Hurricane Agnes

I agree we probably should but it will be doubtful that it would be done. If anything, they might consider going as far as making it a "standalone" (like EPA) or even like FEMA, particularly after the fiasco of FEMA when it was neutered after being shoved under DHS, later prompting Congress to make them a standalone agency again. In fact, since I mention EPA, they should probably be included in some standalone grouping with NOAA and USGS as you suggest.

Most likely because what they do involves monitoring conditions that might impact movement of goods - i.e., shipping (whether over land, in the air, or at sea).

In reference to the NWAS meeting going on - some tweets of note - The above in reference to NWS head Dr. Uccellini's remarks this morning regarding his public support of the Birmingham FO (video of those remarks in the tweet below and he got a standing ovation near the end of his speech when he explicitly praised the staff for doing the right thing) -

The agenda for Tuesday is here - https://nwas.org/annual-meeting-events/annual-meeting/meeting-agenda/#tuesday-glance And it looks like a pretty tight schedule. Dr. Jacobs has a 30 minute slot and then someone else is on at 8:30 am (someone presenting a research paper), so I doubt there will be any Q&A associated with his remarks. Usually keynotes at professional meetings don't have Q&As and tend to run 45 minutes or more (and often occur in a "prime time" morning slot or as part of a dinner), so this seems pretty "short" to be considered "keynote" outside of them calling it that due to his position in public service... and they have other folks scheduled to give "keynotes" after him.

Josh started a first-person account of his Dorian experience via a twitter thread. Here is a link to the unrolled version (with 5 tweets so far) - https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1170675844815216640.html

Don't mess with Amidala.

They didn't change it with the update unless they have to issue another correction. I would agree that I haven't seen anything higher than 81 kts with the recent drops although there is a newer recon in there still working.

Somebody was looking for you last night I think -

I saw a tweet with a corrected version.

Sandy took out the remaining 4 street trees that survived after Irene took out 6 others on that street the year before.

Josh is up in the air on his way to Abaco per his latest tweet -

It's moving (MW last 24 hours) -

I expect the government of that island may end up operating out of Nassau, which got a less significant blow (although had significant flooding despite no direct hit). The airport there was open but with obvious delays.

His 4th tweet (around the time of the previous ones) -

He had 3 tweets. The other 2 -

He does have a show premiere coming up - I think September 15.

Adding my here!

If that latest update verified, it would definitely be a nightmare - i.e., coastal southeast Florida appears to be in the relative center of the cone's extrapolated "central line". There are strips of barrier islands all up and down the coast and with it being low-lying and swampy anyway, any storm surge would probably travel quite a bit inland. Just seeing the real-time storm surge video from Michael's landfall in the pan handle last year, was jaw-dropping.

I think because of incidents like this (1/26 - 1/27/15) - http://www.philly.com/philly/news/Meteorologists_apologize_for_busted_forecast.html Many were hugging the Euro and dissing the lowly GFS - http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/weather/Snow-What-went-wrong.html I think that is why today, you are seeing folks bemoaning the rise and fall of the mighty Euro.... and as much as we laugh about being "NAM'd", I expect that sometimes the NAM does have the right idea but with the details obscured in the overdoneness of a burnt steak on the barbie. You can hunt around and find the pbp thread(s) here in the forum of that 2015 flizzard.

Maybe GOES-16 will help (or not) - https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES-R-Launch Still a ways off from what impact that will have in the future, but it will have some just due to the resolution of its instruments. I think a lot of what we see today is also driven by the 24/7 world where schools, businesses, and governmental entities increasingly demand precise measures in order to activate certain responses to the more severe sensible weather (i.e., closures, postponements, evacuations) and that leads to model-hugging in order to tease out those numbers and report them as soon as possible. However we have seen time and time again a long range model "see" something 10 days out and then lose it in the mid-range, and then resurrect it again in the short range/nowcast period. IMHO, that type of whiplash seems to cause some to overthink or lose the forest for the trees. Overall, I doubt at this point that "weather" for mass consumption will ever go back to appealing to met fans. TWC used to do it but long sense decided to leave that niche world and go for drama over substance.

The true story (need to go to youtube to view) -

When a storm threat is on the horizon, folks reappear rather quickly and do some great pbps of the models. The past year, winter weather lovers got a screw job. There is just a different climatological thing going on here compared to D.C. or NYC metro.

The "pile" will make itself. Won't need to shovel to create one with this storm.