ALBERTO’S TRAVELS


 


R. A. Schultz


 


 


I’ve often found it vaguely amusing how the National Weather Service displays its forecasts of tropical storms and hurricanes.  The public is introduced to a map which shows the location of the center of the disturbance at a particular time, followed by a “projected track,” which seems to be invariably always wrong.  They don’t bother telling us that the little figure on the map represents only about 1/20th the actual size of the storm and that land masses far distant from that little figure are subject to storm effects. 


 


They also don’t bother telling us that, in the case of a tropical storm or sub-tropical storm, most of the actual weather will be experienced in the northeastern quadrant of the storm, or northeast of that little figure on the map.


 


The current sub-tropical concern, Alberto, is a case in point.  The little mark is WAY to the southwest of where the weather is, in this case, most of the Florida peninsula.  Indeed, I, a political scientist and maritime security practitioner, upon being introduced to Alberto, accurately predicted that he would drift considerably east of his originally-predicted track, the track of course predicted by the meteorological wizards of smart at NWS.   Some of these are the same people who are still offering up the anthropogenic global warming hoax.

Rocky
I can read a financial statement but I cannot understand weather maps!! My pet peeve. Just TELL me if it's going to rain, snow, hail or be hot or cold. Just tell me please!!
  • May 28, 2018
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