re: Storm Tracking Thread: Post Tropical Storm Hermine

A heads up with the map and the forecast cone going around - a lot of times, Oil and Gas companies want well advance warning that these things are coming this way. They'd rather err on the side of caution and thus have a lot more tolerance for wrong forecasts, hence bigger cones, cones established before a storm even forms, etc. TBH when a system does form and a cone comes out, it wouldn't surprise me if it were close to what this company is putting out. Thing is, the purpose of the company is to give WAY advanced, overly cautious warning. They have much higher tolerance for saying something will form and it not forming, than saying nothing will form and something does.