DailyCaller: A University of Washington atmospheric sciences and meteorology professor is making headlines this week for observing how bad the federal government sucks at making accurate weather predictions.
The professor, Cliff Mass of the University of Washington, says that weather forecasting in the United States is woefully inaccurate — and laughably technologically inferior — compared to both the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts and the UKMET model, which is purely British.
Just this month, Mass has pointed to Hurricane Matthew and a Seattle area windstorm as examples of the U.S. National Weather Service’s taxpayer-funded awfulness.
The National Weather Service dramatically oversold last weekend’s Seattle windstorm as the possible equivalent of a cataclysmic 1962 extratropical cyclone that Pacific Northwest old timers are still talking about.
this guy is so right, we do suck
it cracks me up that you can read a forecast 2 wks out but they can’t get tomorrow right
if we can’t predict weather, how will we ever be able to forecast and deny terror attacks
yep, we suck
20 trillion in debt and nothing to show for it
When I was at the Naval Air Station at Agana, Guam (back in the day) the Naval Aviators regularly complimented the Navy weather forecasters on their accuracy and asked how they do it. They answered that they actually walk outside and look at the sky.
The same government “scientists” that can’t predict weather 3 days from now are telling us the earth will be 10 degrees hotter in 100 years.
Predicting weather is more difficult when weather patterns don’t fit the approved narrative.
I live up in the PNW, and last week the hysterical gubmint hyperbole specialists predicted the “Storm of the Century” and it was absolutely nothing. The local press is calling it “The Breeze of the Century”. He had a far worse blue sky windstorm in August of 2015 that lasted for only 15 minutes and left our neighborhood without power for four days. And guess who didn’t predict that?