FSU to try its hand at hurricane season predictions

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FSU to try its hand at hurricane season predictions

#1 Postby clfenwi » Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:21 pm

Story in today's Tallahassee Democrat, NOAA gives Florida State $6.2 million grant

Ooh, just reread the story... time for everyone to play "find an error", I see one in the story.
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#2 Postby x-y-no » Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:53 pm

I don't know ... guess I'm a little dense today. Aside from the rather peculiar phrasing about "a cubic square" I don't see anything that appears to be an error. And I'd call that more of a matter of awkward phrasing.
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#3 Postby N2DaTropics » Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:00 pm

If recent history has taught us anything it is that FSU does not seem to have a good handle on the 'Canes...
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#4 Postby x-y-no » Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:04 pm

N2DaTropics wrote:If recent history has taught us anything it is that FSU does not seem to have a good handle on the 'Canes...
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#5 Postby clfenwi » Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:40 am

I e-mailed the author of the story and as promised in her reply, a correction was printed/posted.

William Gray, who predicts the severity of hurricane seasons, is a professor at Colorado State University. He was mentioned in Tuesday's story on FSU's new model for predicting the power of hurricane seasons.

http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dl ... 010/NEWS01
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