With the storm Ian, we went back to PBS newshour to watch the news. Ugh.
We are too much realist, I guess. The sensationalism, the hyperbole, the repetition - the lack of knowledge of weather and science by some of the reporters. The idiocy of the meteorologists to stand out there and say stupid shit while the wind and rain blows around them (not on PBS, but reading about it here - and this happened when we watched many years ago - it was silly then, and is silly now)
It is clear how the news helps not only dumb down the populace, but brainwashes and distorts.
Yes, it's a "get off of my lawn" type of thing, but that's quite enough.
I know that news is often mundane, or just a set of facts (or should be), but - the music, graphics, the whole thing - we generally turned it all off 17 years ago. Just peeking in during a national disaster reminded us why we did it, and once again, off it goes.
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of the upper-level steering currents and if those steering currents themselves wobble even a mile or two, that'll set the hurricane off on a direction it wasn't on before. For instance, how could you forecast a track like this?
or this?
Meteorologists are only human and do the best they can with what they have. Those hurricane hunters risked their lives flying into the eye of Ian multiple times to try and pin down Ian's path, and it was harrowing from what I hear. Mother Nature has a mind of her own, and it's up to us to not build things or at least do everything we can to mitigate the damage in areas that are subject to devastating events like Ian. We have to be smarter about what we can control. Predicting where these things are going to go is one thing that is beyond our capabilities and might always be.
