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surely that is an exageration of an exageration?and who exaggerate everything: A drop of rain is sure to become the kind of flood not seen since Noah
surely that is an exageration of an exageration?and who exaggerate everything: A drop of rain is sure to become the kind of flood not seen since Noah
I was pretty amazed with this message being posted at the time. Also calls of the Metservice coming to the part, after CWU issued warnings first. I think this should only be done by Metservice regardless of the thousands of followers one may have. Its irresposiblemelja wrote:Was one comment about how its very rear to get heavy rain in the mountains with a high freezing level (3000m) so this was going to cause all sorts of flooding problems in low land rivers- what total crap! its very common to get this and happens every time a Large NW system comes our way.
Exactly, MetService are our government forecasters and issue the official warnings that the media use. What is "irresponsible" about warning 40,000 people of possible flooding for example. We had an outstanding amount of people the other day saying they would much rather be warned than have no warning at all.03Stormchaser wrote:I was pretty amazed with this message being posted at the time. Also calls of the Metservice coming to the part, after CWU issued warnings first. I think this should only be done by Metservice regardless of the thousands of followers one may have. Its irresposiblemelja wrote:Was one comment about how its very rear to get heavy rain in the mountains with a high freezing level (3000m) so this was going to cause all sorts of flooding problems in low land rivers- what total crap! its very common to get this and happens every time a Large NW system comes our way.
From what I can see, there was no need for anyone else to release there own warnings.A summary of observation for the passage of Lusi
Warnings issued:
We issued Severe Weather Warnings for Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Coromandel Peninsula, Bay of Plenty/Rotorua, Gisborne, Hawkes Bay, Wairarapa, Wellington, Nelson, Marlborough, Buller, South Canterbury and North Otago. The first warning was issued on Friday morning, the first watch for the event was issued on Wednesday morning, and reference to significant weather first appeared in the Severe Weather Outlook on Sunday afternoon even before Lusi was named as a tropical cyclone.
Many of our followers don't even look at MetService... better safe than sorry mate! Warning people of severe weather can be vital!03Stormchaser wrote:From MS Blog: http://blog.metservice.com/
From what I can see, there was no need for anyone else to release there own warnings.A summary of observation for the passage of Lusi
Warnings issued:
We issued Severe Weather Warnings for Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Coromandel Peninsula, Bay of Plenty/Rotorua, Gisborne, Hawkes Bay, Wairarapa, Wellington, Nelson, Marlborough, Buller, South Canterbury and North Otago. The first warning was issued on Friday morning, the first watch for the event was issued on Wednesday morning, and reference to significant weather first appeared in the Severe Weather Outlook on Sunday afternoon even before Lusi was named as a tropical cyclone.
Nope.Manukau heads obs wrote:so is this whole thread about warnings for CHCH/ canterbury flooding?
would have been better if that was made clear from the start
Oh I see said the blind man
What CWU do day too day is good, they have found a niche that metservice and I'm sure others wish they could have capitalized on. Social media is a powerful tool just got to use it right, that's all.cantygal wrote:I hear you as well Meija but perhaps cos these guys are starting out they don't have the experience that others have. I'm sure they'll learn fairly smartly but perhaps let's not judge too harshly as we all had to begin somewhere.
I'm not in it for the money. You know, like those in the weather business who'll do and say anything if it will earn them an extra buck. And I'm not in it for the friends or the followers; the people who are will also make outlandish claims if it will gain them some much-craved attention.Manukau heads obs wrote:and what is your motive?
It's like certain greedy attention-seekers who routinely made ludicrous earthquake predictions. The result was simply more stress for people who'd already been under too much.Razor wrote:As a Christchurch resident I was horrified by the mainstream media (ie Fairfax and The Press) carrying hysterical headlines as if the world was about to end. It was clear by Friday when the system was tracking further west that Christchurch was not going to have a repeat of the previous week, but despite this the CCC had to waste a day with thousands of phonecalls- and god only knows how many ratepayers dollars were spent on this overreaction.
YES, preparation and forewarning was required, but there was a complete lack of balance at the end of the day, and social media was almost wholly to blame for feeding the frenzy in this town. Those who run social media weather forums should tread very carefully and they carry a heavy responsibility to refer to official forecasts by qualified scientists, and avoid flowery or inflammatory headlines.
Warnings in social media must only be backed with appropriately trained and qualified sources ie links to Metservice releases, etc
If not, then they are in the same space as a certain nameless soothsayer was when predicting earthquakes a couple of years back, and invoking unneeded fear
The story of the boy who cried wolf is extremely relevant here
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Yes, bpo, those measured and intelligent-sounding forecasts are exactly what I miss.bpo wrote:............
Don't you guys miss the dry and sober "Bream Head to Cape Colville..." days of real meteorology?.........
I don't, I like Weather Watch and Facebook Weather and think its a big advancement on where we were at 15 years ago.bpo wrote:............
Don't you guys miss the dry and sober "Bream Head to Cape Colville..." days of real meteorology?.........