Snow Warning
"Dave Ludlow" wrote in message
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On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 04:03:25 -0800 (PST), willie eckerslike
wrote:
On Saturday, January 12, 2013 11:05:54 AM UTC, John Hall wrote:
In article ,
But wet roads and pavements freezing can create very dangerous
conditions. A frost after a dry day isn't much of a problem, but a frost
following a wet one is.
I know this, you know this - and I suspect that many millions of other
people know this.
Is it necessary to have blanket warnings for half the country, just to
tell people what they know? Just so that the media can have a "field day"
exaggerating everything to extremes?
Sorry, I know that I am being a kind of Devils Advocate here, but do not
the proliferation of ordinary warnings reduce the impact of severe
warnings?
Half the problem is that the yellow awareness 'warnings' aren't really
warnings at all, they are just "keep an eye on tomorrow's forecast"
bulletins. They should call them something less dramatic than warnings
IMO, to lessen the "cry wolf" syndrome.
I agree. Alerts would be better. But hey, I said so at the time they were
being re-vamped but the powers that be go their own merry way usually :-(
They justify it by saying that they have "stakeholder agreement", whatever
that really means!
Will
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