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To: JRandomFreeper

I hear ya brother, but they have saved thousands of lives by getting in there and figuring out the beast.


54 posted on 06/02/2013 10:09:01 AM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: mylife

To be brutally honest I’m a bit dubious that chasers have had very much at all to do with any real advances in tornado forecast ability or science.

It’s overwhelmingly been the fixed WSR-88D Doppler radars of the National Weather Service, the mobile “Doppler on Wheels,” advances in satellite meteorology, and the brute force of supercomputer modeling. None of the above are as sexy as storm chasers though, and honestly I think there’s been a bit of defensive overhype of the science they are contributing by chasers who are mostly doing it for the excitement.


56 posted on 06/02/2013 10:15:17 AM PDT by Strategerist
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