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Meteorologists: Cuomo’s weather claims are all wet
Associated Press ^ | Nov 29, 2014 11:39 AM EST | David Klepper

Posted on 11/29/2014 9:27:14 AM PST by Olog-hai

Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants New York to create the nation’s best weather monitoring system, one more robust than even the National Weather Service and more capable of predicting events like the snowstorm that buried parts of the Buffalo area under 7 feet of snow.

But although Cuomo’s $18.7 million initiative will help the state respond to events like floods or wildfires, it’s unlikely to live up to his grander expectations, meteorologists say.

To accurately predict lake-effect snowfall in western New York, the state would need weather satellites and a supercomputer to handle complicated weather modeling, plus monitoring stations in the Midwest and Canada, said Christopher Vaccaro of the National Weather Service. […]

Cuomo picked a fight with the weather service following the storm in Buffalo, saying the federal agency failed to predict its intensity and timing. His comments prompted meteorologists Al Roker and Jim Cantore to defend the accuracy and precision of the weather service’s forecasts. …

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TOPICS: Local News; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: alroker; andrewcuomo; billdeblasio; buffalo; chirlanemccray; jimcantore; lakeeffectsnow; meteorologists; newyork; princeandrew; princeandy
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1 posted on 11/29/2014 9:27:14 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
little andy HOMO, the thing that won't go away.
2 posted on 11/29/2014 9:31:51 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Chode

This is all about money. Weather’s got nothing to do with it.


3 posted on 11/29/2014 9:35:56 AM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.d)
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To: Olog-hai

Oh yes, another government run boondoggle jobs program funded by taxpayers.


4 posted on 11/29/2014 9:39:22 AM PST by headstamp 2
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To: Olog-hai
The then senator from Accuweather, er, Pennsylvania, once tried to get legislation passed that would all but eliminate the National Weather Service.

http://yttm.tv/v/21287 (Bruce Morton's 2005 report for CNN on Rick Santorum’s bill)

But yet, would Accuweather et all pay for the collection of the data?

Meanwhile, for Cuomo, may I suggestion that the state of NY contract with WeatherBELL?

5 posted on 11/29/2014 9:40:57 AM PST by garyb
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To: Olog-hai

What exactly is his beef? Buffalo was warned that a massive historic storm was on the way. It sounds like they got more snow than expected, but they still predicted a major weather event. What more does Cuomo expect in terms of predictions and emergency response and all that??? This storm was one for the record books. And he’s angry they didn’t predict the amount of snow which ended up on the ground???


6 posted on 11/29/2014 9:40:57 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: Chode

So experts agree that they can’t predict current weather but they also state that they can predict weather trends decades from now ala Global Warming?


7 posted on 11/29/2014 9:42:49 AM PST by Klaatu Barada Nikto (Liberty is not a Loophole)
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To: Klaatu Barada Nikto
So experts agree that they can’t predict current weather but they also state that they can predict weather trends decades from now ala Global Warming?

Yes.

8 posted on 11/29/2014 9:47:12 AM PST by Wingy
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To: Olog-hai
Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants New York to create the nation’s best weather monitoring system, one more robust than even the National Weather Service and more capable of predicting events like the snowstorm that buried parts of the Buffalo area under 7 feet of snow.

So where is he going to get his data? Planning on launching a fleet of weather satellites is he?

Truly one of the dumber things I've heard a politician say in a while.
9 posted on 11/29/2014 9:53:09 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: Olog-hai

Little men with lots of money think they can buy anything and that makes them a big man. Politicians love to buy everything, because the more money that flows through their hands, the more that ends up in their pockets.

Combine a politician with a little man and you reap poverty and opression.


10 posted on 11/29/2014 9:53:09 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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11 posted on 11/29/2014 9:57:44 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Lurker
merely another taxpayer funded giveaway project, simply follow the contracts
12 posted on 11/29/2014 10:05:50 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Klaatu Barada Nikto
100%
13 posted on 11/29/2014 10:07:07 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Olog-hai

Give Cuomo a popsicle where the sun don`t shine.


14 posted on 11/29/2014 10:24:47 AM PST by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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To: Olog-hai

The closer you are to the event the more accurate your prediction is. When you are real close, it’s not a prediction any more, but a description of what’s happening.

Weather forecasting is pretty good, but can’t give this wacko the certainty that he wants.


15 posted on 11/29/2014 10:31:50 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Olog-hai

Gosh, you mean like everything else this little dickweed says and does? I’m shocked!!


16 posted on 11/29/2014 11:48:48 AM PST by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: Lurker

With the alleged fall of communism (actually, they just swapped their uniforms for blue suits, tucked their pistols into their waistbands and changed their names — and darned if one didn’t move into the White House!), the Globull Elite needed a new BOOGEYMAN with which to frighten and control the dumb masses (say it fast for maximum effect)in order to herd the dumb masses into their utopian One World corral: THE ECOLOGY and MAN CAUSED GLOBULL WARMING GOT THE NOD!

Oh yeah, I forgot the cool part about picking the pockets of the wealthier nations to enrich some of these global elitists and their leading drum major, Algore, while bleeding the nasty old United States white. (PAGING ALGORE – PAGING ALGORE…log into your dozen bank accounts ASAP. They are WAAAYYYY over the FDIC insurance limit! Username reminder: FREAKING_PHONEY/Password reminder: Village_idiot)
The elitists’ ultimate goal in this man-caused GLOBULL WARMING HYSTERIA is to level the nasty old U.S. with the Turd World despotisms with which we are to be merged into their New World Odor (misspelling intentional) where TADA (trumpet fanfare here!), the GLOBULL ELITES will BE IN CHARGE.
And to reinforce the point, old Algore – ripping a page from the Joe Biden Foot in Mouth playbook or, in the alternative, displaying a level of brazenness reflective of the ignorance and apathy among the elitists’ soon to be serfs/slaves (that’d be the rest of us) — recently offered that Cap and Trade would be the final step in destroying any remaining American sovereignty and haul us once and for all into his longed for global governance.
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This one is about the 30,000 climate scientists who want to SUE GORE for FRAUD and runs about 5 minutes:
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THIS video is the blockbuster film “The Great Global Warming Swindle” and runs 1 hour, 45 minutes (get comfortable, grab a stiff libation and prepare to become progressively more angry. Suggest you remove all throwable items from the area.)
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Questions??


17 posted on 11/29/2014 11:52:51 AM PST by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: Olog-hai

Lake effect snow can somewhat be predicted, but where it goes depends on the strength and direction of the winds. Could be a conduit 10 miles wide and 100 miles long, or it could stay stationary over a city and keep dumping snow on it. Cumo would be better off buying giant wind machines facing the great white north.


18 posted on 11/29/2014 12:16:13 PM PST by Bruce Kurtz
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To: Olog-hai

Let’s lock them up like Nakoul Bassely Nakoula.


19 posted on 11/29/2014 1:47:16 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Olog-hai.


20 posted on 11/29/2014 3:20:03 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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