“The CSU team saw a 75 percent probability of a major hurricane making landfall along the U.S. coastline.”
The U.S. coastline is kinda long, could you please be just a little more specific?
It’s no wonder the forcasters are wrong all the time, take WSI for example and tell me what qualifies most of their top management team to predict anything other than their big bonus from the insurance industry?
Weather Services International (WSI)check out their management team:
Still waiting for the investigative reporting by Insurance Journal digging deep into the economic impact these dire predictions have on individual finances, our national and the global economy.
Another baseless excuse to raise prices. Note to Insurance Journal, how about an article well the hurricane forecasters have done over the past 20 years?!
Seriously let’s see some hard data on how often the hurricane forecasters have been right…
You nailed it with your post Jane. Just an excuse for Goldman Sucks to artificially pump up the oil markets so they can profit from contracts they never plan to take delivery on. Speculation/Market manipulation at its finest.
After reading your post, I did a quick search to see just how accurate the reports have been. Here’s what I found:
“A review of nearly a decade of pre-season predictions of hurricane season shows the two major predicting institutions are right about half the time. In some categories, they fail even more frequently.”
My latest in a long list of get rich schemes is to get a monkey, put a raincoat on him and let him predict the weather. I would be willing to bet you a hole in a doughnut that my monkey can do a better job that Dr. Gray or Colorado University.
The media and the prognosticators over hype everything…it’s all about $$$ these days. It’s a joke that Bonnie and Colin even count towards their estimates. Both of those storms were prematurely named and duds. Must be nice to be able to revise your estimates every month.
Hurricane forecasters have hit 2 of the last 5 year forecasts.
Didn’t come close in 2005.
Overestimated in 2006.
Came close with guessetimates in 07 and 08.
Again overestimated in 09.
Batting 40% going into 2010 where it better start heating up quick or they’re down to 30%.
Not even as good a Pete the world cup predicting octopus. I think since Pete comes from a sea bed environment that he should have the final say. He should also get all the grant money paid to the CSU professorial staff.
Poppycock!
Jim’s weather monkey and Tom’s pal Pete would be miserable failures compared to following my scheduled visits to Florida each year. Being a glutton for punishment, I will be in the Gulf on September 4th and therefore there will be a Cat 17 Cane ready to blow us back to Georgia.
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“The CSU team saw a 75 percent probability of a major hurricane making landfall along the U.S. coastline.”
The U.S. coastline is kinda long, could you please be just a little more specific?
It’s no wonder the forcasters are wrong all the time, take WSI for example and tell me what qualifies most of their top management team to predict anything other than their big bonus from the insurance industry?
Weather Services International (WSI)check out their management team:
http://www.wsi.com/about-us-management.htm
Still waiting for the investigative reporting by Insurance Journal digging deep into the economic impact these dire predictions have on individual finances, our national and the global economy.
There’s a 100% chance these forecasters know nothing about what they’re talking about. Last year was to be above normal as well…
Another baseless excuse to raise prices. Note to Insurance Journal, how about an article well the hurricane forecasters have done over the past 20 years?!
Seriously let’s see some hard data on how often the hurricane forecasters have been right…
You nailed it with your post Jane. Just an excuse for Goldman Sucks to artificially pump up the oil markets so they can profit from contracts they never plan to take delivery on. Speculation/Market manipulation at its finest.
After reading your post, I did a quick search to see just how accurate the reports have been. Here’s what I found:
“A review of nearly a decade of pre-season predictions of hurricane season shows the two major predicting institutions are right about half the time. In some categories, they fail even more frequently.”
My latest in a long list of get rich schemes is to get a monkey, put a raincoat on him and let him predict the weather. I would be willing to bet you a hole in a doughnut that my monkey can do a better job that Dr. Gray or Colorado University.
The media and the prognosticators over hype everything…it’s all about $$$ these days. It’s a joke that Bonnie and Colin even count towards their estimates. Both of those storms were prematurely named and duds. Must be nice to be able to revise your estimates every month.
Hurricane forecasters have hit 2 of the last 5 year forecasts.
Didn’t come close in 2005.
Overestimated in 2006.
Came close with guessetimates in 07 and 08.
Again overestimated in 09.
Batting 40% going into 2010 where it better start heating up quick or they’re down to 30%.
Not even as good a Pete the world cup predicting octopus. I think since Pete comes from a sea bed environment that he should have the final say. He should also get all the grant money paid to the CSU professorial staff.
I’m leaning toward the weather monkey.
Poppycock!
Jim’s weather monkey and Tom’s pal Pete would be miserable failures compared to following my scheduled visits to Florida each year. Being a glutton for punishment, I will be in the Gulf on September 4th and therefore there will be a Cat 17 Cane ready to blow us back to Georgia.