also vaccines are very very good at preventing severe illness so at that point any vaccinated person should have no fear at getting anything more than a mild illness even if they do get infected
We've had the 6th coldest first 15 days of February here with an average temp of 3.7 degrees. The only comparable stretch in recent history is 2007 which had an average of 4.4 degrees but ended the month at 14.4.
Kuchera is actually really simplistic. You just take the max column temp below 500 mb, subtract it from -2 celsius and add it to 12.
So for example if the max column temp was -12 celsius, you would do 10+12 so 22:1 ratios.
waiting for the official number but looks like we got down to -12 or -13 this morning. Just short of the record again. We just had the 7th coldest first half of February for MSN. Looking forward to the slow climb out of this now. The cold has overstayed its welcome.
One positive around here is that the consistent snow cover has lead to a fairly shallow frost depth. So when we do warm up the ground won’t stay frozen for long and will be able to soak up water
Looks like we’ll end up right on the edge of the snow and get a dusting. Congrats to all to the SE who will get a great system. Can’t wait to watch all this snow melt after this