Lol, they can’t predict the weather 1 day in advance right, yet we’re supposed to believe in global warming?
weather forecasters are like economists.
Uh-huh. Yep. Sure. Whatever.
What a bunch of clowns. They’ve been manipulating data for so long, they’re trippin’ themselves up now, LOL!
Joe Bastardi is the only way to go. :)
For South Jersey the thing that saved us from a foot of snow was that troth that held back the snow.
If I’m not mistaken, the king of modeling, Joe Bastardi, also forcasted snowmagedon.
PoPo happens!
“Meteorologists are often at the mercy of imperfect computer models that aren’t always reliable”
But they are 100% certain on global warming forecasts.
News outlets these days don't do any news. They entertain and neatly color inside the lines laid out for them. A snow storm is so exciting for their pent up reporter enthusiasm that they just can't help themselves. A story to be covered where they can actually say whatever they want to, it's so thrilling!
6 hours before, one could look at publicly available RADAR images of the snow and easily discern that the big snow would miss the Eastern seaboard.
12 hours before your could begin to believe it would.
No excuse.
STOP looking at monitors and models, and do your d@mn observational job as a meteorologist.
In the country we do not need permission to get outside. What in the frack is wrong with places like Boston and NYC for letting them handle like cattles or army privates?
In other words, their model stunk.
They weren’t very wrong. The heavy snow only started a few miles east of NYC.
While NYC was spared the worst, eastern L.I.; eastern CT; Rhode Island, and eastern MA, received 1.5 to 3 feet.
30 mile shift to the west and Manhattan would be sitting under at least two feet.
Try this experiment: Draw a three foot by three foot square at the bottom of the Empire State Building. Then go to the 86th floor observation deck and drop a golf ball and try to put it in that square.
That is about the level of difficulty in predicting exactly where a particular storm is going to drop it's snow.
Maybe, despite all of our technology, weather is still for the most part unpredictable.
But we can be sure that global warming is real, no matter how much proof to the contrary.
In one interview the forecasters stated that the storm didn’t track the way they “hoped” it would. Not “expected” but “hoped”.
They wanted this to happen just as the local and state officials “hoped” it would happen.
They whip up the fear and expectations to create a disaster and you just know it is because they “hope” to use it as evidence of GW.
I mean ... maybe the forecasters were fed false data for a reason and they forecasted correctly according to the data ....
Just sayin'
I'm the guy that tells you there is a war WITH terror (fear) in that, we have been cowtowed into being afraid of everything just because someone else has said so
Freepers here have been making statements all day like ... "I check my barometer", or .. " I look out the window"
I don't listen to AM TV, nor satalite, nor cable ... we have one of those air boxes/antenna's that pulls in about 4 or 5 pretty good digitals which we watch at night for a movie of a cop show .... so I never heard the hype
Just sayin'
The forecasters did not get it wrong. It went exactly as they planned. The MSM got their ‘news stories’ and the stores got their sales.
Anymore it’s always the worst storm to ever hit.
This type of weather isn’t new to the Northeast, it’s been going on for centuries.
This link http://www.weather2000.com/NY_Snowstorms.html
gives the bigger storms over the last 200 years in the NY and east coast area but only the most notable; there were plenty of others.
Interesting stats toward the bottom. This is a media generated circus that feeds the government officials to mobilize and look like they care. The blizzard of 1947 was so huge it affected half the country.
Fourteen-year-old Will Adam snow boards down a street on Beacon Hill during a
large winter blizzard in Boston, January 27, 2015. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
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A snowbank in the Suffolk County town of Dix Hills, New York on Tuesday.
modern computer models are subject to errors just like the old ones were. The old saying still applies, “garbage in, garbage out.” Add to that the lack of scientific discipline of today’s scientists coupled with their always seeking the government dole, all adds up to inaccurate results. The fact that we rely so heavily on computer modeling in so many aspects of life is scary.
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