[NautiNurse]

Welcome to FreeRepublic. I appreciate that you have taken the time to address some of the comments in response to your article. I look forward to your feedback regarding my questions and comments.

Thanks in advance.

[JohnRLott]

Thank you. To answer your question, I think that it is much more difficult to scare people with weather predictions than in other types of stories because whether their predictions are right or wrong are easily measured. Accuracy in regular news stories is much more difficult to measure. Forecast Watch or Forecast Advisor are two excellent examples of this type of measurement.