I hate to keep harping on the weather, but this 3 day storm event we had here was rather epic. I’ve never seen anything like it. As I use the NOAA site daily, sometimes multiple times daily, I find them an invaluable service. So I saw a little tidbit they had posted:
Over the past week, the Mid-South has been impacted by an unprecedented stretch of severe weather and historic rainfall. This prolonged event has led to multiple devastating tornadoes, damaging winds, destructive hail, and widespread, ongoing flooding across much of the region.
We are just beginning to analyze the scale and scope of the impacts. The nature of this event makes it difficult to put into context immediately. In the coming weeks, we’ll be working closely with our emergency management partners to survey the impacts and help frame what this means for our communities and how it fits into historical perspective.
So… I’m not the only one a little shell shocked from this event. There’s a pun in there if you want it.
To think, a National Weather Service, that does so much good for every community in this country, is one of the government agencies being sledgehammered by our idiots in charge. I suppose if there’s weather they don’t like, they can just make sure no one knows its coming, and then it never happened when it did? It’s tough trying to think like an idiot.
https://www.weather.gov/meg/PreliminaryStatementonRecentSevereWeatherandFloodingImpacts
Evidence Based Reality 
And back in the late 1970’s, early ’80’s mind you, all the world’s great meteorological, geoscientific, environmental, ecological, and climatologists, all listed explicitly and precisely WHAT would begin happening as our global climate began the domino-effect if humans did not do anything or enough to stem/slow these extreme weather symptoms to a sick planet! The late 70’s early 80’s folks!
We are now fully in ALL those bad, bad signs and symptoms: every year more and more extreme weather events. It wasn’t rocket science back then. It isn’t now.
IMO, we are right on the edge, if not already past it, of the Point of No Return. Mother Earth is going to reap the worst whirlwind of vengeance on us humans, animals, plants, and all things in order to try to return to homeostasis. Guarantee it.
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Unfortunately, Professor, you’re right. The climate is doing exactly what has been predicted for decades already. More chaotic weather patterns, more intense storms, the disruption of centuries old weather patterns… the list goes on and on.
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I don’t think you are too far off base at all. The corporate greed machine just can’t stop, change gears, or even think about alternatives to a Fossil Fuel Based Economy. We are all pretty much, inescapably, entwined in the system. The opportunity to change our ways, has likely come and gone. If we all could start living Amish tomorrow, it’s probably too late. The tombstone for the human species should read at the top,”Greed Killed Them All.” And underneath that, “and the last two humans died fighting over the last biscuit.”
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These people have a long, long history of blaming the messenger. If they don’t like the facts, then the facts are “fake news” and the person(s) reporting those facts is part of some mysterious conspiracy trying to delude the public.
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Hear hear! Grouchy. Imbeciles, the lot of them.
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I have nothing to add. This is all exactly correct here. It’s … sobering, I guess is the briefest way to state. Thanks, Shelldigger! I use the NWS site at least once daily, depending upon forecast and conditions. I’m not sure how to prepare for it not being available as it is.
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I’d be floundering to find a worthy replacement. I’ve used them for so long, I wouldn’t know where to go.
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There is nowhere. Weather Underground does almost as well, but they depend upon NWS for info and current radar, etc. Their radar is only a minute or 2 slower than NWS, but Accuweather has been up to 25 minutes later on radar in my experience. That’s the difference in getting situated somewhere safe, and running for one’s life with moments to spare. I hope we don’t lose NWS, though they talked about it back in the 1st Trump admin, because he wanted to give it to Accuweather. grrrr
I have downloaded a local TV forecaster’s weather app. Of course their info matches and comes from NWS, but they’re also meteorologists so they know what they’re looking at. So, if we do lose NWS, we don’t get the 4-7 days of forecast, maybe, but we will get local on the minute, and knowledge of storms before they’re above us. Maybe you trust one of your TV channels to do that, too? I hope so!
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Yeah, TV stations have good weather forecasting, and decent live coverage when things get nasty. But they are WAY too prone, to drone on and on about a cell that’s 100 miles from me, that may be a severe storm, and not focus on the severe storm with a tornado warning, that’s knocking at my door.
I like the NOAA radar so I can read the situation for myself. And not have to wait for weather people to finally get around to my immediate problem…
Also, the other weather apps are aggravating, ad laden, commercial entities, that I have no interest in putting up with.
NOAA has no such B.S.
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Exactly, as to the NOAA radar! And I’m sorry about your available apps. Now I’m even more thankful for the one I have! I can just look at it the way I look at the NWS; I can skip the broadcast stuff. It only speaks on its own when there’s been a warning issued, it sounds like the chief meteorologist’s voice, and it awakens me so I can look at radar, etc.
I’m enjoying this conversation, and hope I’m not taking up too much of your time. Maybe you can play with NOAA and Weather Underground next to each other, to see if you can use it if NOAA gets shut down.
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I have WU on my phone. I don’t like it at all. So I bookmarked the NOAA site! Then put it on my app list. All I have to do is touch the NOAA icon and I’m there. As long as it lasts anyway…If and when the day comes NOAA gets shuttered, I’ll figure something out.
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All those science-fiction movies about a barren earth are proving to be more prediction than entertainment.
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Instead of truth being stranger than fiction, it’s now, fiction is closer to truth.
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