To: Exit148
Quote Exit148:
"(from the article: "We were not saying Tampa. We were saying the west coast of Florida," Berg said. The media's fixation with "Tampa, Tampa, Tampa," gave the public the wrong idea, he noted."
The media again!
"Weather forecasting is NOT an exact science! I'm with NOAA on this."
Exit148; "..not saying Tampa. We were saying the west coast of Florida". NOAA needs a geography lesson. It went straight NE and sliced through the state, through Orlando and exited in Daytona Beach! Daytona Beach is on the west coast of Florida? ...Please!..
18 posted on
08/14/2004 7:26:39 PM PDT by
snapperjk
(If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.)
To: snapperjk
Daytona Beach is on the west coast of Florida? ...Please!..The reference that you are criticizing was based on where Charley would make landfall, not the entire path of the storm.
26 posted on
08/14/2004 7:34:14 PM PDT by
kaboom
To: snapperjk
Gee, and did you think the hurricane was just supposed to STOP on the west coast, have a cigarette, and decide to retire there?
28 posted on
08/14/2004 7:34:43 PM PDT by
Kirkwood
To: snapperjk
Look. Florida is, what, 80 miles wide on average?
Charley was, what, 150 miles wide, on average?
Like the cucaracha said, were they expecting cruise-missile pinpoint accuracy? Are hurricanes a new phenomenon to Florida?
I'd like to refer these people to the 1900 Galveston Hurricane, which disappeared 7000 Texans, for purposes of scale.
29 posted on
08/14/2004 7:35:50 PM PDT by
txhurl
To: snapperjk
NOAA needs a geography lesson. It went straight NE and sliced through the state, through Orlando and exited in Daytona Beach! Daytona Beach is on the west coast of Florida? ...Please!.. You obviously haven't been paying attention.
Charley was forecast to go across Florida and exit on the Atlantic ocean side for a couple of days before landfall. I live on the coast of Georgia, and I've been watching it for just that reason - the first predictions showed it passing right over my house. (I also figured that the Sanibel area was going to be hit all along.)
64 posted on
08/14/2004 8:38:54 PM PDT by
Amelia
To: snapperjk
To your #18 ---- The track was up the West coast with a turn expected to cross the state. The storm simply made its turn further South, rather than in the Tampa area.
Years ago DH and I took a weather forecasting course with the Power Squadron. We sailed at that time. I began to respect what was involved in this whole weather subject. You can have constant wind and temperature conditions on a flat area, but you put one tree in the middle, and all things change.
69 posted on
08/14/2004 8:46:46 PM PDT by
Exit148
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To: snapperjk
And you expected it to go to Tampa and - what? - stop?
104 posted on
08/15/2004 7:32:41 AM PDT by
Doohickey
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