Against the wind on the beach:

Ron

 

Heh, heh... a little bit of added drama on the Weather Channel...

There are already multiple deaths and a huge amount of material damage with more to come. I know this...everyone knows this and yet the media far and wide cannot help themselves from being absurd...every freaking time, as your example shows.

Look, kudos to the WC for their informative and well done video illustrating surge:

More of that - less of:

Selling a disaster...It's a 5, now a 3, now a 1, but...

Any idiotic celebrity weather person/news caster in a wet windy area telling us that it is wet and windy. Worse is the same when it is dry and calm, but having them say that it will change. In fact all of those "in the field" reports should be changed to robotic devices that can see, here and monitor environmental events - I think they are called weather reporting equipment.

Poorly discussed models that talk about who was right and when...after the fact..with little about how models are made and what we can and cannot do with them and why.

Any use of the phrase "could be the worst storm of the century".

All media-inspired warnings to heed warnings. Leave warnings to the authorities whose job it is to issue warnings.

 

In fact all of those "in the field" reports should be changed to robotic devices that can see, here and monitor environmental events - I think they are called weather reporting equipment.

Actually maybe with a little work robotic devices can be programmed for drama. A really good hurricane or even storm is what these guys live for. Up here in my little Cleveland, Ohio USA world we don't see hurricanes but when severe weather hits, especially when things are ripe for tornadoes, the weather world comes alive breaking from regular programming.

Ron

 

Actually maybe with a little work robotic devices can be programmed for drama. A really good hurricane or even storm is what these guys live for. Up here in my little Cleveland, Ohio USA world we don't see hurricanes but when severe weather hits, especially when things are ripe for tornadoes, the weather world comes alive breaking from regular programming.

Ron

That day may already be upon us. Many suspect that Al Roker is, in fact, a robot.

Here he is undergoing an obvious malfunction (speculated to be due to a buffer overflow condition).

Look how the "obvious" robot in this pic seems to be acknowledging him as "one of us".

Look how well he gets along with these two...

and here...

Coincidence?? [cue X-files music]

 

All media-inspired warnings to heed warnings. Leave warnings to the authorities whose job it is to issue warnings.

It's as if these people never heard the story of the boy who cried wolf. People have become very weary of the hype-driven media and simply don't listen and I can't blame them. Like the townsfolk in the story, they have quickly learned to not waste their time when they hear the dire warnings in the news. A careful ear can discriminate between a genuine warning from the authorities and the hype, but I think we have become numb to all such warnings. Frankly the authorities don't help their cause all that much either. An abundance of caution is understandable but they overlook and underestimate the "cry wolf" effect.