I know that covid-19 has been on the news 24/7 but like 9/11 and other national emergencies it is sometimes best to set back and forget about the issues. I do not mean ignore the issue just not think about it all the time. I know most of us on here have weather and weather related interest that can take your mind off the issue. But unlike some past national emergencies this one has taken a little different route and has taken our love of sports away for the time being. And with social distancing one has to make sure it doesn’t become social isolation. Will enough on that and now for this weeks post.
Last week it was mentioned to go on one time and stay there. I mentioned that staying on the so called Daylight Time was my choice and it looks like that is one that several states are thinking about as well. This is from a report from ABC news.
Americans will advance their clocks on Sunday to daylight savings time, but several states are looking to end the tradition of re-setting the time twice a year altogether. Oregon and Washington state have both passed legislation to maintain daylight saving time year-round, but the Oregon legislation states that California also must do so before the law can go into effect, The Oregonian reported. A bill has been introduced, but California has not yet passed a similar law.
A bill to allow the Sunshine State to remain on daylight saving time year-round was signed into law in 2018 but cannot be enacted without congressional approval, according to ABC Tampa affiliate WFTS. If the Sunshine Protection Act is passed, Florida residents would be able to enjoy more evening sunshine in the winter by forgoing setting the clocks back in the fall. It would also shift resident in the state’s panhandle, who are currently in the Central time zone, to Eastern time.
The state of Massachusetts is considering ditching daylight saving time altogether for the Atlantic Standard Time, joining places like Nova Scotia and Puerto Rico, according to Boston.com. Since New England is hundreds of miles farther east than other areas in Eastern Standard Time, it gets darker much earlier. Note if Michigan was to go to Central time it would get dark here at 4 pm in the winter time.
Other states in the Northeast are considering the move as well. In 2018, the Maine House and Senate passed separate bills in support of ditching daylight saving time, but only if Massachusetts and New Hampshire do too, Boston.com reported. A bill to move to Atlantic Standard Time has also been introduced in Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.
Legislation to make daylight savings time permanent have also been introduced in Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Vermont. Similar legislation has been struck down in Idaho, Mississippi, New Mexico, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming.
So as you can see the trend is for more evening daylight and not so much in the morning. I for one can agree with that.
Slim
Here is something to toss around in your head. This is from the WOOD TV8 web site. “The Greenville Daily News reports the Montcalm County patient, a woman in her 60s, had traveled to southern Italy with her husband and believes she was exposed on her flight. Both she and her husband were tested at a local hospital and while she tested positive for coronavirus, her husband, although he had symptoms, did not. She is under quarantine for two weeks.” Ok why did the woman test positive and the man did not??? I would think I would do a retest… Read more »
Note I will post this again tomorrow as it is past the prime time for our posters
Slim
He needs a retest so does she. I hope these tests are accurate.
34* degrees out at thee YARDOFBRICKS NE of GR …. Heading to club great day to belliee up to bar and tell jokes no sports weather is cold why not drink the afternoon away INSIDE
….INDY
The Coronavirus is basically affecting my life daily, such as online classes, and even though it is very serious, I am going to *stop thinking about it* and just follow the required precautions. It would obviously be wrong to ignore it entirely of course, but there is no need to think about it all the time. I just felt I had to mention this because it is hard to ignore making a position on the coronavirus. (Also, things could still be much worse. WW1 and WW2 were worse… Vietnam was worse… the Spanish flu was worse… Things will return to… Read more »
You know that while WW1 and WW2 were very bad and it did have a impact on daily life one would be surprise how little impact the wars had on day to day live here in the US. As for things returning to “normal” that is yet to be determined. It may be longer then we will like it to be. And that said things will not be the same for a long time.
Slim
Yes that is true, this is definitely different than past situations. I don’t think we have ever had nearly every school and business close, even for the Spanish Flu? The USA hid information on the Spanish flu due to it influencing the world war so I believe it took a while for communities to react.
But nevertheless, I still hope the worst will be over within 6-8 weeks as summer approaches.
Rock on Nathan and I agree 100%
Did you end up going home? Many students did. All I know is that the EL bars are packed – according to my sister (she works for the City of East Lansing). The afternoon that they announced no more in-person classes, you would have thought it was finals week. Everyone was outside, partying on the porches/lawns.
Heading out to golf 9!! Not bad at all our today! I love long springs!
Are you nuts!? Wait a minute , you are crazy!
I thought you were up north skiing, Rocky? Oh wait, you were caught lying!
It’s not bad at all outside. Better than fake news skiing!
The daylight savings time change really doesn’t affect me. However, I wish they would just stick with one time year round. Spent all morning cleaning out the landscaping/flower beds. I was pleasantly surprised at how much green is popping up already. Going to change the oil on the lawn tractor and clean the spark plug. Frankly, I have no interest in leaving the house unless necessary. Plenty of things to do around the house to keep us busy. I am disappointed of all the sports cancellations, but I agree with the plan of action. The B1G tourney and a March… Read more »
The number of infected Americans is doubling every 60 hours or so. The rate in Michigan is even worse than that. That concerns me.
World numbers are quite scary – Worst Case Scenario by CDC (if no actions taken) Between 160 million and 214 million people in the U.S. could be infected (Worst case scenario). Dr. Lawler, an infectious diseases specialist, provided a “best guess” projections of 96 million people Could last months or even over a year As many as 200,000 to 1.7 million people could die. Dr. Lawler’s calculations: 480,000 deaths, which he said was conservative By contrast, 20,000 to 50,000 people have died from flu-related illnesses this season according to CDC. 2.4 million to 21 million people in the U.S. could… Read more »
Keep in mind this is a WORSE CASE SENERIO IF NO ACTION IS TAKEN. Iran and North Korea are probably going downhill fast…
Yes, the numbers are scary and there is no way around it. It looks to me that one of the reason for the actions that have been taken is not to make less people end up with getting the virus but instead slow down the rate so that less people get it all at once. With the hope that more research can be done and maybe find or create a vaccine for later this year or next year. So bottom line is that this could last a lot longer then then we would want it to. As stated in MV’s… Read more »
Those are surreal (potential) numbers.
Cloudy and 32 here at my house.
Slim
We are +6.5 degrees above average for March so far. Probably among the warmest starts to the month ever!
Hey mookie, did you happen to see the last few posts from yesterday?
That Nub’s Nob closed? Poor Rocky. At least the ski resort has some common sense with this coronavirus- unlike Rocky! It was also funny you caught him in a lie. I bet he’s not up north skiing like he always says he is. What a joke!
Exactly!!
At this time the mean for March 2020 at Grand Rapids is 38.8° and if this mean holds it would make this March the 18th warmest March at GRR. And of the top 18 warmest 6 of them have happened in the last 20 years.
Slim
You can’t compare a monthly mean to a mean for the first 13 days. Especially when the average temp gets warmer throughout the month.
Compare the mean for the first 13 days against the mean of other first 13 days.
I did not word that right. I was trying to point out that at this time GRR mean is already the 18 warmest March of record. Thus if this was the end of the month Grand Rapids would have had it 18th warmest March of record.
Slim
27* degrees this morning out at thee YARDofBRICKS NE of GR cold enough to snow still waiting on this blow torch of wamth from last month that was supposedly coming in March repeats of knowledge I guess lol ….. Reality looks like another day stuck in the 30’s with the furnace still running have a good Saturday …INDY..
Ohhh by the way we are getting there ..INDY
I am thinking it could be put on a national referendum instead of letting individual congresses bicker over it. Our time zones were set by the railroads in 1883 for consistency while traveling. In 1884, delegates from more than two dozen nations met at the International Meridian Conference, held in Washington, D.C., where they chose the line of longitude running through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, as the official prime meridian, or zero point of longitude. (Traveling east from the prime meridian, you gain an hour with each time zone; journeying west, time moves backward by an hour with… Read more »