Reminder that meteorologists are charlatans with

I think it was a little after college, I'm on a boat with a few other people out in the middle of Hartwell somewhere up around the ###. I'm watching a storm roll in from the southwest, which is where they typically come from. It looks fairly nasty, I can visibly see the rain bands off in the distance, and the sky is dark.

I indicate that we need to get back to the dock, and have a college graduate argue with me that since "there's nothing on the radar", we're totally fine. Nothing is coming, how could it be? It's not on the radar! It opened up on us a few miles from the dock, lightning and all.

This kind of mindset has run rampant through society. It doesn't seem limited to weather anymore, if some sort of computer model or a dude with a Harvard degree says it's true, well gotdamnit it is! And there's no arguing otherwise.

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Feb 16, 2021, 11:06 AM

serious attention. Two days serious attention. But the only time I pay total attention is in the morning for that day only.

I will never forget Ben Tanner. He predicted a heavy snowfall for Columbia once. Like 8-10 inches. He gleefully got up there and showed us the computer models. Of course there were three, and one showed only a dusting, and he picked the worst one as what HE THOUGHT would happen.

So they closed schools ahead of time. Businesses closed. People took off work, stores closed. All bracing for the impending blizzard. Milk and bread were nowhere to be found.

By 11am something was amiss. It was like 50 degrees with light rain. By that evening he realized he'd blew it. City shut down. Millions of dollars were lost in the city from no one working. Schools closed. And it was all BS, right up until the morning of the BS event.

That guy, and whoever made the computer models, cost the City of Columbia (alone) more money than he will ever make in his lifetime, times 10.

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Not sure about his meterology skills, but he can yell out

Wonder how long he'll keep the PA gig?***

Here's a fun little csb

a couple decades ago some duffas said 97% of scientist

Lol. Supposedly, on Monday, May 10th

I don't get why anyone tries to look at a forecast more

3 days....three days before I give it anything near

LOL like the meteorologist on Curb your enthusiasm predicts

That's almost as brilliant as wearing

I got a chortle out of that

I tell my son when it comes to snow in Columbia

Re: Reminder that meteorologists are charlatans with

Here's your lesson then,

Well, no. Climatologist=/=meteorologist***

Re: Well, no. Climatologist=/=meteorologist***

One is a palm reader. The other, tarot cards.***

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