re: Storm Tracking Thread: Post Tropical Storm Hermine

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That's exactly what it is. Some of the internet "meterologists" cream their pants about these scenarios.

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I know because I used to be one. We used to have a weekly TV program in elementary school and one year they let me do a segment tracking actual storms on a large map each week. After a few weeks I decided to throw in my own "forecast" and suggested a storm was going to come right up Vermillion Bay. The next day my segment was cancelled because kids were freaking out and asking their parents and shite.

I've got no issue with an expert discussing other possibilities, but I'm going to need a little more scientific reasoning than a "suspicion" or the way you "feel".

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This may sound stupid but I want to see what Bob Breck has to say. He was the very first guy, even when Katrina was on the other side of Florida, to call the track it took and to start warning people.

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Yes it sounds stupid because Bob Breck actually said Katrina was going to hit the North Carolina coastline. Nash Roberts came back on the air (out of retirement) and said it was going to hit Louisiana when it was a few hundred miles outside of Miami in the Atlantic.

Breck went nuts and started claiming that Roberts didn't know what he was talking about and that he was the expert. Breck still has egg on his face from that storm.