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steve2470

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4. It's true forecasts are not 100% accurate....

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Fri Aug 25, 2017, 02:58 AM

Aug 2017

However, the forecasts are steadily getting better with better data, better models and more weather stations.

What's the alternative ? Going back to the Middle Ages and praying to God ? How stupid can one be.

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So Trump supporters think weather science [View all] busterbrown Aug 2017 OP

They are the people that do not evacuate when told to and then complain when no one risks their life appleannie1943 Aug 2017 #1

That about sums it up! burrowowl Aug 2017 #2

yep nt steve2470 Aug 2017 #3

It's true forecasts are not 100% accurate.... steve2470 Aug 2017 #4

It's unbelievable. And it's not like weather science is some "new fangled" thing Rhiannon12866 Aug 2017 #5

Trump supporters are idiots but meteorology is not climatology. Voltaire2 Aug 2017 #6

You beat me to it genxlib Aug 2017 #7

republicans have lied so much they have convinced some people Achilleaze Aug 2017 #8