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Did you know making false weather reports is a crime? Apparently neither did Derpy Donny Dollhands

Twilight Hue

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Stevicus said:
Well, a lot of times, the weather report isn't entirely accurate. But it's not too bad, and for the most part, people can get the weather report anywhere at any time.

The existence of this law makes me think that, at one time or another, someone or some group might have been printing up bogus weather reports and selling them on the streets or in seedy, underworld dives.

"Pssst...Hey, you want to buy a weather report? The REAL weather - not that fake weather they put in the newspapers."
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Where? Tell him I'll meet him in the alley behind the pool hall for the pickup. I need accurate weather forecasts, as my job for the coming winter is constantly affected by weather on a day-to-day basis.
 
Kangaroo Feathers

Kangaroo Feathers

Yea, it is written in the Book of Cyril...
Donald Trump is thrilled to announce he’s been added to Mount Rushmore.
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Twilight Hue

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I never realized just how bad the Trump stigmata has gotten in Oz.

Has Pauline Hanson been messing with you guys down there?
 
ecco

ecco

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Stevicus

Stevicus

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A Presidential Storm Leaves Forecasters Rebuked

WASHINGTON — The hurricane was accelerating away from the Mid-Atlantic coast. In the Bahamas, victims were picking through the devastation. In the Southeast, they were cleaning up debris. And in Washington, President Trump waged war over his forecasting skills.

On Friday, for the sixth straight day, Mr. Trump continued his relentless campaign to prove that he was right when he predicted that Hurricane Dorian could hit Alabama regardless of what the scientists said, a quest that has come to consume his White House and put his veracity to the test.

And once again, Mr. Trump’s government came to his aid. Late Friday afternoon, the parent agency of the National Weather Service issued a statement declaring that its Birmingham, Ala., office was wrong to dispute the president’s warning that Alabama “will most likely be hit” by the hurricane despite forecasts to the contrary.

“The Birmingham National Weather Service’s Sunday morning tweet spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time,” the parent agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, said in the statement.
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Now, they're selling Trump pens. #KeepMarkersGreat

Angry at the mockery that followed, particularly on cable television and social media, Mr. Trump has ever since sought to justify his contentions to the point that he even called on his homeland security secretary to display a map in the Oval Office that appeared to have been altered by a black Sharpie pen to suggest Alabama was in the potential path of the storm.

As so often happens in Washington, a serious dispute eventually devolved into fund-raising. Mr. Trump’s campaign sought to capitalize on the attention by offering to sell pens with the president’s signature on them; a set of five went for $15.

“Buy the official Trump marker, which is different than every other marker on the market, because this one has the special ability to drive @CNN and the rest of the fake news crazy!” Brad Parscale, the president’s campaign manager, tweeted, adding the hashtag: “#KeepMarkersGreat.”
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Apparently, the NOAA statement caused some issues with the local weather service in Alabama.

“@NWSBirmingham has a brilliant staff of experienced atmospheric scientists that have helped to save countless lives in my state over the years,” Mr. Spann tweeted after the NOAA rebuke. “They were thrown under the bus today by their parent agency. I stand behind NWS Birmingham 100 percent.”

Dan Sobien, the president of the National Weather Service Employees Organization, called NOAA’s statement “utterly disgusting and disingenuous,” emphasizing that Weather Service employees had nothing to do with it.

Rear Adm. David W. Titley, a retired Navy officer who previously served as NOAA’s chief operating officer, was even more scathing about his former agency. “Perhaps the darkest day ever for @noaa leadership,” he tweeted. “Don’t know how they will ever look their workforce in the eye again. Moral cowardice.”
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Who would have thought that the National Weather Service could get caught in the middle of a political squabble. The local meteorologists were being accused of attacking the president because they wanted to give the correct forecast.

Mr. Spann was among those weather professionals who wanted nothing to do with the politics even as they sought to correct the misimpression left by the president. After he retweeted Mr. Trump’s post with a correction, Mr. Spann pushed back against critics who claimed that he was bashing the president.

“I have zero interest in politics,” he tweeted. “Dorian will not affect Alabama in any way. That is not a political statement.”

Jason Simpson, the chief meteorologist at WHNT, the CBS affiliate in Huntsville, said he tried to reel in partisan commentary on his Facebook page after he saw other posts getting “a little bit incendiary on the sides.”

Weather is complicated, he said in an interview on Friday. “My point was, you should never listen to a politician for the weather, anyway,” Mr. Simpson said. “That’s why we have the National Weather Service.”

And what was the weather in Alabama this week? “Bone dry,” he said. “It hasn’t rained in six days.”
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"Never listen to a politician for the weather." I think that's good advice.
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

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In the news today....
NOAA issues statement supporting Trump's claim Hurricane Dorian threatened Alabama
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Five days after Donald Trump said Hurricane Dorian threatened Alabama, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association issued a statement late Friday supporting the president's claim and chastising a local branch of the National Weather Service.

NOAA said the NWS Birmingham office was wrong to speak "in absolute terms" on Sunday when it tweeted: "Alabama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian."

A NOAA spokesperson said: "From Wednesday, August 28, through Monday, September 2, the information provided by NOAA and the National Hurricane Center to President Trump and the wider public demonstrated that tropical-storm-force winds from Hurricane Dorian could impact Alabama. This is clearly demonstrated in Hurricane Advisories #15 through #41, which can be viewed at the following link. The Birmingham National Weather Service's Sunday morning tweet spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time."


That statement is technically correct. According to the map to which NOAA links, there was a 5% to 10% probability that a tiny part of southeastern Alabama would experience winds of at least 39 mph. That also was true for the entire eastern seaboard.
 
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