West Coast tsunami watch.

TigerBTM said:
Watching the same channel…woman meteorologist just advised people on Maui to head towards Haleakala…that they would probably be safe if they could get a mile above sea level. Absolutely ridiculous. She’s also been absolutely butchering the names of Hawaiian cities and towns…I mean I understand to some degree but someone needs to be in her ear giving g her the correct pronunciations.
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Is the threat over? It seems not much has really happened. I am glad nothing major happened, but worried that people will think it's a crying wolf scenario next time and that's when something major will happen.
 
Carolina Fever said:
Is the threat over? It seems not much has really happened. I am glad nothing major happened, but worried that people will think it's a crying wolf scenario next time and that's when something major will happen.
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They were saying 1.5 meter or so waves in Hawaii. That would have f'ed people up if they were on the beach. This isn't like a 1.5 meter surface wave.
 
1moretimeagain said:
The meteorologist on Fox Weather Channel just asked the guest tsunami expert if a watch or warning indicates the greater threat.
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To slightly defend the "meteorologist" (which I am guessing is just a weather person), when news people have experts on they will prefer to ask even the most basic questions rather than answering them themselves. This one seems comically basic but 1) the channel probably knows it serves the lowest common denominator being a Fox channel and 2) they are often just trying to fill time.

Even NPR will ask experts the most basic questions that you know the person asking the question knows the answer of. Given, I've never heard them ask an expert something this basic.

Bad interview question for sure but I have no doubt that the person asking the question certainly the answer to it.
 
Tsunamis are such bizarre phenomena. I get the sense we really don't have much of a clue how to forecast them, and some place thousands of miles away can be impacted far more than land just a couple hundred miles away. I get the "cried wolf" concern, but when you see what the tsunamis did in Thailand and Japan, it's hard to blame forecasters for being intentionally overbroad.
 
ChapelHillSooner said:
To slightly defend the "meteorologist" (which I am guessing is just a weather person), when news people have experts on they will prefer to ask even the most basic questions rather than answering them themselves. This one seems comically basic but 1) the channel probably knows it serves the lowest common denominator being a Fox channel and 2) they are often just trying to fill time.

Even NPR will ask experts the most basic questions that you know the person asking the question knows the answer of. Given, I've never heard them ask an expert something this basic.

Bad interview question for sure but I have no doubt that the person asking the question certainly the answer to it.
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I understand asking a question on behalf of the viewer and perhaps that’s what he was doing, but honestly he looked uncertain about it himself.
 
lawtig02 said:
Tsunamis are such bizarre phenomena. I get the sense we really don't have much of a clue how to forecast them, and some place thousands of miles away can be impacted far more than land just a couple hundred miles away. I get the "cried wolf" concern, but when you see what the tsunamis did in Thailand and Japan, it's hard to blame forecasters for being intentionally overbroad.
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Yeah the worst case scenarios are pretty extreme, so, better safe than sorry. And officials need to cover their ass.

But living in coastal areas I’ve learned that tsunami warnings usually mean surf’s up and that’s about it. Sometimes not even that.
 
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