Please be cautious when discussing the storm
Posted by
Chris in Tampa on 9/6/2017, 12:57 pm
The National Hurricane Center has the winds at 185mph as of 12pm AST Wednesday. While it is certainly appropriate to discuss how mountains and other factors, such as wind shear, might impact the storm, including weakening it, please be cautious in how you talk about it. This remains a potentially catastrophic storm. Saying "Irma is being torn apart" (poster also asked if it could be mountains) or "the whole side of the storm is being sheared off good news", even while saying "looks like", which this poster did in both instances, is not being cautious enough in my personal opinion. I don't have time to consult Jim on this, so I'm making an editorial decision to remove those posts given the fact that a lot of people are seeing these posts in a short amount of time.
I don't want to discourage discussion, but please avoid statements quite like that.
Suggestions if you did want to say something like that:
"Are mountains impacting Irma right now? I don't think it looks as healthy as it did earlier."
"One side of the storm looks like it's being sheared"
Maybe you don't have to be that cautious, but I don't want people to think the storm is falling apart. It's not. We need to avoid giving people that impression. |
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Please be cautious when discussing the storm - Chris in Tampa, 9/6/2017, 12:57 pm
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