Yeah, that forecast for us (2009 ice storm) was correct, but, NWS here didn’t make enough noise about the impacts, IMO, and the local forecasters sort of followed that too. Nobody actually explained that “catastrophic” meant some people would end up on generators for 3 weeks! None had ever experienced such an event, so, I suppose that’s “understandable”. At any rate, they’ve not made such a mistake again. OTOH, they also seem to try to not go too overboard with crying “wolf!” :-)
A couple of the younger local forecasters are worse about “wolf”, though.
(I guess the closest events since that ice storm would be a couple very heavy rain / widespread flash flooding events, and a couple F4 tornados, which I think they and the emergency services people mostly much got right.)
How could I forget Joe Bastardi!
The latest from his X feed....
https://x.com/BigJoeBastardi/status/2014269433636684000
Maps at the link valud through Feb.3.