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silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago

US weather forecasting is more crippled than previously thought as hurricane season nears

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US weather forecasting is more crippled than previously thought as hurricane season nears

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silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago
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US weather forecasting is more crippled than previously thought as hurricane season nears | CNN
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Several current and former agency meteorologists and staff told CNN they are concerned warnings won’t be issued in time as hurricane season nears.
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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    It’s the Hurricane Surprise Season from now on.

    Think of all the good things it will get you! No more pesky “evacuation orders”. No more lost time in schools and businesses just because some scientist thought there is a cat 5 coming in and tells you to better stay at home!

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      You aren’t thinking fourth dimensionally.

      If we don’t measure it, it doesn’t exist.

      No such thing as a cat 5 hurricane. That’s just gonna be called a “Windy boy”.

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        Those hit hardest probably won’t call it anything, them being dead.

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          • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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            US homes maybe more resistant in hurricane countries than elsewhere in the US, but storm intensities are on the rise, and conservatives are not known to be smart about resilience if it costs money “unnecessarily”.

            Being rather unprepared will add to the damages. What do people on the coast do when the hurricane comes? They screw boards over their windows. This alone has probably saved a lot of lives. Hurricane strength winds and shards is a nasty mix.

            It will get worse, with human lives getting more affected than before.

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              • swelter_spark@reddthat.com
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                Covering windows doesn’t do that much. The big dangers are the wind ripping the roof off, large trees being blown onto the house, and floodwaters rising above the level of the ground floor. I think windows breaking is more of a concern with tornadoes.

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                if people aren’t evactuating they are going to get more deadly. On top of that increased frequency means less time for areas that are affected to recover before the next one hits. Florida could very well end up effectively uninhabitable due to how many of even “minor” ones they are getting.

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      No more worries about rotting meat on the supermarket shelves because … no one’s gonna inspect it.

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    I grew up around magats. They’re going to interpret natural disasters as “the end times”, which means if they survive they’re God’s special chosen people, and the people who die or suffer must not have had sincere faith and were living a life of sin.

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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      Until a hurricane threatens their Florida vacation home, then they suddenly give a fuck about humanitarian aid

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      Look! Those two twigs fell in a cross sign! Jesus speaks to us!

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      God wills it!

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    Everybody knows that hurricanes are caused by gay sex! No forecast needed.

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      I’ve been doing the wrong rain dance

    • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      You’d think there’d be more hurricanes in Utah, then.

      • bradorsomething@ttrpg.network
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        Less wind and much more soaking.

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      Time to organize the world’s largest orgy.

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      Hot

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      Don’t live near this person.

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    Too bad hurricanes mainly hit states that voted for Trump. Oh and what’s the status on FEMA now, I can’t keep track anymore. I’m sure they’ll find a way to blame Biden though.

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      Trump did tell sanders to deal with it, when tornados ravaged her state.

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      FEMA’s still got ads running in the mountains from the hurricane last year, the one that hit Asheville. So they haven’t completely folded anyway.

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    It’s like a nazi Germany that completely crippled itself before expanding outwards. I feel bad for (sane) Americans but damn

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    Marge says the president controls the weather, so they should be okay, right!?

    • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I thought it Obama’s personal weather machine.

      Edit: spelling

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        Maybe he just lent it to Biden…

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    Thanks Trump!

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    mother nature about to deliver what the deep red south voted for.

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      Can’t wait for them to call FEMA!

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        Not a single magat should be rescued

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          Who’d rescue them? No fema, no states E.M.A, no rescue, no tents, no hope.

          #winning

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            Did you know MS has the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency? I’ve always found it adorable that if you get swept away they’ll send MEMA after you.

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              And Louisiana has the Cajun Navy.

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          Trump already ignored sanders Huckabee arkansas

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        Already Arkansas has been denied FEMA funds for tornadoes a few weeks back. The south doesn’t have a chance. Florida about to become uninhabitable.

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      “Let us be thankful, oh Lord, for what we are about to receive!”

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        These aren’t the people who treat prayer as a sacred thing. They’re the people who think prayer means telling God their wishlist or showing off their morality for others.

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          YOU CANNOT PETITION THE LORD WITH PRAYER!

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    All they need to forecast hurricanes is a felt-tip marker and a very stable genius.

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    Round me, they miss calling out a bad hail storm, then abundant warning for one that didn’t amount to much.

    Thanks orange turd!

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