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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWOW: NOAA releases a Friday evening, unattributed statement disavowing the NWS Birmingham tweet...
Link to tweet
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)malaise
(267,784 posts)This fucker would rather terrorize the population than be wrong
demmiblue
(36,742 posts)Pachamama
(16,873 posts)This is scary....
malaise
(267,784 posts)The fact is that the map put out by NOAA on the day the Con chatted that shit did not fucking include Alabama. NOthing changes that.
Pachamama
(16,873 posts)The idea that someone at NOAA, anyone, would try to provide cover for his sharpie addition that was not accurate is truly frightening. Especially from Scientists.
durablend
(7,414 posts)If someone didn't take the fall he was threatening to shut NOAA down.
You tell me you *really* don't believe he wouldn't stoop to that.
demmiblue
(36,742 posts)malaise
(267,784 posts)They would have had to fire me before I revised this one
C_U_L8R
(44,889 posts)Do they realize how stupid and transparent this looks? Do they assume no one was watching the weather reports this whole time ??? What bullshit.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)We have been assured that only the most sophisticated and elegant people can see the emperor's clothes, and only churlish dolts insist on not seeing the emperor's clothes. We will even conjure up an anonymous "NOAA Spokesperson" to attest to the stylish clothes the emperor is wearing.
Blecht
(3,803 posts)The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
demmiblue
(36,742 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,021 posts)Does yours have the magic of Baby Donnie?
You're gonna make him cry!
royable
(1,263 posts)that Drumpf did not mix up Alabama and Montana.
tanyev
(42,354 posts)demmiblue
(36,742 posts)RKP5637
(67,030 posts)malaise
(267,784 posts)It is dangerous. He knows more than the weather experts even after they put out a map that does not include Alabama..
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)onenote
(42,373 posts)and only a couple of the early ones (and not even all of those) mention anywhere in Alabama and where they do, the probability of windspeeds of between 63 MPH is de minimis and the probability of windspeeds above 93 MPH is zero.
Here's a link to the advisory from the morning of Sept 1, the day Trump posted his tweet warning Alabama it was going to get hit by the storm. If there is a reference to an Alabama location I'm not seeing it. https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2019/al05/al052019.wndprb.032.shtml?
Finally, the other main advisory that the NHC issues contains the following statement, which seems to suggest that NOAA is being forced to throw the Birmingham office under the bus:
"For storm information specific to your area in the United
States, including possible inland watches and warnings, please
monitor products issued by your local National Weather Service
forecast office."
demmiblue
(36,742 posts)As a side note, I wish they would make their alerts/info more readable.
LuckyCharms
(17,278 posts)Siwsan
(26,173 posts)Who knows what kind of threats he's been throwing at people.
And, can they produce documents that are contemporary to that time period, proving this true?
This whole mess has gotten so convoluted. The whole point, that needs to be POUNDED is, when he was tweeting that nonsense, on Sunday, the track of the storm was never going to go anywhere near Alabama.