Senior hurricane specialist James Franklin said Friday that the staff already tried resolving their differences internally and that the team’s arrival was part of that process.
He said Proenza had misrepresented what would happen if a key satellite called QuikScat failed. It is now past its expected lifespan, and Proenza has argued that tracking forecasts could be up to 16 percent less accurate without it.
“He has been very loudly saying if it failed our forecasts for landfalling storms would be degraded, that warning areas would need to be expanded,” Franklin said. “None of that is the case, and he knows that we feel that way. The science is not there to back up the claims that he’s making.”
Franklin worried that Proenza’s statements would result in inferior technology hastily being substituted for QuikScat, possibly funded with money pulled from reconnaissance flights sent to investigate Atlantic storms.
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QuickScat good,,,(me likey sat)or(doppler)...
C-130 better,,,(for long range),,,JMHO...;0)
Hurricane Hunters are the best. :-)
I don’t know anything about QuikScat.
But, my daddy was a Meteorologist.
He was able to “call” Camille’s strength a week before landfall.
Maybe I’m not reading this right, but the new guy seems to be...very political?
It’s so good to “see” you again! ;o)