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Having lived my entire life on the Gulf Coast it is painfully obvious by now that NO ONE takes these ersatz 'forecasters' seriously. They WANT people perpetually afraid of every gust of wind and drop of rain. How long have we heard cries of doom over 'CAT 3-4-5', now it seems the Category doesn't matter. Not when their week long hype of Cat-4-5 is falling apart. They MUST be right. There MUST be a catastrophe! Sure there will probably be a lot of rain, and maybe some flooding, but this will NOT be a monster Cat 4-5. I heard last nite it might be a DEPRESSION when it hits the coast!
I don't consider anyone with a degree in meteorology earned in the past 20 years to be credible. It's all about face time and ratings and POWER to make millions run when ordered. Not a scientist among them. Without their computers they know less than we do. Why- will someone tell me- if the data fed to these computer programs is the same, hard facts, do all these computer models differ? You can't even trust the radar they DO allow you to see. The color is manipulated. Green now means NO rain and red does not mean it's storming. So what can we believe?
The credibility of weather forecasting is almost nil, and dwindling. People stay when told to evacuate because they KNOW the doom and gloom forecasters are almost always wrong. So, SOMETIMES, people die because these Doom Buffoons name any bunch of thunderstorms and pull out ever adjective in the dictionary to hype them even after it's obvious reality is not complying.
Watch, long after Flo has gone inland ANY rain in Kansas will be 'Florence devastating the wheat fields!
It has to stop. Hype has to stop. Jobs must be lost. 'Fake news' has nothing on fake weather. Everyone-get a degree in meteorology . Accuracy not expected as long as you can write a good script and look good on air. Job for life!

It's all about face time and ratings and POWER to make millions run when ordered. Not a scientist among them.

And yet, we are expected to place all our confidence in the Weather Channel which only two days ago was calling Florence the Storm of the Century or the Storm of A Lifetime. In the end it proved to be just a storm with a lot of wind and rain. Notice the number of times the rare photo ops of storm damage are repeatedly shown. There is an amazing number of people crying wolf with this storm and who have been crying wolf for seemingly days on end to boost ratings and advertizing revenues. This may turn out to be the most damaging effect of this storm, not weather related but people related.