Fake hurricanes, denied aid: This election is about reality versus conspiracy theories
How sad. How sad that someone at NOAA had to spend the time workshopping, writing, and approving a statement assuring the public that we can’t control the weather. How sad that the lie exists at all. How sad that people are so willing to believe that…
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Conspiracy theories are security blankets for scared adults, and they’re suffocating us
Disasters force us to confront our own mortality, serving as reminders that any one of us could also succumb to the bad fortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Every calamity plucks at our core fears of losing our lives, our loved ones,…
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A Sharpie Can’t Cover Up The Last Four Years
Today is the first flash of warmth after a long, cold winter. It’s been a…trying…four years. Even the weather didn’t make it out unscathed. Storms played a role in shaping some of the most important events of Donald Trump’s…
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Trump’s Hurricane Sharpie Map Was A Warning Flare For The Federal Coronavirus Response
We hit the point of no return the moment Donald Trump took his Sharpie to a days-old hurricane forecast in the Oval Office. It seems like we’ve passed a thousand of these inflection points over the last three years. He issued a controversial pardon…
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The Weather Should Mostly Cooperate For Monday’s Cumbersome Iowa Caucus
Weather shouldn’t hinder Iowans heading out to caucus on Monday night in the first contest of the 2020 presidential election. The lengthy and rigid nature of caucuses makes this type of voting more susceptible to dampened turnout than traditional…
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The Weather Should Mostly Cooperate For Monday’s Cumbersome Iowa Caucus
Weather shouldn’t hinder Iowans heading out to caucus on Monday night in the first contest of the 2020 presidential election. The lengthy and rigid nature of caucuses makes this type of voting more susceptible to dampened turnout than traditional…
Read MoreWeather Forecasts Were Under Attack Well Before Trump. Fighting Back Is Long Overdue.
It’s been a heck of a couple of weeks for meteorologists. Expert forecasters had to juggle the precise path of a category five hurricane while the President of the United States led a bizarre campaign to undermine those very forecasts to avoid admitting…
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Call Your Senator And Demand They Vote To End This Ridiculous Government Shutdown
Here’s a look at current ice conditions on the Great Lakes. This is important information for folks who live along the shores of the lakes—especially mariners—as well as folks who have a vested interest in anticipating lake effect snow, which can…
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Former AccuWeather CEO Barry Myers Renominated to Run NOAA
President Donald Trump on Wednesday renominated former AccuWeather CEO Barry Myers for the position of NOAA Administrator. Myers’ nomination has been stalled since October 2017 due to opposition over his conflicts of interest and general pleasure…
Read MoreAccuWeather CEO’s Nomination to Run NOAA Expires as 115th Congress Adjourns
Donald Trump’s nomination of AccuWeather CEO Barry Myers to run NOAA will expire without action on Thursday with the adjournment of the 115th Congress. Myers’ nomination faced pointed opposition from ethics watchdogs and groups within the…
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