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Travel Forecast for Monday

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Above is the forecast for 6pm Monday evening. There may be weather-related airline delays at the hub airports in Detroit, Seattle and, later, San Francisco.   However, in the morning, there will be icy areas in the Midwest. White Christmas Chance Precipitation Forecast This is the forecast precipitation from now until 6pm next Sunday. Flooding is possible along the West Coast due to rainfalls exceeding ten inches in spots and extremely heavy, wet snow in the high elevations. The Rockies and Wasach will see additional snow for skiing. 

Sunday Fun: Evidently, Grammar is Not Taught at Penn State

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TBS The Nittany Lion's crowd was extremely loud and SMU had to take a time out. I'm not sure why there was a reference to a false start. Regardless, it should have been the crowd caused  a false start.  Perhaps The Pennsylvania State University should have an English major working the message boards. 😉

FEMA Continues to Plague North Carolina

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FEMA continues to mistreat the people of North Carolina: While I continue to believe there is a role for the federal government when mega disasters occur, (please go here to see my Full Measure  interview pertaining to FEMA from this past Sunday), we would probably be better off disbanding FEMA and starting over. 

C'mon National Weather Service

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The forecast is posted above. It appears it was more than two hours late.  -- original posting This is supposed to be the rainfall amount forecast for the next week. It was posted 45 minutes ago, but it is blank. So are the other, shorter-term rainfall amount forecasts.  This is just sloppy. If they are having technical difficulties, it would be better to leave up the previous version of the forecast than post blanks.  You can do better than this NWS/NOAA.

Funny, I Thought the Risk was 100%

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A Posting For Meteorologists - The Future of Forecasting

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2022 tornado, image by Ben Holcomb The NWS did not  provide an advance warning of this Kansas tornado as the tornado was in progress when the warning was issued. [If you aren't a meteorologist or meteorology student, feel free to skip this post.] On December 1, we published a piece outlining our recommendations pertaining to the future of the National Weather Service . There are serious  issues pertaining to the way meteorologists are educated and trained in 2024 that desperately need to be addressed in 2025.  Today, I want to focus on one of the recommendations pertaining to meteorologists' training:   There is an expectation that meteorologists should be able to intervene and change a forecast when the computer forecasts are obviously wrong. But, as aviation safety has learned, there is no way for people to overrule defective automation output when they have little or no experience doing so.  An analogy: Why did Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash in 2013 in...

Early Christmas and Hanukkah Travel Outlook

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If you are headed to the Northeast tomorrow evening, be aware there could be significant flight delays due to snow.  Forecast for 6pm Friday Forecasrt for 6am Saturday As for Saturday, delays are still possible in the Northeast. Meanwhile, delays are likely  at the San Francisco airline hub and possible at the Seattle hub.