Originally published at: Chief meteorologists fired after incorrect forecast results in unnecessary fireworks cancellation | Boing Boing
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Wow, this takes me back to the forecasted Snowmageddon in Philly that never happened. The meteorologist involved, John Bolaris, had that incident follow him for years!
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No matter how experienced you are as a meteorologist, you’re still going to be wrong about 1/5 of the time.
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Given Hungary’s political challenges against an authoritarian I wonder if this forecast was a form of resistance.
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Of course, if they had been right they would have been burned for witchcraft. You really can’t win.
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Hmm - should they cancel or ban?
(I’ll wait while you see what I did there.)
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I remember that. Same storm was predicted to hit Baltimore with snow all day, and we woke up to sunny skies. It was a massive miss on a weather call.
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Could have been worse. He could have told people there was no storm, then 18 people died.
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