105 miles SSE of the mouth of the Mississippi River
185 mi SSE of Biloxi, MS
Moving NW at 7mph
Sustained winds 70mph, 976mb
Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 205 miles
On/Off Hurricane List Mash Here--> 
Serious question for the thread.
Is The Weather Channel guilty of massive over-hype on this storm? Could they be accused of incessantly yelling “hurricane” and trying to panic everyone?
How close are they to the classic definition of unprotected speech - “falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater”?
Abb, you know as well as anyone a storm can be very undecided as to what it will do. It could stall and build, change last minute direction, anything could happen when it comes to tropical weather. back in the early 80’s, they downplayed Alicia as a minimal storm and basicly just a rain maker. Well that sure changed didn’t it.So I really don’t mind the hype .
Time will tell whether my old, reliable tropical storm resource wunderground.com succumbs to Weather Channel hype following their acquisition July 2012.
Is The Weather Channel guilty of massive over-hype on this storm? Could they be accused of incessantly yelling “hurricane” and trying to panic everyone?
How close are they to the classic definition of unprotected speech - “falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater”?
( Geez, my HTML Skilz are rusty...)
It's what they do to sell their product- weather. Here on the coast every TV station flies a reporter & crew to wherever whatever storm is coming so they can film them blowing around in wind & rain.
It has always looked kind of foolish to me- but it's what they do.
105 miles SSE of the mouth of the Mississippi River
185 mi SSE of Biloxi, MS
Moving NW at 7mph
Sustained winds 70mph, 976mb
Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 205 miles
On/Off Hurricane List Mash Here-->
All media relies on the National Weather Service for the data it broadcasts and/or publishes.
Guess what! The National Weather Service is a part of and under the jurisdiction of the federal Department of Commerce.
The Department's former head was Obama appointee, Secretary of Commerce, John Bryson. He is notable because of his recent involvement in a pair of consecutive car crashes which were investigated as possible felony hit and run.
Bryson resigned, to be replaced by Obama appointee, Acting Secretary Rebecca Blank. She's a leftist academic hack with a poverty pimp background who is in the same ideological mold of all the lefty appointees and czars of the commie Obama.
So, it's no surprise that the bulletins and data provided virtually minute-by-minute by the National Weather Service would be POLITICIZED, showing weather conditions designed in various clever (and false) ways to frighten the organizers and attendees at the GOP convention. Rush devoted an entire segment to this very fact yesterday.
This is what the Left does. Its tentacles are everywhere, and its disciples, adherents, bureaucrats and stooge media will always carry out their propaganda duties faithfully, including pimping the weather.
Leni