Matt Drudge Suggests Government May Be Lying About Hurricane Matthew

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[bryan999]

Matt Drudge, author of the conservative media site DrudgeReport.com, is being ridiculed over his tweets in advance of Hurricane Matthew's arrival in Florida.

Thursday afternoon and early Friday morning, the conservative firebrand took to Twitter to imply that the storm might not be as powerful as government officials say it is.

First he tweeted: "The deplorables are starting to wonder if govt has been lying to them about Hurricane Matthew intensity to make exaggerated point on climate."

[Democrat_media]

This Hurricane threat is a hoax perpetrated by NOAA and other government agencies and the news media.

It's an October surprise(Global warming etc bs to help Hillary).And of course Obama and Hiallry would tour a "devastated" Florida together helping all the "victims" they still will try it. Funny that Florid is the most critical state in the election

There was never any threat of cat 4 hurricane devastating Florida. winds in Florida are that of a tropical storm

I called it yesterday too and got attacked on this site for it

[lacrew]

Matthew has already been imprinted on the media’s historical narrative. Even if it fizzles out, it will forever more be listed as proof of global warming. Some area someplace will flood...and it will be covered with hyperventilation. A report just said a woman died of a heart attack - a death loosly related to the hurricane, but now will be used to hyper its deadliness when the legend of Matthew is recounted for future generations.

[FreeReign]

Looking at current Florida weather conditions, I see the highest maximum sustained wind speed is in St. Augustine, at 45 mph.

Sounds puny.

What am I missing here?

[Alberta's Child]

Sounds like Matthew’s eyes are acting like Hillary’s eyes.

[Vigilanteman]

She wanted to tell stories. I however just need facts.

Reporters think it is all about them and facts are just background noise.

[Stingray51]

Drudge is an enormous force against Hillary and so her supporters will try anything to discredit him.

The fact is that so far at least, Hurricane Matthew has been a flop in terms of damage to the USA. Yet admitting this is somehow irresponsible and poor form. Kudos to Drudge for having the guts to say the emperor has no clothes.

[GnuThere]

And it has led to selling gas, supplies, and hotel rooms!
Although Disney is probably not too happy.

[dangus]

It’s not Matthew isn’t a big storm; it’s that it’s not directly hitting the U.S. It’s Category 3, but the strongest sustained winds on U.S. lands have been Category 2.

To put Matthew into context, a hurricane has brought Category 3 winds to U.S. land 55 times over 57 years, between 1948 and 2005... and not once since then, in the past 11 years.

[Blueflag]

Go to http://www.windfinder.com and put in a location-station in the search. TRY to find triple digit winds, anywhere.

look here — (and try to find a CAT 3)

http://www.intellicast.com/National/Wind/WINDcast.aspx?region=ssi

When the eye went over Freeport Bahamas, I could not locate ANY triple digit winds in the reports — surface winds.

[Alberta's Child]

Meanwhile, I am out in Iowa and we had some dangerous weather conditions last night. I couldn’t even watch the Boston-Cleveland ball game because of the constant interruptions with tornado warnings from the NWS. Lots of thunder and lightning and high winds. Today, the sky is clearing but it’s still windy ... and the temperature has dropped a lot.

[Blueflag]

Go up to Ormond Beach and Flagler Beach conditions.

MUCH higher, in the low 50s ...

/sarcasm off.

[Black Agnes]

I just sent you a link to a weather station that reported cat 3 winds.

Those of us who were watching the storm all along saw those.

Do you not believe that weather station? Or the one at George Town?

[Moonman62]

https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=IEXUMASS2#history/s20161006/e20161006/mdaily

Above is a weather station about 50 miles to the northwest of the Exuma airport also on Exuma. If anything the storm should have been stronger there. The highest sustained wind was 92 mph.

[Black Agnes]

The claim was: ‘no weather stations reported’.

I disproved that claim.

Now the quibble is: ‘but not where we THINK they should have been’?

[faucetman]

If you live in Florida, don’t complain about hurricanes

If you live in California, don’t complain about earthquakes

If you live in Kansas, don’t complain about tornados

If you live in Oregon, don’t complain about rain

If you live in Alaska, don’t complain about the cold

If you live in Oklahoma, don’t complain about fire ants

If you live in Louisiana, don’t complain about gators

[PghBaldy]

As long as the memorial to Michelle’s garden is OK, all is fine.

[Blueflag]

where did you send the link? (don’t see it, sorry)

It’s not that I don’t believe those links, I haven’t seen them. I LIKE raw sensor data.

ALL the data I have seen point to a VERY compact hurricane force winds radius. AND I have not seen hurricane force winds AT ALL today.

Can you re-post the link, please?

[Moonman62]

I’m not relying on any single weather station. Perhaps the ones you are looking at recorded micro tornadoes, or wind streaks. (I forget the official name.) Hurricanes are supposed to be graded on sustained winds.

[GOPJ]

I have to say, I’ve been watching the data buoys in and around the hurricane, and I don’t see the wind speed numbers they’re reporting. The rotation of the storm on radar seems “loose” and less organized.

Ahhh, facts... such a messy concept for drama queen government types and their hysterical followers in the MSM... That said it's hard to believe our government officials would lie to us... /s

[SamAdams76]

Liberals are actually angry that the storm has not been as severe as predicted so far. They remember how Katrina and Sandy both buoyed Democrats politically and gave them a chance to push their global warming baloney.