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What's up with all of these armchair meteorologists and disaster planners? Responsible governments have to err on the side of caution or you get disasters like Katrina. If you can't grasp that then you are a moron.
If there is no exact science to hurricane forecasting long term maybe they should forecast shorter term to assure the most accuracy. The scientific evidence that they had at the time was WRONG. All along they were forecasting with certainty. They made it sound as if Katrina were hitting the east coast. You can pretend you didn't hear it if you want I could care less.
Certainty? The forecast cone is know as the "cone of uncertainty" and 1/3 of the time a storm goes completely out of the cone. Once this storm cleared Puerto Rico the forecast track has been pretty good. Forecasting intensity is still poor.
I'm searching for a thread not related to hurricanes, and i came across the hurricane ike check in thread. It's a pretty funny read. Good times.
http://jalopnik.com/5835034/packing...nt-save-new-yorkers-cars-from-hurricane-irene lmao.... The East Coast is an embrassement.
It's amazing how every hurricanes' impact is equated with a hurricane that hit city that is in a fishbowl. Yes, the levees might break, except they don't have levees like NO.
What weather reports do you watch? Hurricane forecasters almost always preface any updates (well before a storm hits land) that the forecast is subject to change. They update their findings generally every 6 hours or so. There is plenty of stuff to blame on the government. Hurricane forecasts is not one of them.
People complaining about hurricane forecasting kill me. Meterologists are TONS better at doing it today than they were 10 years ago....but even still, it's not a perfect science. Meanwhile, they have to share the worst case scenarios that are plausible in the forecast in order to properly warn people of the potential....because if they don't and the crap goes down, lives can be lost.
Unfortunately, the cast of Jersey Shore did not float away. Snooki is alive and well. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/28/jersey-shore-cast-escapes-storm_n_939471.html
So it was a tropical storm by the time it got to NYC? Well, I'm sure it will be treated as the apocalypse anyway.
Hey-o! As expected, that was one p***y ass "hurricane." Here at 125th and Broadway, the rain has stopped. Right now I'm sure more than a few people are discovering that that tape is staying on the window forever.
Who was forecasting with certainty? Every report that I saw said pretty clearly that at four and five days out, models on average are off by 200-250 miles.
