Posted on 09/22/2022 6:10:19 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
You forgot “wearing a dress”
No need to worry, there’s a Democrat in office now, won’t be a bad storm... See:
5 years on, failures from Hurricane Maria loom large as Puerto Rico responds to Fiona https://www.npr.org/2022/09/20/1123846384/puerto-rico-hurricane-fiona-hurricane-maria-anniversary
The idiot mayor of San Juan thinks solar power will solve any future problems...
So all of a sudden a new phrase appeared and was reported on. "Named storms". "Number of named storms at historic high!" stuff like that. Propeganda restored.
But people get that named storms is BS. And we see it here, they are at the point where they have to say "THIS named storm is actually a big one".
I did that. Just to be sarcastic. And I was too lazy to re-format the whole piece, LOL! ;)
Supposed to have Fiona brush by us to the east this weekend, but only a category one or two.
Exactly. And they’ve started naming Snow Storms, for Pete’s Sake!
*Rolleyes*
…forecast models show a developing storm could become a minuscule threat to the US Gulf Coast by next week.
Hermine was used in 2016- have they already run out of new ‘H’ names in 6 years?
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/index.php?season=2016&basin=atl
Newsom in Cali just passed a new law...they are now gonna name HEAT WAVES!!.......not kidding.
At the rate things are going, every breeze will have a name.
Next, he'll be naming power outages.
Oooo....Weather Porn!
Scaring the readers leads to more clicks. More clicks = more revenue.
What would happen if we all stopped playing their game and didn’t click when the headline was so obviously inflammatory?
I read recently that five day forecasts are fairly reliable. Anything after that is total guesswork.
Maybe they could drop planeloads of anti depressants into the tropical depression.
Judson Jones and Jennifer Gray, CNN meteorologists
They KNOW, beware!
They sure are getting their hopes up.
Not familiar with that term.
In any case it captures the writer’s intent.
Yep, will be interesting to see, the reaction to a hurricane since a good Democrat is president.
We all recall how Katrina was blamed on Bush. And the media worked hard in 2017 to make Hurricane Maria into “Trump’s Katrina”. But it didn’t work too well.
Since the early 1950’s all hurricanes have been assigned names, from the very strongest of hurricanes to storms that just barely reached hurricane strength.
The naming process has nothing at all to do with Katrina.
Once a tropical storm reaches sustained winds of >74 mph, it is a hurricane, that was the case in 1958 and is the case in 2022.
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