Hurricane News so Fake it Deserves its Own Award

DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

[albie]

Man! Trump can’t do nothin right. ~sarc

[BBQToadRibs]

Because the east coast hasn’t been hit by 1000 other hurricanes before. This one is different.

As of this morning it’s been downgraded to a Cat 2. Still gonna make a mess of things though.

[hinckley buzzard]

The hurricane rating system is misleading, based on wind speed. The danger from hurricanes mostly is not wind but water.

[Lazamataz]

The WashingCIA Post ran a similar propaganda piece.

As I said on that thread:

"And with these propaganda-spewing assholes literally blaming Trump for hurricanes, the powers-that-be want to simultaneously shut down any alternative news channels on the internet.

"We are heading for either very dark times, or a revolution."

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

Remember, as comedian Ron White said, “it’s not that the wind is blowing, it’s what the wind is blowing.”

[Chickensoup]

“We are heading for either very dark times, or a revolution.”

______________

they can be one and the same.

both will have death and destruction.

[shotgun]

Now their saying that Florence has been downgraded to a Cat 2. I expect the media to give me credit for not farting all day yesterday...

[EQAndyBuzz]

“As of this morning it’s been downgraded to a Cat 2. Still gonna make a mess of things though.”

Weren’t the weather weenies looking for a way to create a new category called Cat 6?

[kelly4c]

They always hype these dam things

[MV=PY]

"The hurricane rating system is misleading, based on wind speed. The danger from hurricanes mostly is not wind but water. "

It is a wind rating, which is much more meaningful than the gobbledegook dreamed up by stupid reporters.

It's very meaningful to ships. It was originated by a guy studying the effectiveness of cheap low income housing (which is relatively inexpensive to make water-proof, but more expensive to make structurally sound in high winds).

Saffir–Simpson scale

[Pikachu_Dad]

Hurricane Katrina was NOT a Cat 1 storm when it hit New Orleans.

What is this boy smoking?

[Pikachu_Dad]

There used to be (and still are but they never talk about them) 3 parts to the rating system.

Wind speed

Barometric Pressure

Storm Surge.

Lately they just seem to be rating storms based solely on wind speed. As in ‘since 2005’

[dirtboy]

People tend to forget that, when it made landfall, Hurricane Katrina was a Category 1 storm

Not true. It was a Cat 3 at landfall in LA.

[Redleg Duke]

To announce that you are a liberal is to admit to being insane.

[MV=PY]

Cool!

Can you point me to the other (older) system? The only rating that turned up for me in a search was the Saffir-Simpson, and it’s origin is fairly recent.

[YouGoTexasGirl]

Those are too much to think about!!! Just put it into a category to rave about so CNN can have hours of airwaves of nonsense!

[YouGoTexasGirl]

Houston....a world away from NASA.....LOL!!!!

[ClearBlueSky]

Having lived my entire life on the Gulf Coast it is painfully obvious by now that NO ONE takes these ersatz 'forecasters' seriously. They WANT people perpetually afraid of every gust of wind and drop of rain. How long have we heard cries of doom over 'CAT 3-4-5', now it seems the Category doesn't matter. Not when their week long hype of Cat-4-5 is falling apart. They MUST be right. There MUST be a catastrophe! Sure there will probably be a lot of rain, and maybe some flooding, but this will NOT be a monster Cat 4-5. I heard last nite it might be a DEPRESSION when it hits the coast!
I don't consider anyone with a degree in meteorology earned in the past 20 years to be credible. It's all about face time and ratings and POWER to make millions run when ordered. Not a scientist among them. Without their computers they know less than we do. Why- will someone tell me- if the data fed to these computer programs is the same, hard facts, do all these computer models differ? You can't even trust the radar they DO allow you to see. The color is manipulated. Green now means NO rain and red does not mean it's storming. So what can we believe?
The credibility of weather forecasting is almost nil, and dwindling. People stay when told to evacuate because they KNOW the doom and gloom forecasters are almost always wrong. So, SOMETIMES, people die because these Doom Buffoons name any bunch of thunderstorms and pull out ever adjective in the dictionary to hype them even after it's obvious reality is not complying.
Watch, long after Flo has gone inland ANY rain in Kansas will be 'Florence devastating the wheat fields!
It has to stop. Hype has to stop. Jobs must be lost. 'Fake news' has nothing on fake weather. Everyone-get a degree in meteorology . Accuracy not expected as long as you can write a good script and look good on air. Job for life!

[mad_as_he$$]

Excellent rant!