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    Sunday Morning Ice Event - January 9th

    in Philadelphia Region

    Posted

    1 minute ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

    And hopefully well above freezing by then although the ground and other surfaces are very cold.  I left a windshield cover on my car (that I put on before this last event) just in case.

    Yeah hopefully but best to be prepared as you don’t want to mess around with ice. It will be interesting to see how quick the precipitation spreads East as it runs into really dry air initially. 

    Hilarious forecast

    in Philadelphia Region

    Posted

    23 minutes ago, LVwxHistorian said:

    And that really shows a lot of class -- trying to blame a reporter when it's the person she's reporting who messed up!!!   Wow!

    Really WTH! Reporters do not always get the quote right. Not sure if that was the case here, as it was 26 years ago and it was not me who was interviewed.

    Why don’t you reach out to the Meteorologist quoted in that article then? He still works at NWS Mount Holly. You could have done so years ago! 

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    Hilarious forecast

    in Philadelphia Region

    Posted

    1 hour ago, LVwxHistorian said:

    And I'm still waiting for an answer: Why wasn't Iovino more ambiguous?!! 

    I think he was trying to sound like he knew what he was talking about so if he nailed it then he was golden!!   Just like Sal here at 2:30 -- "why's he being so specific" -- "it's a dumb approach"!

     

    So you are all of a sudden waiting for an answer 26 years later? 

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    Hilarious forecast

    in Philadelphia Region

    Posted

    2 hours ago, LVwxHistorian said:

    But then why be so definitive, why not just say "it's still too early to tell if this storm will head north or out to sea"??  So easy, right??

    Who cares?! It was 26 years ago. Lessons I am sure were learned from that storm but you have to move on. 

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    Hilarious forecast

    in Philadelphia Region

    Posted

    1 hour ago, BBasile said:

    lmao.  They're government employees, they don't make that much money.  Way too little, actually.  It's public information.  I'm guessing you really don't know too much about meteorology....or any science for that matter.   

    Food for the troll ends here.  Enjoy.  

    He must think I am making millions! 

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    Hilarious forecast

    in Philadelphia Region

    Posted

    2 hours ago, LVwxHistorian said:

    I'm not, I'm just questioning what we're paying these people a lot of money to do -- get extremely important forecasts completely wrong??!!!!

    You just highlighted one forecast source with that article, no? Come on! 

    Hilarious forecast

    in Philadelphia Region

    Posted

    2 hours ago, LVwxHistorian said:

    I mean I can see how they botched the Blizzard of 1888 forecast, but 1996 -- the day before!! Come on!!!!!!

    Meteorology is not a perfect science! Many advancements have been made, but there will always be weather events that are just not forecast quite right. 

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    Hilarious forecast

    in Philadelphia Region

    Posted

    2 hours ago, LVwxHistorian said:

    That's actually part of my point, 96 wasn't that long ago!!!!  

     And I really don't think a reporter would mess up quotes to the point of misrepresenting what the person said, do you?  Was he trying to say that we were going to get a big storm and it came out this way?!     

    I don't think so -- it was just a horrible forecast, and I remember it vividly!!!

    You are wrong! I have been misquoted in the newspapers over the years as has some of my coworkers. It does happen! Not often but it does. I am not saying this ‘96 article was a misquote but it does indeed happen. 

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