Meteorologists: Cuomo’s weather claims are all wet

Associated Press ^ | Nov 29, 2014 11:39 AM EST | David Klepper

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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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cuomo is a typical LIB/DIM idiot. When something happens create a boondoggle “program” to “take care” of it...even if that is based on nothing logical. Typical criminal LIB. Steal taxpayer money to fund his idiocy.

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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 snowa...and yet he undoubtedly believes in all the fashionable latest gibberish on climate change, which holds that scientists can predict to the nearest tenth of a degree the temperature and quarter of an inch the rise in sea level to occur fifty years from now......