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In reply to the discussion: What in the actual fuck: The President of the United States altered a National Hurricane Center map [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(106,617 posts)Here's that forecast: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2019/al05/al052019.fstadv.021.shtml?
The last item on it is
OUTLOOK VALID 03/1200Z 28.1N 81.5W...INLAND
MAX WIND 65 KT...GUSTS 80 KT.
That's just south of Orlando, the last point on the diagram the Brat scrawled over. Once a hurricane is inland, its winds decrease (the forecast for 1200 on the 2nd, ie 24 hours earlier, was max sustained winds 115 kts - then, it would have been about 30 miles off Vero Beach). So even if it had got to the closest point to Alabama on the real chart, it would have lost a lot more power (below 64 knots and it stops being called a hurricane). And still wouldn't have reached Alabama.
What we have here is a spoiled child who can't admit he's a dumbass who failed at his basic job of understanding briefings, and passing on information to the public, so he's now trying to alter history to get an excuse. It's pathetic. He's said "get me the diagram where it was closest to Alabama", then "yeah, but what if it went further???? Huh???? Yeah, they didn't think of that", grabbed a sharpie, made up his own pathetic mushroom-shaped extension, said "see? That's huge. That's what women tell me..." and decided to embarrass the USA by showing his stupid drawing on national TV like a 5 year old bringing home what they did in kindergarten.
Just imagine the lack of self-respect his flunkies now have.