[babble-on]

There’s calm in his eye, but he gets so blown away

[bd476]

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Hurricane center chief issues final warning

National Hurricane Center chief named National Hurricane Center chief named

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Senior hurricane specialist James Franklin said Friday that the staff already tried resolving their differences internally and that the team’s arrival was part of that process.

He said Proenza had misrepresented what would happen if a key satellite called QuikScat failed. It is now past its expected lifespan, and Proenza has argued that tracking forecasts could be up to 16 percent less accurate without it.

“He has been very loudly saying if it failed our forecasts for landfalling storms would be degraded, that warning areas would need to be expanded,” Franklin said. “None of that is the case, and he knows that we feel that way. The science is not there to back up the claims that he’s making.”

Franklin worried that Proenza’s statements would result in inferior technology hastily being substituted for QuikScat, possibly funded with money pulled from reconnaissance flights sent to investigate Atlantic storms.
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QuickScat good,,,(me likey sat)or(doppler)...
C-130 better,,,(for long range),,,JMHO...;0)

[ThomasThomas]

So where dose the money lead us?

[BIGLOOK]

Hurricane Chief's Job in Peril!

Fails to predict disastrous storms.

[Liberty Valance]

Wait just a minute ...

[Southack]

8 records found in 0.1563 seconds.   Total for this search: $2,750

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Contributor	Occupation	Date	Amount	Recipient
PROENZA, WILLIAM COLLEYVILLE,TX 76034	NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE/REGIONAL D	8/13/2004	$500	Kerry, John
PROENZA, WILLIAM MR COLLEYVILLE,TX 76034	NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE/METEOROLOG	12/11/2006	$500	Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana
PROENZA, WILLIAM MR COLLEYVILLE,TX 76034	NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES/DIRECTOR	8/15/2003	$250	Republican National Cmte
PROENZA, WILLIAM MR COLLEYVILLE,TX 76034	NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES/DIRECTOR	9/29/2003	$250	Republican National Cmte
PROENZA, WILLIAM MR COLLEYVILLE,TX 76034	NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES/DIRECTOR	12/18/2003	$250	Republican National Cmte
PROENZA, WILLIAM MR COLLEYVILLE,TX 76034	NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES/DIRECTOR	4/19/2004	$250	Republican National Cmte
PROENZA, XAVIER W COLLEYVILLE,TX 76034	US DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE/METEOROLO	8/28/2006	$500	National Weather Service Employees Org
PROENZA, XAVIER W COLLEYVILLE,TX 76034	US DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE/METEOROLO	1/4/2006	$250	National Weather Service Employees Org

[Moonman62]

Proenza has publicly criticized the government for failing to provide enough funding, particularly to replace an aging weather satellite. But staff members say he is misrepresenting the satellite problem, and they worry the consequences of his campaign to replace it could hurt their forecasting abilities.

That reminds me of how Jimmy Carter replaced human intelligence with satellites with disastrous results.