Krauthammer: DNC Has Known Thursday’s Weather For ‘Months’ (VIDEO)
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Fox News is fucking retarded. They, especially Krauthammer, have a fundamentally wrong view about the weather. Let us not focus on the attendance, because they are wrong; the stadium was to be filled to capacity, even overflowing, and many voters felt bummed that they couldn't see Obama in person. And I won't elaborate further in saying it is impossible to diagnose exactly what will happen months in advance on a specific time and date in a specific location.
Showers and thunderstorms were forecast for the area of Charlotte and surrounding areas in the state and South Carolina during the day, and into the evening. It is true that the percentage of chance for rain was small, in the 30% range, but when and where storms will hit is highly variable, and chaotic. At a point, even in a severe weather event being forecast, it has 0% probability of severe weather happening. In the area of the point, is a totally different animal. I was tracking the radar in the late afternoon to evening, up to Obama's speech, and all throughout NC and SC there were numerous clusters of thunderstorms. Most of them dissipated by the time Obama spoke, but one or two isolated showers remained at the time. Based on this analysis alone, Charlotte had the potential to experience a thunderstorm, and the Democrats made the right call to move indoors for the event.
It is my personal non-meteorological opinion that the Republicans were rooting for a storm to hit Charlotte Thursday night. Say the Democrats didn't cancel the outdoors venue, and it did storm. The Republicans would have a field day if that happened, saying that the Democrats didn't care about the safety or well-being of their supporters, and laughing about the pandemonium of the stadium when emergency evacuation procedures are put in place. And imagine if a little girl gets struck by lightning, the scandal would surely sink the Democratic party for a very very long time.
And lest we ignore the fact that the Republicans cancelled the first day of their convention because of a tropical cyclone tens to hundreds of miles away days earlier than when it was originally supposed to arrive. And it totally missed the western Florida coast and made landfall in the New Orleans vicinity. And let us not forget that Limbaugh accused the Obama administration of forcing the National Hurricane Center to fabricate the trajectory of the storm in hopes the RNC would be cancelled.
Rant over. Blatant ignorance of basic principles of the weather pisses me off.