Cliff Mass said it best this morning:
As I will describe in a future blog, this was not a failure so much of the models, but of communication of uncertainty. My profession has to stop providing the worst case or most probable weather evolution, but provide society with full probabilistic guidance. Yesterday was a good example of the failure mode when we do not. The media, such as the Seattle Times and several TV stations, were happy to hype up the storm because of all the interest in such events. Many events were unnecessarily cancelled or postponed, some on Friday or Saturday morning when there was no chance of strong winds.
Of course, we will rebuild from the devastation:
Today? Dealing with priorities - critters have been fed so I am out for coffee. Working at home getting ready for the radio network tonight and the great shakeout on Thursday.
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