DHS Using AccuWeather Forecast Info

[thermos]

Chertoff should stop using AccuWeather. NHC was much better with Rita than AccuWeather.
http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?showtopic=53706

also here:
http://philadelphiaweather.blogspot.com ... ws_22.html

[artist]

that P******* me off!

[chrisnnavarre]

Of course they are but they only have until 2006 to get it done....then the party is over....there's a new wind blowing through the south after all of this and it's not blowing east if you get my drift.

[WeatherEmperor]

who does accuweather think they are? they got really big mouths over there.

<RICKY>

[tndefender]

"Imagine if Federal Express were to decide it could no longer compete against the U.S. Postal Service and sought legislation to prevent the mailman from delivering packages. Better yet, imagine if Federal Express had emerged only as a result of the federal government stepping in and telling those bullies at the Post Office to stop delivering packages. Absurd, correct? FedEx became a free-market success story not by seeking special favors, but by beating the government at its own game. By contrast, AccuWeather (which happens to reside in Santorum's home state of Pennsylvania) would like you to know that it exists only because NWS has, over the past half-century, pursued a "non-competition" policy with the private sector, the idiocy of which apparently only occurred to NWS this past December, when it revoked that policy. The earlier non-competition policy, says an AccuWeather press release, "led to the development of specialized weather services" like, well, AccuWeather. The company became a success story only because the federal government built it a special incubator."

Read the rest of Timothy Noah's article in Slate:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2123557/fr/rss/

[thermos]

that P******* me off!

Me too. How much is AccuWeather being paid by the Feds when there is already better information available from the NWS? What a waste of $

[TexasStooge]

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*= Not really a channel.

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