“No one really knows”
THAT is the problem, that is tragic and unacceptable. What other profession tolerates people who not only say their job is impossible, but ADMIT they can’t do it? “ Oopsie” isn’t cutting it with people’s lives and homes. Are there any SCIENTISTS working this field now, or is it all Data Entry Computer play? I’d like to hear what the local weather reporters on the Gulf Coast are telling people. Is Miami hearing the same thing as Pensacola? 24 hrs from continental landfall and NO one will say ‘ok-these areas are safe, it’s going here’. And can the NHC-local weather ‘personalities’ be sued for loss of life and property if they are ‘surprised’? If not, why not? Have sny ever been fired for incompetence? Maybe if the public started holding these ‘my job is Forecasting, but we can’t do that’ types responsible we’d get scientific accuracy instead of excuses for incompetence. All the degrees, all the instruments and computers and satellites and still ‘no one can predict’??
Yeah, funny how climate change is “settled science” but they still can’t figure out Mother Nature.
This storm will go whatever it’s going to go. No amount of money or signed agreements will stop the inevitable. Just pray for those in its path
They cannot predict landfall in 24 hours, but are certain your SUV caused all this.
Take some meteorology courses.
That will answer your questions.
Then get back to us.
You’re kidding right?
“No On really knows... that is tragic and unacceptable.”
But some things are more predictable than others. The tides are predictable, the sunrise and sunset are predictable, because the rotation of the Earth has been consistent for billions of years, and is unlikely to be different tomorrow or next week.
Weather is NOT consistent and therefore highly unpredictable. It’s not the scientists fault that some things in nature are random while others have a pattern.
I think the problem is the public’s absurd expectation that if scientists can accomplish amazing thing A, then they must be able to accomplish amazing thing B.
How many times have I heard the lamentation “they put a man on the moon but they can’t even [fill in the blank].”
Well, some things in nature have a repeating pattern and are predictable, others (like weather) don’t, and therefore are not.