rdale
EF5
Yeah, looks like the SAPD probably should have added "NWS" in there somewhere - but the end result is the same. Advisories are useless. Thankfully they'll be gone entirely in the next year or two...
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Poor Media Use of Weather Terminology
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John Robinson
EF1
Classic news media error, from KATV in Little Rock:
Clinton National Airport cancels flights due to inclement weather
Airlines cancel their own flights; airports and the FAA do not.
And in the event of an airport closure, the airport authority (city/county/airport commission) does that, not the FAA.
John Robinson
EF1
Doyle Rice at USA Today wrote this article...
'Hidden burden': Hurricanes keep killing people long after landfall, study suggests
A new study from JAMA shows how far reaching and varied the hidden costs to life could be from climate-related disasters.
www.usatoday.com
in which we find this classic:
" A hurricane becomes a tropical storm when its sustained wind speed reaches 74 mph. "
Alvaro ivan
EF0
i think this one is also a perfect cortender of poor media use of weather terminologyrdale
EF5
I watched Fox Weather during last week's QLCS tornado event and the on camera meteorologist was having his assistant plot winds on the Doppler display and after clicking two pixels miles apart reported that "seeing a red near a green means this is a tight rotation, which we call gate to gate shear."
No, no we don't call it that
Gate-to-gate shear is the difference between two touching pixels...
John Robinson
EF1
We should call this one stupidity in the news.
This is the first paragraph in a story from today's Washington Post. "A mysterious pink glow illuminated the sky above the Australian town of Mildura on Wednesday, leaving residents wondering if they were witnessing an alien invasion, misplaced northern lights or a solar flare."
Yeah, that would truly be amazing if the Northern Lights were seen in Australia, since those are the Southern Lights in the Southern Hemisphere.
(The pink glow was caused by red LED lights at a medical marijuana farm. The lights were reflecting off of low clouds.)
John Robinson
EF1
In a recent Fox Weather online article about NWS Glasgow's upper air balloon encountering a supercell and going for a looping ride. we find this jewel:
"Data from the balloon's onboard anemometer showed a radical wind shift..."
Weather balloon goes for wild ride around thunderstorm after EF-2 tornado in Montana
A weather balloon launched from Glasgow, Montana, Monday evening was having an uneventful journey on its quest to measure atmospheric data… until the balloon ran into a line of thunderstorms that had just produced a tornado about an hour earlier.
www.foxweather.com
In a recent Fox Weather online article about NWS Glasgow's upper air balloon encountering a supercell and going for a looping ride. we find this jewel:
"Data from the balloon's onboard anemometer showed a radical wind shift..."
Weather balloon goes for wild ride around thunderstorm after EF-2 tornado in Montana
A weather balloon launched from Glasgow, Montana, Monday evening was having an uneventful journey on its quest to measure atmospheric data… until the balloon ran into a line of thunderstorms that had just produced a tornado about an hour earlier.
www.foxweather.com
Accuweather rep: "Man...why didn't we think of strapping an entire ASOS station (with mast) to a balloon and flying it?"
Alvaro ivan
EF0
Don't forget the Qatar tornadoes that occured back on November 2016, they were called as "gustnado" despite of the dust swirl/dust tube being connected to the cloud baseMike Smith
EF5
All of this virtue signaling is fun but there are plenty in this group who keep mischaracterizing tornadoes. It isn't a "landspout," regardless of its appearance, if it comes from a supercell.
And, a landspout is a tornado. It isn't another type of storm.rdale
EF5
When the rotation is connected to the gust front, it's considered a gustnado. That's what their meteorological agency said.
Gustnado seen in Qatar (No, it’s not a tornado)
Doha: Many residents are reporting a strange phenomenon, which looks a small tornado, in Al Khor. It is actually a gustnado (called Al Afoor in local...
thepeninsulaqatar.com
Alvaro ivan
EF0
When the rotation is connected to the gust front, it's considered a gustnado. That's what their meteorological agency said.
Gustnado seen in Qatar (No, it’s not a tornado)
Doha: Many residents are reporting a strange phenomenon, which looks a small tornado, in Al Khor. It is actually a gustnado (called Al Afoor in local...
thepeninsulaqatar.com
I don't think they can be called as gustnado since this photo shows a funnel cloud associated with one of the dust swirl (it is likely that there is another funnel cloud associated with the other dust swirl)rdale
EF5
I don't recall the radar data from this event, but my note was that when the Qatar meteorological agency says they were gustnadoes, we probably can't get upset at the media for using that term.
Rick Schmidt
EF3
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this: "The current temperature is -15 degrees below zero!" (double negative)
Alvaro ivan
EF0
This is one of those times when the news outlet is wrong, you can see an obvious funnel and likely some connection to the cloud base on these two dust swirlsrdale
EF5
This is the same one you posted above, where the Qatar Meteorological Agency apparently said they were gustnadoes, so not sure what else to say...
Jason N
EF4
One of the worst/best terminologies I ever heard approximately 25years ago, and still sticks in my head today, was from a TV weather anchor out of Baltimore Maryland(WJZTV), where he called a mix of Snow and Rain, "SNAIN". (This was my "Titanic" moment -- "I'll never let go Jack" - - of that terrible, but hilarious description.)
Alvaro ivan
EF0
And also, this is from the January 12th Selma, Alabama tornado. They literally called it as "possible tornado"
Pierre Ducray
EF0
Snain is now kind of mainstream... It sounds cool to me... The wonderful Kingdom of Neologisms... Yes I know Jason, I'm playing devil's advocate...Last edited:
Jason N
EF4
Pierre,
hah, that's ok, I believe I created the word Comfortability and its now in the Urban dictionary. Not everything has to be absolute, you play to your audience as well.
what do you want to bet, in a room filled with two groups, NWS Operational forecasters Vs. AMS certified (News casters) and someone said its "Snaining" outside.. I would guess that half of the room would Facepalm, while the other half would giggle and say, Oh I bet my ratings would go up when I started using colorful descriptions!! lol
Pierre Ducray
EF0
Well, well, well... I guess you are absolutely right, Jason... but the devil is in the details: IMHO "snain" is OK but "snaining" is highly ridiculous! Oh... BTW... two days ago, it was snaining in my area...Pierre,
hah, that's ok, I believe I created the word Comfortability and its now in the Urban dictionary. Not everything has to be absolute, you play to your audience as well.
what do you want to bet, in a room filled with two groups, NWS Operational forecasters Vs. AMS certified (News casters) and someone said its "Snaining" outside.. I would guess that half of the room would Facepalm, while the other half would giggle and say, Oh I bet my ratings would go up when I started using colorful descriptions!! lol
rdale
EF5
Many in the media can be fooled by look-alikes... They'll generally use "possible tornado" until the NWS confirms to be safe. That's good.
Pierre Ducray
EF0
Possible use of the precautionary principle...
Pierre Ducray
EF0
Yahoo! vs. funnels clouds...
Part 1: "The funnel cloud whips up dust." Check here!
Part 2: "An impressive funnel cloud . . . " Really! Enjoy here!
Alvaro ivan
EF0
I hate it when news said that a funnel cloud was spotted when the video shows an obvious tornado on the groundSimilar threads
