This is what happens when you have an incurious, ignorant,

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anti-empathetic loony run the country WHOSE ADMINISTRATION HAS NO USE FOR SCIENCE. Think about it - his misadmin essentially forces rewriting of scientific research. They likely haven't progressed in weather forecasting beyond putting their finger in the air. Why should we be assuming that they would watch the Weather Channel, since he can't understand anything beyond the level of My Pet Goat (and even that took him 7 min to sort out, if indeed he ever did).