Effective June 1, 2024, I will be the Secretary of the Oregon Chapter of the AMS.
Mark Nelsen has decided to step away from the executive committee, and I won the election between myself and Mike Krejci (runs weather-reporter.com and weathersigma.com (a new model site that is still being worked on) so check out his sites).
Back to civilization now after a successful 12 day climb of North America's tallest peak, Denali, home of some of the most extreme weather on the planet, with my 4 great friends Roger, Matt, Scott, and Aaron. For the first half of the climb we were very lucky with the weather and only needed 9 days to get enough good weather days to acclimatize and summit on the evening of the 20th. After we reached the summit we got about 20 minutes of clear sky -28 degree weather with light wind until a cloud
Here we go again!
Grindavik in Iceland still has more to share with the world.
With video
https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/iceland-volcano-erupts-grindavik-may-2024
I live in one of the most heavily vaxxed cities in Canada, and the only discernible health impact here is the abnormally low death rates from COVID (in what is Canada's densest city, with many people living in large apartment buildings with interior corridors, i.e. an environment where one would expect infection and death rates to be abnormally high).
Anyone who was claiming the vaccines would prevent all infections was lying. That was not the point, and the data always indicated that breakthrough infections were very much a thing. The point was that even breakthrough infections tended to be less serious, usually resolving themselves with home care, thus saving lives and taking burden off hospitals.
Yes, the J&J and AstraZenica (the latter of which was not even used in the USA) vaccines had more side effects, and were eventually withdrawn as such, but even in those the side effects were REALLY rare. I had the J&J vaccine and wasn’t even worried about the severe side effects, which were limited to women of childbearing age, a demographic of which I am not a member. And even for that demographic they were VERY rare. The incidence of severe side effects from COVID infection was far worse.
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