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US weather channel
08. 22. 2011 21:20
aingeal
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Is it me or The Weather Channel "Meteorologists" are creaming their pants at the sight of a hurricane that could hit the US?
"Ow f**k yes, people are going to get their home destroyed! OH YA BABY!"
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Re : US weather channel
08. 22. 2011 22:27
Esoom
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Reverse fear mongering?
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Re : US weather channel
08. 23. 2011 00:05
aingeal
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I'm vacationning in the projected path of hurricane Irene right now. (or not. That damn women of a depression keeps changing her mind about where she's going)
Am I insane to not having pissed myself in fear yet? I think not.
That was just plain ridiculous.
Serious Quote
"This could strenghten to a category 4 hurricane in the next 48 hours. That mean CATASTROPHIC DAMAGE PEOPLE! LOOK UP CATASTROPHIC IN THE DICTIONNARY (A special wtf for that one). Oh and people of the northeast watching us and wondering if they should be worried? BE WORRIED! THIS COULD HEAD TOWARD YOU! DO NOT DARE TO STOP FOLLOWING OUR COVERAGE!"
I mean wtf? Seriously?
For information, the quote isn't exagerated. Thats the sad part.
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Re : US weather channel
08. 23. 2011 08:05
Valefar
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The advent of the 24-hour news cycle has made fear the best selling point for the media; if you aren't afraid, then why the hell would you watch a 24-hour weather forecast? I use them once in a while for snow reports, but they are surprisingly slow when it comes to road closures, accumulation, and so on.
If there wasn't a hurricane season, tornado season, blizzard season, or heat wave, the weather channel would have about 8 minutes of programming.
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Re : US weather channel
08. 23. 2011 14:49
aingeal
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Irene downgraded to a one, they expended the threat.
Lots of logic.
"she lost strenght, but she'll just pick up so much more you won't believe it!!!!!"
Btw, I have some basic knowledge in meteorology, and as far as I see it right now, if that Depression system stays in the north east, and that high pressure center over the ocean, she'll catch on the probable low level jet (LLJ) that is created between them, and run off mid atlantic with a NNW trajectory, only glancing the coast.
We'll see.
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Re : US weather channel
08. 23. 2011 15:27
Invinciblor
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Originally Posted by Falcon91
Ya they failed to alert a town up here in Canada that got annihilated by a tornado...this is why no one up here trusts the weather channel.
Ah, wait a sec. Pics or it wasn't a tornado. At least if you ask Environment Canada >.>
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Re : US weather channel
08. 23. 2011 15:39
aingeal
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Originally Posted by Falcon91
Originally Posted by Valefar
The advent of the 24-hour news cycle has made fear the best selling point for the media; if you aren't afraid, then why the hell would you watch a 24-hour weather forecast? I use them once in a while for snow reports, but they are surprisingly slow when it comes to road closures, accumulation, and so on.
If there wasn't a hurricane season, tornado season, blizzard season, or heat wave, the weather channel would have about 8 minutes of programming.
Ya they failed to alert a town up here in Canada that got annihilated by a tornado...this is why no one up here trusts the weather channel.
Where is that? And as far as meteorological prevision goes, I trust flightplanning thx alot. (http://www.flightplanning.navcanada.ca) altough it only give about 24 hour forecast or so around major airports. Rest you gotta guess yourself. Weather Channel Canada/Météomédia(QC) are nothing but a bunch of reporter (most aint even meteorologist) with a climato-alarmist agenda that would sell their firstborn to make you believe we are all going to die soon if we don't thrash our cars and take bicycles right fucking now. They forget along the way their job is to present forecast and fail at it. I call MeteoMedia Meteomediocre. Basically Weather Crap. Best one I saw yet : Currently : sunny, wind calm 25 degree Celsius. Look outside window: Massive thunderstorm, wind looking like its about to rip a tree off.
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Re : US weather channel
08. 24. 2011 01:08
aingeal
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they missed an F3?
Geez they must actually ram their office door a few times a day before seeing it.
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Re : US weather channel
08. 24. 2011 02:19
Invinciblor
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Originally Posted by Falcon91
Originally Posted by Invinciblor
Originally Posted by Falcon91
Ya they failed to alert a town up here in Canada that got annihilated by a tornado...this is why no one up here trusts the weather channel.
Ah, wait a sec. Pics or it wasn't a tornado. At least if you ask Environment Canada >.>
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20110823/goderich-tornado-clean-up-110823/ I got a friend who watched it from their house invinciblor. Aingal there is the link right there.
Lol, sorry. The joke is that if a small tornado hits some town or something, they have to call it a "funnel cloud" on The Weather Network unless someone caught the tornado on camera and showed it to Environment Canada, because they won't class what was obviously a tornado as such based on damage and witness reports alone.
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Re : US weather channel
08. 24. 2011 10:20
aingeal
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Originally Posted by Invinciblor
Originally Posted by Falcon91
Originally Posted by Invinciblor
Originally Posted by Falcon91
Ya they failed to alert a town up here in Canada that got annihilated by a tornado...this is why no one up here trusts the weather channel.
Ah, wait a sec. Pics or it wasn't a tornado. At least if you ask Environment Canada >.>
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20110823/goderich-tornado-clean-up-110823/ I got a friend who watched it from their house invinciblor. Aingal there is the link right there.
Lol, sorry. The joke is that if a small tornado hits some town or something, they have to call it a "funnel cloud" on The Weather Network unless someone caught the tornado on camera and showed it to Environment Canada, because they won't class what was obviously a tornado as such based on damage and witness reports alone.
They actually class tornadoes based on damage and corridor of destruction. A funnel cloud is how tornadoes are anticipated. Navcanada's METAR and TAF identify them as +FC. (severe funnel cloud, to read tornado)
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Re : US weather channel
08. 24. 2011 22:14
Invinciblor
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Originally Posted by aingeal
Originally Posted by Invinciblor
Lol, sorry. The joke is that if a small tornado hits some town or something, they have to call it a "funnel cloud" on The Weather Network unless someone caught the tornado on camera and showed it to Environment Canada, because they won't class what was obviously a tornado as such based on damage and witness reports alone.
They actually class tornadoes based on damage and corridor of destruction. A funnel cloud is how tornadoes are anticipated. Navcanada's METAR and TAF identify them as +FC. (severe funnel cloud, to read tornado)
Yeah I... I was only adding in my small poke at The Weather Network. That's something they were whining about on TV, that Environment Canada failed to classify a tornado properly until they saw pictures of the actual tornado. I wasn't trying to start a pedantic meteorological policy discussion, sorry.
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