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February 14-15th severe WX

Clancy said:
Wow, glad they didn't cry wolf on that QLCS, huh?
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Brad Arnold being Brad Arnold, as usual. I rarely call out chasers for dumb stuff (aside from Castor, Timmer and Hall) but I'm glad he got called out for that.
 
James Spann mentioned in this week’s Weatherbrains pre-show that he had pastors contacting him on whether they needed to cancel services for Sunday morning even though there was no risk of severe storms in central Alabama last Sunday. That was due to these social media creators scaring people about a huge outbreak on the 14th/15th for clicks, which translates to making money.
 
akt1985 said:
James Spann mentioned in this week’s Weatherbrains pre-show that he had pastors contacting him on whether they needed to cancel services for Sunday morning even though there was no risk of severe storms in central Alabama last Sunday. That was due to these social media creators scaring people about a huge outbreak on the 14th/15th for clicks, which translates to making money.
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This is the problem. Hype from people who spend their time on Facebook or ANY platform making so called reliable weather information on accs called "Michael's Alabama Weather Page" and they see a signal from one single deterministic on the GFS/Euro run.

It almost always goes like this

"WOAH! What's this signal showing up for Alabama next week on the Euro? It shows quite the intense storm system and if it were to verify, it would be something. Will this happen? Probably not."

That isn't exactly reliable info to me, it's just showing people a heavily bullish deterministic run but these people aren't going to care about the wording. They see what appears like bright colours of Supercell Composite or a crazy low pressure and think "OH, well I guess we need to cancel things!"

Half of these weather pages realistically throw out 220 hr model runs and just speculate and good over whether it's to happen instead of realising what showing it on a platform like Facebook will mean.

What about people with storm anxiety? They see a post like that and their minds are off to the races. There's no genuine thought or consideration about what sharing a "harmless model run" means. One person sees it and misinformation can spread like crazy. There's too much of this hype and throwing around nowadays. It won't stop though unfortunately and that's the truth
 
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