[mplc51]

Must see Trump Tweet
https://twitter.com/i/status/1170089069105340416

[rktman]

WOW! Even the astute brits missed the joke as well as the noaa employees. I hesitate to say ‘workers’.

[FatherofFive]

This is the best they have against our President?

"The President listened to NOAA? IMPEACH!

[pepsionice]

I think if folks go back to the 10 days prior....a fair number of TV weather experts in Alabama were talking over the impact of the hurricane continuing on into Alabama at a reduced level.

[BluH2o]

This is a nothing story yet ABC evening news with David Muir devoted time to it on their news a couple of days ago. Pure liberal claptrap in order to once again denigrate Trump.

[Vendome]

You guys have a flippin agenda.

You could have issued an update to the president afterward and he could have updated the public

As it is, not particularly good forecasters anyway

[thoughtomator]

This is stupid. It’s not as if the chances of Alabama being hit by what was then a Cat 5 hurricane were zero on September 1st.

[Vaquero]

The left is grasping at straws and them complaining they’re made of plastic.

[Kirkwood]

Never mind that the Emergency Management system and the Red Cross were activated in Alabama as well as the military bases in the state put on alert.

[elpadre]

” ..Hurricane Dorian was headed for Alabama...”

For pete’s sake - it’s a matter of record; there was TV early on TV broadcasts showing the eye of the storm crossing Florida into the Gulf of Mexico and a projected cone into the Alabama/Mississippi area. Look it up!!!

[Major Matt Mason]

I guess this stupid and phony kerfuffle just provides further proof that Muh Russia was another Leftist scam. They are running out of ways to attack Trump, so they turn to ridiculous things like this nothingburger.

[fso301]

The weather guessers love the internet because they can continuously update their guesses to make their guessing appear more reliable.

[hadaclueonce]

Air Traffic Contract them.
Snowflakes

[Hot Tabasco]

I don’t see what all the blame throwing is all about. I doubt anyone in Alabama really gave a rat’s butt about the storm. Before I trust what any of the weather people tell me, I look out the window first........

[Wuli]

Stupid stupid stupid press, making a mountain out of mole hill.

OBVIOUSLY when Trump spoke he was speaking from a knowledge base that came from NOAA earlier than when he was speaking, which was an early estimate of Dorian’s course, which at the time Trump was speaking was not NOAA’s most recent estimate.

[freeandfreezing]

The extent of Trump Derangement Syndrome in the media and liberal government employees is shocking. They start by misquoting, or intentionally misunderstanding what President Trump says. And then they make up total nonsense.

The entire set of NOAA hurricane cone images is available from NOAA's website here. Anyone who wants to can look at the whole series of predictions they made -- including the one used by President Trump in his presentation.

Right across the top of the chart it says "The cone contains the probable path of the storm center but does not show the size of the storm. Hazardous conditions can occur outside of the cone." And the same chart shows a yellow indication of the actual size of the hurricane, which extends outside of the cone. You can see it in the chart President Trump is holding.

It is immediately apparent to anyone looking at the chart that if the hurricane, shown in yellow, just stayed the same size and moved to the outer edge of the cone, it would have its northwest quadrant very close to Alabama and tropical storm force winds would extend into Alabama. If it got bigger, as it was predicted to, and did, then more of Alabama would be in the hurricane. In fact the black line is a pretty good outline of where the outline of the hurricane would be.

Any NWS person who looks at the chart being presented by President Trump and says there is no predicted storm risk for Alabama is either a liar or totally incompetent. Of course now that we know what happened, and that every early prediction NOAA made about the hurricane path over the United States was wrong, we have NWS people saying President Trump was wrong, since after all later forecasts placed the hurricane further east.

NOAA and NWS need to admit that in general their prediction skills are very limited. They are wrong on 24 hour predictions many times. Here in New Hampshire they predicted heavy rains from Dorian yesterday and today. But they were wrong. Dorian is further out to sea and we have clear skies.

[Conserv]

The media has lost its F’ing mind.

Trump and Boris have caused them to go around the bend.

[Regulator]

Um, does anyone care what a British tabloid thinks about what’s happening in the US?

Do you know anyone in the US who actually reads this drivel?

[faucetman]

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2019/DORIAN_graphics.php?product=wind_probs_34_F120

Facts are tough things for the leftists to believe.

Am I missing somethings? Reports/stories all over the place talk/report as if Trump himself took a sharpie and modified a weather map.

The video I’ve seen shows Trump displaying the map with an extended area possibly made (by an artist) with a sharpie, already drawn on it. NOT something crude like an amateur would draw.

Trump didn’t pull out a sharpie and doctor the weather map!

[upchuck]

Dorian was predicted by NOAA to hit Alabama. You don't need a secret decoder ring or restricted software to see this.

Just follow this link to NOAA graphics showing this plain as day. Too bad President Trump didn't show this to the world.

As you can see in the graphic, as one time more than 50% of Alabama was involved.