According to Al Gore Junior, they do VERY strange things, just look at his doctored photo.
Posted on 10/07/2016 1:49:03 AM PDT by bryan999
As Hurricane Matthew charges into Florida with winds up to 140 mph, approximately 1.5 million people are preparing to clear out of the storm’s path. By Thursday evening, the National Weather Service was imploring residents to head to safety. “Now is the time to urgently hide from the wind. Failure to adequately shelter may result in serious injury, loss of life or immense human suffering,” the agency said on its website. On Thursday, President Obama declared a State of Emergency in Florida.
And then there was Matt Drudge, who was instead declaring a state of conspiracy. The founder of the Drudge Report spent his evening blasting out tweets that the storm’s forecast was grossly overblown. He even went so far as to accuse the government of exaggerating Hurricane Matthew’s intensity just to make a point about the dangers of climate change. Not kidding.
What. The. Bleep. Hugh Cobb, Chief of the Tropical Analysis and Forecast Branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, told Popular Science that he was aware of Drudge’s comments and that while he would not comment directly on them, he reacted with a groan. Cobb emphasized that all of NOAA’s data is collected straight from the storm using reconnaissance aircraft. Aircraft have no political agenda.
Lead Forecaster Martin Nelson, also of the Tropical Analysis and Forecast Branch, hammered home the same point saying “We go with our data. That’s the end of it,” adding “We use the science that we have and that’s what we do.”
Cobb reiterated that this is “an extremely dangerous storm” that must be taken very seriously. Which is to say, get your weather information from weather agencies--not an Internet trash heap with an agenda.
(Excerpt) Read more at popsci.com ...
So I guess we should just take their word for it, case closed?
Data coming out of those various weather stations are telling a different story.
Drudge isn't slinking away from his tweets. They're still up and causing a major liberal mass ridicule. But I see no signs of him backing off from this...
Yeah, I really don't like the libs ragging on my man Drudge. Not putting me in a good mood this morning. Drudge is a patriot and IMO an American hero.
The eyewall may hit Cape Canaveral and then we can see what this storm is made of, So far we have just hurricane force gusts over land, no hurricane force sustained winds AFAIK. But without the eyewall on land hitting a weather station we can’t get a good measurement. The rest of the inland areas especially south of Melbourne have basically nothing.
I was watching some live tv coverage for a while just now and the reporters kept hyping the hell out of this storm, but so far the impact in Florida seems pretty minimal. It may be passing just far enough (50 miles) offshore that the highest winds are staying out at sea. All the actual wind reports I could see on the Florida coast were more in the range of 30-60 mph. I’m sure there are stronger gusts, but Florida may escape the more severe impacts.
The reporters live for this stuff. The SJW AGW morons are just pushing snake oil. For weathermen these storms are Woodstock. I can tell you personally three days of sitting in the house listening to 75 mph winds is not fun even if a week of no power is the only inconvenience. I would pray to be spared three days of 75 mph winds with an hour or two of 100+. I really would.
Drudge was right. The hurricane was being hyped bigtime all night long. I watched TV coverage of the storm on multiple channels as I was up all evening. They kept saying 130 MPH winds when the highest was in the 90s. It was all very anticlimactic. The spin was in.
hey Hilda
Why don’t you give the money you stole from the Haitians back so they can recover from this storm.
Delaying your climate change attack ad till after
this storm passes is not going to help you. Shame on you, you crusty old dried up dyke.
I’m thinking Drudge is gonna get the last laugh.
Another article that is pissing me off this morning, and I haven’t even had my coffee:
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/6/13192060/hurricane-matthew-drudge-tweet
That Ezra Klein jackass is floating the above article on Disgracebook, which is causing all of his dumb lib followers to go into extreme ridicule mode.
A couple decades of Coastal VA have given us a little experience. The worst of these storms is from about 1 O’clock to 3. It is like a right cross. So far the worst has stayed out to sea, it appears. But that right cross is out there. If that storm jogs left all of a sudden it is going to land a devastating punch somewhere.
We had a storm come at us about 15 years ago. I mean it was making a beeline to us. The thing turned 180 on a dime about 50 miles out. They do very strange things.
Their use of street lingo in the article doesn’t serve them well in terms of credibility.
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So if I turn off my air conditioning and walk 30 miles to work the storm will disappear then?
Popular Science told us for YEARS that we’d have flying cars. How’d that go?
According to Al Gore Junior, they do VERY strange things, just look at his doctored photo.
Tha’s wut all the popular kids be doin’, man.
The title of the article is BS.
“DON’T TAKE WEATHER ADVICE FROM MATT DRUDGE”
Matt Drudge never gave weather advice. He simply presented links to idiots who do.
Matt Drudge has always had a good nose for news. And from the beginning presented things that the MSM refused.
That is why so many people look at his site. That is it.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
One of Drudge’s obsessions since he founded the Drudge Report is weather news and updates, especially Hurricanes...
If he is making observations on a storm and any hyperbole about its severity then I would be inclined to believe him...
“We go with our data.”
Drudge is going with wind speed measurements. What do you believe, your anemometer, or your lying eyes?
NOAA if they aren’t the liars they are should be curious at the mismatch between what they say the wind speeds will be, and what they actually are.
Storm 25 miles off Canaveral, onshore winds under 40 mph, main storm winds at center 120 mph.
The last good editor there was Hugh Luckett.
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