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interested way to think about people having medical issues after vaccines. With half of the adult population in the US having at least one vaccine so far, it makes it absurdly easy to draw the connection between a vaccine and some kind of ailment since logically tons of people out of that 50% vaccinated are going to have some kind of medical issue during the past 4 months. It would be like saying people are getting sick/dying/etc. after going to Thanksgiving Dinner with family. Just by the sheer number of people doing it of course there will be people with health issues afterwards, even when it's not connected

The MJO is moving into phases 8-1-2 which is an active weather look for the central US in the spring

We're actually significantly worse than 2012. At least for areas W of the Mississippi.

Getting close to our last freeze here. Tonight is a slam dunk and Saturday night has the potential but then a warm stretch is upcoming and climo starts working against us

Visibility below a half mile in this squall. these things mean business. Accumulating on the grass/part of the sidewalk

already getting some convective snow showers this morning. Very ominous look in the NW sky

Latest measurable snowfall on record for Paducah Kentucky

Yeah I had a bad take. I’m willing to admit that

thats fair. Wasn't really thinking about south of I80

Texas has been a very middle of the road state in terms of Covid deaths per capita. Not as good as Florida(!) or California but not nearly as bad as Alabama and Mississippi.

people act like it doesn't snow in April, even though it snows in April every year

we average 2.6" of snow in April. It's abnormal if we don't get any snow this month. Only 8 out of the past 30 years haven't had measurable snow in April and all of those years had a trace.

The Euro and GFS have both trended shorter with the cool blast starting next week. Looks like M-Th should be below normal and then warmer air floods the region.

yes

good to see winterwx21 posted about being in really good shape. It had been awhile and I was worried something had changed on that front.

For people keeping track of the model scores at home, the GFS was able to sniff out the Typhoon in the Pacific far before the Euro did. Continues the trend of better performance with TCs as noted last year.

Interestingly it’s because of 6 cases of blood clots out of 7 million doses so far. All adult age groups have a higher chance of dying from covid than getting a blood clot from that vaccine

Yeah they used to take temperature measurements 3 times per day. Definitely missed a good number of highs and lows.

Recurving typhoons don't always mean a trough in the east. That's a preferred outcome but there are other factors in play as well

the middle of the month is not looking as cool as it once did, temps look to be only average or slightly below. The mean trough position looks to set up further west

90.5% of people 65+ in dane county have gotten at least one dose. Pretty amazing numbers ETA: 81.2% of the same age group in Dane County has completed their vaccine series

@hlcater just beat me to the punch. Did anyone know anything about this before the report this morning?

Nice line of thunderstorms popping up over Dane County and expanding westward. Looking like I’ll get hit by it

I'm now fully vaccinated and I believe it's the right thing to do. These vaccinations are very successful, do not provide serious side effects(for example I had a worse reaction to the flu vaccine in 2019 than I had to my second dose of the covid vaccine), and they bring us to a place where we don't need distancing and masks. If anyone is having doubts or concerns about the vaccine please feel free to reach out to me, I can help answer some of the concerns or doubts you have and hopefully show you that it is the right thing to do. I don't believe vaccines should be mandatory, I believe a vaccination campaign is much more effective if people arrive at the decision on their own. I do believe that a country may require a vaccine for international travelers, like countries currently do with yellow fever etc. I'm looking forward to spending time with friends and with my father who is immunocompromised without the anxiety of spreading this to him. Life will get back to normal and it will be sooner rather than later. We can overcome this and the world will be a better place because of it.

I'm up in Waunakee now and we've only gotten sprinkles so far