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This title and the weather report make me wish people with factual jobs would stick to the facts. It's really not a good sign when factual government projectio

by w10-1 4y ago

This title and the weather report make me wish people with factual jobs would stick to the facts. It's really not a good sign when factual government projections start getting jazzed up with personal history. All things considered, this storm is well within the design considerations for any road or building in California, so it shouldn't be considered, in advance, as catastrophic. Is there no where to avoid relentless self-absorbed posturing?

waiseristy 4y ago
These reports very often have glib personal touches. There are websites with collections of funny forecast discussions over the years. God forbid someone breaks the monotony on reporting the fuckin weather. I’d rather watch paint dry
braingenious 4y ago
> Is there no where to avoid relentless self-absorbed posturing? “People unironically expressing their anger that other people don’t write like robotic zen monks” is one of my favorite genres of posts.
yamtaddle 4y ago
Disagree. NOAA weather reports are basically perfect. You know shit's getting real when the report isn't boring to read. They do a great job of putting little personal touches on them, without letting it get out of hand or get in the way of providing information—which is precisely what professional writing ought to look like, in many cases. This makes them far more useful to a layperson than a bland recitation of facts would be, since it provides context that might otherwise be absent or harder for a non-expert to appreciate. When it comes time for actual warnings they keep them to-the-point but also don't pull punches or dance around the seriousness of their assessments—nor do they hype them without cause, generally. I've wondered for a while how NOAA reports are allowed to be so good when you'd think the march of bureaucracy and bureaucracy-fans and liability/anti-responsibility pants-wetters taking the humanity and personality (except wholly fake and brand-conscious "personality") out of everything would have gotten to them by now. Please don't encourage that :-(
baq 4y ago
Revisit this comment Friday. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple_Express https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple_Express
dendrite9 4y ago
Try https://graphical.weather.gov/xml/rest.php https://graphical.weather.gov/xml/rest.php Or maybe https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/pqpf/conus_hpc_pqpf.php https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/pqpf/conus_hpc_pqpf.php Maybe one of those links has sufficiently less self-abosrbed posturing for your uses?

by w10-1 4y ago

waiseristy 4y ago

These reports very often have glib personal touches. There are websites with collections of funny forecast discussions over the years. God forbid someone breaks the monotony on reporting the fuckin weather. I’d rather watch paint dry

braingenious 4y ago

> Is there no where to avoid relentless self-absorbed posturing? “People unironically expressing their anger that other people don’t write like robotic zen monks” is one of my favorite genres of posts.

yamtaddle 4y ago

Disagree. NOAA weather reports are basically perfect. You know shit's getting real when the report isn't boring to read. They do a great job of putting little personal touches on them, without letting it get out of hand or get in the way of providing information—which is precisely what professional writing ought to look like, in many cases. This makes them far more useful to a layperson than a bland recitation of facts would be, since it provides context that might otherwise be absent or harder for a non-expert to appreciate. When it comes time for actual warnings they keep them to-the-point but also don't pull punches or dance around the seriousness of their assessments—nor do they hype them without cause, generally. I've wondered for a while how NOAA reports are allowed to be so good when you'd think the march of bureaucracy and bureaucracy-fans and liability/anti-responsibility pants-wetters taking the humanity and personality (except wholly fake and brand-conscious "personality") out of everything would have gotten to them by now. Please don't encourage that :-(

baq 4y ago

Revisit this comment Friday. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple_Express https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple_Express

dendrite9 4y ago

Try https://graphical.weather.gov/xml/rest.php https://graphical.weather.gov/xml/rest.php Or maybe https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/pqpf/conus_hpc_pqpf.php https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/pqpf/conus_hpc_pqpf.php Maybe one of those links has sufficiently less self-abosrbed posturing for your uses?