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re: Weather forecasting is out of control!
Posted on 3/15/25 at 10:29 pm to CocomoLSU
Posted on 3/15/25 at 10:29 pm to CocomoLSU
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While I tend to lean toward safety being a priority, I do agree with you a good bit. In recent years it does feel like almost every major weather event is overhyped and doesn’t deliver (not that we want it to deliver, but still).
Well before Katrina we threw caution to the wind and essentially crucified anyone that could remotely be held responsible. Now we are plagued with an "overabundance a caution" and cancel everything anytime there is potential for bad weather.
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Posted on 3/15/25 at 10:56 pm to BottomlandBrew
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Want to tell the 26 people that have died (so far) that it was overhyped? Just because something didn't happen to you, doesn't mean nothing happened.
26 over the whole South is an statistically insignificant number. Its like a plane crash that killed .02% of the people killed in car accidents in the past week. No one cares about the car crashes, but the plane makes every news outlet.
Tornados are similar to venomous snakes. Everyone is terrified of them, but the odds of being affected by one is very very small.
The fear of tornadoes is promoted by weather bugs who like to think they are doing something of grave importance, and the NOAA to promote a climate change agenda.
Posted on 3/15/25 at 11:06 pm to L5ut1g3r
The media have only two jobs and they do them very well.
1. Instill fear into the people
2. Divide the people.
1. Instill fear into the people
2. Divide the people.
Posted on 3/15/25 at 11:11 pm to L5ut1g3r
We had rain drizzle only with a few clouds, but 10 miles north of us got pounding hail that damaged cars.
What would the OT weatherman have broadcast on the TV station that covers the area? Go about your business folks, it’s just gonna drizzle. Or, be careful and take cover, there could be damaging storms coming for your arse? Or is the OT weatherman so good he can give a forecast by neighborhood or address?
What would the OT weatherman have broadcast on the TV station that covers the area? Go about your business folks, it’s just gonna drizzle. Or, be careful and take cover, there could be damaging storms coming for your arse? Or is the OT weatherman so good he can give a forecast by neighborhood or address?
Posted on 3/15/25 at 11:13 pm to Tammany Tom
Exactly. And the MSM has realized weather is a perfect vessel to divide and instill fear in to people. Sad to see.
Posted on 3/15/25 at 11:21 pm to FairhopeTider
quote:Preach
Of course there’s a certain egocentric Birmingham Meteorologist that’s made a lot of money by getting people really wound up and to call him out is complete blasphemy around here.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 12:02 am to SkintBack
quote:This needs to be emphasized. A dozen-plus people died up there and there were no alerts for them. Meanwhile, the red risk blob stretched just far enough west to include BR and NO, which were nothing burgers.
Have to say I agree. Arkansas and Missouri not in the risk area, but got destroyed. New Orleans in a 4 out of 5 Moderate but it rained here maybe 15 minutes, never lost power and we had a normal day.
I went to a Take Five and got my oil changed during the worst of it today. And there was a line. That’s how bad it was. Enhanced risk, my arse.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 12:33 am to TDFreak
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This needs to be emphasized. A dozen-plus people died up there and there were no alerts for them
Here is the Storm Prediction Center outlook for Friday, March 14. As you can see, much of Arkansas and Missouri were forecast to have some level of severe weather threat.
Also, tornado watches were in place before the severe weather got going on Friday night. Additionally, the local National Weather Service offices in those states were doing everything possible to issue good, timely tornado warnings.
It’s completely false to say that people in those states had “no alerts.”
This post was edited on 3/16/25 at 12:35 am
Posted on 3/16/25 at 2:56 am to PetroBabich
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The constant stickying of fear mongering weather nerd threads on this site doesn't help either.
I am willing to bet those threads have saved at least one life over the years.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 4:03 am to L5ut1g3r
It poured by us around the fair grounds
Posted on 3/16/25 at 5:08 am to hobotiger
Here in central Mississippi, the local mets do a good job. The problem is every jackleg wanna be with a Facebook or YouTube channel posting the most outlandish model runs as a forecast that causes all the fear-mongering.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 5:36 am to L5ut1g3r
Posted on 3/16/25 at 7:01 am to Obtuse1
quote:
I am willing to bet those threads have saved at least one life over the years.
I’ll take that bet.
This post was edited on 3/16/25 at 11:24 am
Posted on 3/16/25 at 7:09 am to Obtuse1
quote:Expound on this.
I am willing to bet those threads have saved at least one life over the years.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 7:12 am to TDFreak
quote:
I went to a Take Five and got my oil changed during the worst of it today. And there was a line
quote:
TDFreak
Strange flex
Posted on 3/16/25 at 7:12 am to Oilfieldbiology
I'll get a piece of it too.
The odds of being killed by a nader is exceedingly low. Very little chance that a person's fate was changed because he was member of a sports message board and happened to read a post in a tornado thread that altered his life out of the path of a tornado.
The stickied weather threads are mostly nerds gakking out while trying to pretend they don't love a good destructive storm system to gawk at.
The odds of being killed by a nader is exceedingly low. Very little chance that a person's fate was changed because he was member of a sports message board and happened to read a post in a tornado thread that altered his life out of the path of a tornado.
The stickied weather threads are mostly nerds gakking out while trying to pretend they don't love a good destructive storm system to gawk at.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 7:20 am to Turnblad85
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Turnblad85
Is your double-wide still intact?
Posted on 3/16/25 at 7:22 am to Turnblad85
Friend,
Yours is a poignant post. To put it in perspective, more Americans died of Covid-19 yesterday than died in this “historic weather event.” The weather dramatists are everywhere and the business of selling severe weather is even practiced on the OT.
Yours,
TulaneLSU
Yours is a poignant post. To put it in perspective, more Americans died of Covid-19 yesterday than died in this “historic weather event.” The weather dramatists are everywhere and the business of selling severe weather is even practiced on the OT.
Yours,
TulaneLSU
Posted on 3/16/25 at 7:24 am to TulaneLSU
Posted on 3/16/25 at 7:34 am to SteelerBravesDawg
Point to the doll where my double wide touched you
Is this how it's done?
Is this how it's done?
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