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(Bloomberg) -- As President Donald Trump dragged the brawl over his forecast for Hurricane Dorian into a sixth day, a U.S. agency released a statement bolstering his account -- prompting a scathing response from the leader of an agency union.
Trump has repeatedly and defiantly continued to defend his assertion that Alabama was in Dorians path. On Wednesday, he showed White House reporters a map that he had personally altered -- by drawing a black line -- to bolster his argument. On Thursday, he tweeted photos of Aug. 29 and Aug. 30 forecasts that showed Alabama within the probability zone of tropical storm-force winds. And on Friday, he released a video on Twitter.
From Wednesday, Aug. 28, through Monday, Sept. 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, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in its statement on Friday.
The Birmingham National Weather Services Sunday morning tweet spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time, NOAA added in the statement, which was not attributed to any official.
The weather services office in Birmingham, Alabama, had said in a tweet on Sunday that no impacts from Hurricane Dorian will be felt across Alabama, contradicting the president, who has persisted in arguing that his warning had been accurate.
On Friday night, Dan Sobien, the president of the National Weather Service Employees Organization, tweeted: Let me assure you the hard working employees of the NWS had nothing to do with the utterly disgusting and disingenuous tweet sent out by NOAA management tonight.
In a telephone interview, Sobien said that the statement was like nothing Ive ever seen, ever, and could prompt people to ignore future warnings. I cant think of another word for it other than managerial malpractice, he said.
NOAA needs to withdraw the statement, he added, they need to apologize to their employees and they need to go out and do a serious public relations campaign to try to renew the confidence of the American public in the National Weather Service.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trumps-dorian-brawl-leads-to-dispute-within-us-weather-agency/ar-AAGWt0Y?li=BBnb7Kz
elleng
(130,126 posts)dalton99a
(81,065 posts)Ilsa
(61,675 posts)We know Purdue at the Dept of Agriculture has non as he's trying to destroy the dept from within by running off the best scientists.
malaise
(267,801 posts)This is the bottom of the barrel stuff - there is no lower to sink - which professional institution contradicts its own evidence to please a pathological LIAR?
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Rachel had the MSNBC meteorologist, Bill Karins, on..he was visibly exasperated..
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-cites-out-of-date-chart-to-justify-alarming-alabama-tweet-68215365620
johnnyfins
(772 posts)...to keep the REAL scumbag stuff out of the news. Stuff like "military being used to prop up failing airport near trump golf resort".
Paladin
(28,202 posts)So glad you live in a world where trump's many scandals can be weighed and graded, then discarded if they don't measure up to your standards. As if we're now in a position to let ANY trump malfeasance slip by. As if the deliberate and obvious alteration of a government weather map, involving the lives of tens of millions of citizens, is nothing more than a "bs scandal."
Shame on you.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)than Trump's. This corruption is serious. All Trump's supporters but the most deluded know not to believe his tweets, but we all have a right to depend completely on the integrity of NOAA's statements.
Bengus81
(6,907 posts)LOCK HIM UP!!
LOCK HIM UP!!
DFW
(54,050 posts)Well he got himself a Sharpie and he altered the whole course of a storm now
(He altered the storm, now, he altered the storm)
And so changing maps of hurricanes has turned into the national norm now
(He altered the storm now, he altered the storm)
He sent Dorian away, and hes waiting for the next one to form, now!
(He banished the storm, now, he banished the storm!)
And hell have fun, fun, fun til Melania takes his Sharpie away
(Fun, fun, fun til Melania takes the Sharpie away!)
struggle4progress
(118,034 posts)He could take them all some nice absorbent paper towels
And he could ask Congress to allocate them some emergency relief funds so he has more money for his big beautiful wall