(Disclaimer: Hurricanes are serious events. Asking for accurate information about hurricanes does not mean I do not take them seriously. In fact, my preference for accurate information suggests I am more serious about tropical systems. Requesting accurate information about hurricanes is not inconsistent with encouraging people in harm's way to take appropriate precautions.)
LOL. Did you manage to use “honest” and “gummint” in the same sentence? ROTFLMAO.
The Weather Channel started naming winter storms a few years ago; I suppose they’ll name thunderstorms soon.
Maybe they could name the next hurricane “Christopher Hayes”.
The biggest hurricanes are these guys’ mouths.
BTW, any FReepers that withstood this past hurricane, I hope you came out ok.
Example: Redefine "obesity" and then run headlines, "25% more kids are obese! Ban this or that!"
So now it's redefine hurricane severity so they can run headlines, "x% more devastating hurricanes! Globull warming!"
I hate these people.
Fishing report, wind speeds, buoy data, and stop yer yappin’ and just show me the doppler loop for the past hour. I’ll take it from there. :-)
There are several private weather companies who have created their own scale and it helps their clients tremendously. I know of one that has a scale that includes wind speed, size, surge and rain. It actually works really well.
I guess my point is: This is not a new idea brought on by the AGW crowd. It's an idea which has been suggested by the pro-mets for years. It's just the NHC is so antiquated they don't want to mess with their golden calf and have the headache of re-training the public.
Follow the money.
So-called “global warming” provides endless numbers of mediocre scientists with fat government grants, perks, and privileges with which to manufacture half-arsed theories to fund their Porsches, summer homes, and private schools for the kids.
It’s a fraudulent taxpayer-funded Twenty-First Century cottage industry.
Actually, this is a needed change, as two of the three most destructive storms in US history - Ike and Sandy - were not considered major hurricanes at landfall (Sandy wasn’t even officially a hurricane at landfall). However, risk from surge and rainfall can be very tough to predict - witness the higher-than-anticipated rainfall in NC from Matthew. And a minor wobble in Ike’s track to the north spared Galveston from getting hammered by the surge that wiped out the Bolivar Penisula.