O-T weathermen - how good are we at predicting tsunami waves?

They always seem to skew to the “huge event” side of things no matter what act of nature they speak of.

They’ll then claim that people are too stupid to heed any warning unless the man on the TV Box Machine touts the worst case scenario.

They need ad revenue like everyone else.

Big Warnings = more clicks and money

If they are wrong they can always claim “better safe than sorry” and have a laugh. If they are right then they are justified in their predictions.

It’s called business. Theirs happens to be weather and shite.

Physical oceanographers of the OT is who you would ask.

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I'm not sure why a "weathermen" would be good at predicting the size of a tsunami since it is not a weather related event.

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Some “weathermen” get a simple forecast wrong and will hype up a single 14 day computer model shows a storm in the gulf of America heading to the usual places.

Let’s face it the profession of meteorology has turned into a popularity contest in who can get the most clicks or sponsors on a page that make the screen look like it is from the movie Idocracy.

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I'm not sure why a "weathermen" would be good at predicting the size of a tsunami since it is not a weather related event.

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I’m seeing weathermen post about it, and I’m seeing local offices of the National Weather Service issue advisories

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I'm not sure why a "weathermen" would be good at predicting the size of a tsunami since it is not a weather related event.

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Ocean buoys play a significant role in predicting wave height by providing real-time data.

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I’m seeing weathermen post about it, and I’m seeing local offices of the National Weather Service issue advisories

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I get it, not a knock on you. The National Weather Service is under (NOAA) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and is responsible to send out warnings issued by NOAA.

I can only reason, or hope, that NOAA has detail models for worse case scenario of seismic events and since the current event was large, the best course was to prepare for the worst.

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They’ll then claim that people are too stupid to heed any warning unless the man on the TV Box Machine touts the worst case scenario.

They need ad revenue like everyone else.

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I suspect both reasons are true.

You can't trust Big Weather.

At most local broadcast stations th meteorologist is the only person remotely qualified to speak on a scientific topic. Their work rolls up under NOAA so they usually do have an educated understanding of what's going on.

That's nothing to say about stations that don't employ an actual meteorologist and just use a personality to present the weather handed down from NOAA like al Roker, as an example.

frick Al Roker.