Now, personally, I think naming winter storms is pretty dumb, but whatever it takes to draw viewer eyeballs to your TV "meteorologists."
Anyway.
The "news" item includes this:
When you click the link that purports to go to the "northern half of Washington"?Washington
The National Weather Service has issued various flood watches, winter storm warnings and high wind watches for the northern half of Washington.
KCPQ out of Seattle-Tacoma is warning drivers to prepare for snowy roads and and possible delays on the Cascade mountain passes on Monday. More than a foot of new snow is expected above 4,000 feet, and 6 to 10″ at Snoqualmie Pass.
It takes you to a weather forecast for Washington DC.
So.
Much.
Fail.
2 comments:
If you think that's bad, trying reading through NOTAMS during flight planning. The computer has your filed route yet one is forced to wade through pages of information about areas thousands of miles from your route. It's worse, some of those NOTAMS may already be expired but one may not know just from the reading. Ugh
This naming storms business can become ominous. Consider how insurance companies (and we know the ins co run the marine and aviation worlds) will deny claims arising from named storms (hurricanes). I wonder how the ins co will respond to the Weather Channel naming winter storms.
Hmmm, does that qualify as an oopsie??? I gave up on them and I just go to the NOAA site...
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