NOAA backs Trump on Alabama hurricane forecast, rebukes Weather Service for accurately contradicting

[Polybius]

Source: The Washington Post

The federal agency that oversees the National Weather Service has sided with President Trump over its own scientists in the ongoing controversy over whether Alabama was at risk of a direct hit from Hurricane Dorian.

In a statement released Friday afternoon, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) stated Alabama was in fact threatened by the storm at the time Trump tweeted Alabama would “most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated.”

Referencing archived hurricane advisories, the NOAA statement said that information provided to the president and the public between Aug. 28 and Sept. 2 “demonstrated that tropical-storm-force winds from Hurricane Dorian could impact Alabama."

In an unusual move, the statement also admonished its National Weather Service office in Birmingham, Ala., which had released a tweet contradicting Trump’s claim and stating, “Alabama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/09/06/noaa-backs-president-trump-alabama-hurricane-forecast-rebukes-weather-service-office-that-accurately-contradicted-him/

[not_the_one]

1. WHO at the NOAA said this?

Who was told to lie so turdface could continue the charade?

[mbusby]

2. The NOAA federal agency is...

...Barry Myers, trump appointee.

[not_the_one]

3. Thanks.

I just read the thread in GD.

I hope reporters will follow up on this...

[Turbineguy]

4. All these clowns want to go to jail for trump.

[PSPS]

5. Baghdad Barry

[area51]

6. "... in the ongoing controversy ..."

Should read:

"... in the ongoing Trump-created controversy ...."

There fixed it for ya, WaPo.

[Historic NY]

7. Some unnamed spokesperson for NOAA.....

I did see that the people from the National Weather Service are hopping mad.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Not just NWS mets

Mets from all over the country are raging (including on a weather forum that I post on).

[Delphinus]

12. That's good to know.

I recently bought the NOAA weather app that I now want to take off because I don't want to support them.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Well - I wouldn't throw everyone and everything in there under the bus

due to some political appointee ass who used to be an exec. at Accuweather, sadly an organization that has had a long-standing, often "public" beef with the NWS.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. I posted this in a LBN thread yesterday - the "statement"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142364368#post9

Link to tweet

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5:50 PM - Sep 6, 2019

Link to statement with embedded clickable link - https://www.noaa.gov/news/statement-from-noaa

That link goes to the series of their "wind probabilities" cones for the storm - https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2019/DORIAN_graphics.php?product=wind_probs_34_F120

And the referenced ones had nothing to do with the situation at the time of the press conference.

[Chemisse]

10. Reality successfully subverted, yet again. n/t

[The Wizard]

11. Another governmant agency

that goes in the "not to be trusted" category. Why did it take 5 days for them to take this position? Given Trump's history, they were waiting for the bribe check to clear. This one could carry serious consequences as the majority of Americans do not trust Trump, and could reasonably ignore warnings coming from NOAA.

[Roy Rolling]

14. "We have the video"

At the time the Moron-in-Chief warned that Alabama was targeted, the NWS had the hurricane’s path clearly avoiding Alabama.

[dalton99a]

15. If he can get the NOAA to change the weather, what other government data is he changing?

[Bayard]

16. Oh for Petesakes!

This should have just been a blip on the idiot radar. Not a full blown scandal that keeps getting covered.

Not like tRump's latest grift scheme with ordering the military to stay at his palaces.

[BlueIdaho]

17. Trump has carefully positioned his sycophants as agency heads

Sadly, we should expect more of this from all federal agencies - including the military.

[The Liberal Lion]

23. indeed

[jeffreyi]

18. This is seriously disgusting.

[Sapient Donkey]

19. Imagine if Trump simply said he was incorrect at the time because he was using

older information that wasn't valid any longer. You know, like a normal person would do.

[Sugar Smack]

20. It never occurred to me that this could even happen.

Et tu, NOAA?

[Paladin]

21. Big-time trump creep in charge of NOAA.

She's not even close to being any sort of weather scientist.

[The Liberal Lion]

22. The real message behind this deceit

Is should trump lose the next election (like he already did in the first place) he will not accept the results.