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Nothing all that impressive in Denver. Slight dimming....expected much more. Solar glasses worked outstanding.

I will be out in Denver. Checked the local news and looks to be at 93% or so. Apparently best location is up near Wyoming I read via local news. Not sure what to expect....reported to be about 2 minutes of something

17 hours ago, Eduardo said:

LOL.  Poor guy.  As much as I vehemently disagree with his politics, can't understand his cold bias, and find his AGW stance flat-out wrong, I like him on a personal level and really do admire his enthusiasm for the weather.  Not difficult to see that he's a good guy.

Seems as if he having another epic failure this year in long range forecasting.

JB only seems do well when you know a storm is coming.

His best days in forecasting are long gone.  Sorta of now just that "guy" in TV weather that the news outlets put on TV when they need a  name.

8 hours ago, The Iceman said:

Receiving 5.5" is significantly different preparation than a coating to and inch which is what he forecasted 24 hours out for us. And preperation regarding plowing and number of snow removal personnel for a 1 to 3 event (which he changed us to 6 hours before the event I may add) is significantly different than a 3 to 6 event for this area. It was a pretty big bust around here. I went out to a local bar last night and everyone I talked to brought up how wrong the weather people were about this storm and how no one was prepared for it. Just because he posts here doesn't mean we all have to suck on his nuts.

What the heck or how do you prepare for a 5 inch storm.

What I see is that most people in the field struggle with forecasting snow.

People enjoy talking about a good old bustorama too. Not enough snow or too much snow caused a busted forecast.

snow is a visual and rain is not. Never really hear people complain about not enough or too little rain in a storm.

And he did very well with the blizzard.... Not

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He is terrible.

DT is just as bad the past 2 years

For one thing all tv weather people should be meteorologists. I certainly want to hear a met like Hurricane doing the weather not a David Murphy saying flurries from a weak clipper on Monday.

Sorta like the CPA exam. You need to pass this exam with your degree to work or be on tv a meterolgist. Take the exam every 5 years.

You may be onto something.

on the food chain EPAWA & Steve D. would be below plant life, there's no possible way one could claim these two provide any kind of value

That made be laugh.

For one thing all tv weather people should be meteorologists. I certainly want to hear a met like Hurricane doing the weather not a David Murphy saying flurries from a weak clipper on Monday.

I disagree. I enjoy some nice eye candy on tv. Ratings baby.

Just need a script and a degree from that school down in Mississippi.

Good post on a weather board where we are lucky to still have a few pros contribute...

No problem. Is it something that I said?

DT on FB lmao: BREAKING NEWS... Wxrisk and the European weather Model are getting a Divorce...

Anyone can be a meterologist these days.

No real science in the profession.

Really don't think we need people these days in the business. A few people to run a computer program and send out the forecast. Computer voices  or a cartoon animated person on your tv screen

I bet if you ran the average all the top rated weather models, your forecast would have been decent for this storm 12-24 hours out.

Only reason this storm busted, was human emotion got involved. DT is the classic example.

NYC is getting pretty lucky with that narrow band of snow.  That may save them if some of the eastern solutions are correct.  It looks like just north and south of the city hasn't gotten much of anything though.

3 inches in my backyard.

If this thing jogs east, NYC thread is going to be a sad, sad place

It typically is that way.

DT new map 1" northern bucks and montco

1-3" Allentown

He may look like an idiot again.

If he has another bust, he should retire.

isn't that his forecast and not a model interpretation?  therefore, he isn't wrong yet.  I think he will be wrong, and the gfs does not back him up, but don't call bust before something happens.

agree.

true test of private vs. public.

only one losing is me I assume. I want snow, most people don't.

No, they don't.  Its done before the cold air moves in.  Gotta look at soundings and not just the 850 temps.  Low levels stay warm til its all done.

Okay. So DT is wrong. Assumption is he does not want to fail or look foolish with his forecast.

Let the challenge begin.

Sad that I can't track the 850 level for snow in the middle of january.

Hopefully I get an inch. Precip looks decent on the models with the 850 line past my area.

Going with the storm will generate it's cold air in my area.

Surprised when I just saw DT has rain ending as snow bucks,montco and chester with 1-3" tomorrow

2-4" Allentown

That what the NAM/GFS show.

Assumption is that Mt Holly figures the storm is done at that point or something.

I have a few news stories on the event I will dig up and post from PHL news papers.. I have the daily news cover with them asking the quesions what met busted and hyped the most. They provided a phone number for each met with a photo next to the number. Title was SnowJob with a radar shot on the cover Monday or Tuesday morning. Bolaris won by a huge margin. For being a weather man, Bolaris thought he was a rock star before the storm. Huge ego as some wather folks have for some unknown reason. He left town the following winter as he could not take the heat for a busted call, one of the worst possibly ever for TV weather people

Bolaris was going 24-36 inches for PHL area and was informing to cancel schools and no business will be open Monday or Tuesday on the 11:11:30 PM news that night. NBC 10 had a scroll on the tv for hours infomring the storm of the century was coming etc. Very unprofessional many people felt. I heard they caused a few accidents and possibly death as they scared people into thinking this was the storm to end all storms. Roads were jammed with people going to the stores in mass numbers etc.

we got like 2 inches at my home in Blue Bell, PA. Total disaster.

You guys keep telling yourself that but the evidence suggests meteorology is one of the worst in terms of making a career out of it. Yes, other fields have some of the same characteristics such as lack of jobs but I would argue with meteorology its far worst than most since most peoples definition of "tough finding a job" means tough finding a job within 1 hour of where you are living (say in LA, New York or whatever) whereas with meteorology it can mean not being able to find a job anywhere. Also, other fields have the automation issue. The thing is with meteorology, its all these issues rolled into one. Also, its not so much about my experience, though I admit I have had some tough times, but what I've see many others go through and what I know for fact is happening at these sweat shops and not just to a few people. This isn't just me who's saying this. All the evidence is there. Just read this: http://www.ucar.edu/...s/john_knox.pdf. Ask anyone who has worked at Weatherbank or accuweather or Fleetweather. I'd love it if I was wrong but the evidence strongly indicates I'm not.

You are beating a dead horse as a figure of speech. You made your view point known in your first post.

The positives and negatives have been discussed and are typically know unless you live under a bridge in this industry.