Editoral trashes National Hurricane Center and NWS

[flwxwatcher]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293844,00.html

[Tstormwatcher]

Gee if I remember right, even accuweather was predicting Dean to hit Texas early on. And their long range forecasts are worthless. This guy is an idiot. Do a Google search and see all of the ridiculas ideas he has.

[flwxwatcher]

Agreed , I in fact did a search on this Character and it seems clear what motives are. Certain weather sites have been trying to water down the NWS for years in the hopes people would pay for their weather services. To me this looks like a lobbyist for certain weather companies. Now that Rick Santorum is out of office and can no longer help said weather company they need some new lackey to spread Trash talk and promote there cause. Just my 2 cents

[Category 5]

Typical nonsense from Fixed News.

The same people who can't get the Saffir Simpson scale right.
The same people who have "mets" that mix up Hurricanes and Tornadoes.
The same people who keep pretending Dean is going to signficantly affect Texas.

That about shows the credibility of this article.

[vbhoutex]

OMG!! What a bad article. The man doesn't bother to add things like the private companies are paid to do forecasts for a small specific area normally as opposed to what the NWS does which is forecasts for larger areas for everyone, not just a specific type of industry. I am not going to waste my time tearing it apart, it does a pretty good job of it by itself if anyone knows anything at all about the weather.

[Opal storm]

Well that's it, no more Fox News for me. They've hit rock bottom. Not gonna waste my time over this nonsense article.

[Category 5]

If what I posted before didn't discredit this article enough.

The network with reporters that stand in 50mph winds and compare it to Katrina


And Sean Hannity says "The experts predicted that 10 hurricanes WOULD HIT THE UNITED STATES this year"

BTW, the NHC did a fine job forecasting Dean.

[Aslkahuna]

It's not just Fox asking questions but CNN too and Nightline had Max Mayfield on discussing Dean rather than the current NHC director. NWS and NHC have a major PR problem that people wanting to take them over are going to exploit. From a PR standpoint, it didn't help NOAA, NWS and NHC to be squabbling like a bunch of school kids in front of the media and the Public at the beginning of the season-doesn't exactly instill much confidence.

Steve

[vbhoutex]

Point well taken Steve, but NHC did a GREAT JOB with Dean!!! The article at best is bogus crap!!!

[Dionne]

I'm confused? Here is my take on the read.

John Lott is a "senior research scientist"......at the University of Maryland. From this I expect he has tenure and cannot be fired. Kind of like his statement about the NWS 882 million dollar budget that "never shrinks". Which he rounded up to a billion dollars. Big gap there.

Mr. Lott appears to be a gun control freak......one of his more recent published opinions. I'm having trouble mixing gun control and weather forecasting. Apparently he is an expert in both fields?

Here's a question....does Mr. Lott get payed for his published opinions? Is he double dipping?

I use the NWS......it is my opening page. The weather affects my work. The information is critical. I credit the warnings with the impending Katrina landfall for saving our crane. 90 miles inland....I had no plans too lay the crane down......changed my mind after reading the ominous warning.

My father was a NWS forecaster. At his retirement he had 43 years of forecasting under his belt. I wonder how many private forecasting companies can boast having meteorologists with this much experience?

I would suspect John Lott as being an alarmist and an opportunist.

[TexasStooge]

I'd like to tell John Lott to try and predict where the next Hurricane makes landfall.

[brunota2003]

The funny thing is that people are slamming Fox News for it. It is an editorial, not some giant article from them! Some person wrote it and decided to post it as his take on things, and by no means does that mean that all of FN is biased that way. It's just one person, however that one person needs to go get his eyes and brain checked before he writes any more articles.

[vbhoutex]

The funny thing is that people are slamming Fox News for it. It is an editorial, not some giant article from them! Some person wrote it and decided to post it as his take on things, and by no means does that mean that all of FN is biased that way. It's just one person, however that one person needs to go get his eyes and brain checked before he writes any more articles.

Especially about the NHC or NWS!!!!!

[Tstormwatcher]

Fox news deserves to be slammed for actually allowing something like that to be on their site.

[wxmann_91]

Fox news deserves to be slammed for actually allowing something like that to be on their site.

Freedom of speech.

Anyhow, I really don't think NWS forecast 10 hurricanes to hit the U.S. That has never happened before. Therefore, obviously some research wasn't done right.