind the departing system and the mid level feature that creates the lift tracks south of us. That could change but there is no high involved in the equation.
  7. Uh oh it’s so bad he broke character. 2020 has broken the reaper!!!
  8. The EPS still shows a brief window around Dec 16-18 before the pac puke arrives if something can amplify before the cutter vacates the 50/50 region. After that looks ugly. Silver lining is the Atlantic side stays ok. Unlike last year there are hints, including signs of a SSW, that the NAM might not be a complete lost cause this year. The pac looks a mess. I kind of assumed that was coming. But last year the Atlantic side was hostile too. That’s a no hope situation. If we get some Atlantic side help this year we should get some opportunities. It will still be a struggle and a fight. Nothing will come easy. But it’s not hopeless like last year.
  9. I’m not touching policy. I don’t want to start a political fight! I was simply fact checking some statistical claims he made. I wasn’t advocating for or against anything you just said. Just didn’t want some false information floating around. People are free to draw whatever conclusions they want from the statistics...but the stats should be accurate at least.
  10. @40westwx couple clarifications. 1. The US population increased by about 957,000 in 2019 not 6 million. Maybe you saw 6% which is the avg rate increase over the last 20 years and misinterpreted that. But the rate has been dropping steadily in recent years. 2. a relatively small change in the mortality % is really significant when applied to 329 million people! Your talking about hundreds of thousands of people with just a fraction of a % change. 3. deaths from heart disease are up not down. https://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-the-heart-attack-death-rate-has-doubled-during-covid-19 https://www.heart.org/en/news/2020/07/10/more-people-are-dying-during-the-pandemic-and-not-just-from-covid-19 4. One number in isolation doesn’t give a clear picture when dealing with an issue that has multiple variables. You need to control for all the variables. This could work either way. Deaths from things like heart disease have gone up due to people in some cases being reluctant to get treatment. But there is evidence some other death rates have gone down. Even though the % of accidents that are fatal has gone up die to wreck less driving on less crowded roads because the sheer volume of accidents is so down the overall mortality decreases. There are various other factors needed to be calculated. That could end up pushing the conclusion you infer in either direction but it can’t be known until it is done. I’ll let the expert statisticians who are paid to do that...do it before I draw conclusions.
  11. Cool, my misunderstanding. Just want to make sure I know “the rules”. OSfan was being a bleep though.
  12. Told ya the dry slot wouldn’t make it to you. That band will start to dissipate over the next couple hours but upslope flow could keep you going for a while.
  13. We can get intense CCB banding down in MD too but it’s less frequent getting a storm to amplify enough that far south. Plus we can get some pretty good WAA front end thumps too if there is a deep cold layer dammed in. Obviously it happens way more frequently in New England.
  14. So you’re saying there are very fine people on both sides?
  15. But if there is a storm thread do they still post in there or the storm thread? Maybe it was that way and I never noticed before. We’ve had forum dividing events though and melt downs by weenies whose feeling are hurt it’s not gonna snow on their house but I don’t remember (besides jokes) suggesting the part of the region getting snow needs to sequester themselves away so as not to hurt the feelings of those not getting snow.
  16. @mdhokie this is the mortality chart for 2020 from the October CDC update with covid broken down by age. You can see mortality has been running way above normal. The drop near the end is due to a lag in reporting. The second chart lumps all flu/pneumonia/covid deaths together which debunks the claim that flu or pneumonia deaths were being mis attributed. If so it’s funny how we suddenly had a pneumonia epidemic.
  17. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/death-rate The site clearly specifies that 2020 does not include covid impacts. In searching for this source I also found references to the CDC releasing non covid mortality estimates. So putting 2+2 that chart is our 2020 projected mortality absent effects of covid. Which makes sense. But the way it was presented was misleading.
  18. Very important to mention the data you cited does not include any covid data. That is our mortality rate excluding covid deaths.
  19. That house needed more moderation
  20. Oh definitely...but with a more typical temperature profile across eastern North America I also doubt you see that result either. Either way it was anomalous not something that should happen frequently, especially not deeper into winter.
  21. Don’t be a jerk. Yea this sub is dominated by the DC Balt corridor but that doesn’t mean the people in our region outside that zone can’t discuss their weather.
  22. We’ve been in about as bad a pattern as possible all November and so the North American temp profile was torched. That’s not something that will happen often where you are, and especially not mid winter.
  23. Deer jumped out right in front of me on that road last trip up to Sugarloaf.
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