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Where's the president's day snow??

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ShawtyBlack_ATL

All stations had computer models showing snowfall for today. NWS even had Atlanta under Winter Weather Advicsory and North Georgia under Winter Storm Warning. Wow, all this and nothing but rain. Should I depend on Ken? If I wanna know when should I tune to Glenn? Does Paul really know all? Even Dagmar doen't know whats gonna happen tomorr'aw. Im trying to think which station went too far and blew it.
 
Brad Nitz at WSBTV blew it!! He was all excited and using his hand gestures on all of their Sunday morning newscasts talking up a storm about Atlanta getting 1-2 inches of snow. My wife who is a school teacher was all excited about having today off for a snow day. She was pissed this morning!! BLEW IT!!
 
The NWS website forecast discussion had a comment that they were going to run one more model before actually declaring the north metro Atlanta counties in the warning area. After the model was ran around 3 pm, they upgraded those counties to winter storm warning status. They rely on those models which for the most part is pretty accurate. What I think surprised everyone is that a weak southerly wind/front moved north during the late evening causing the temps to not drop like expected. Unfortunately, the models did not predict this. That is what made everyone have egg on their face.

It was interesting last week that they missed how much snow north Atlanta Counties got. Those counties got 3 inches when it was predicted to be dusting to 1/2 inch.

The bottom line is if you can predict the weather accurately, you are smarter than most people. But, I agree that most of these weathercasters blow things out of proportion. They should have simply reported that there was a potential for winter precip and left it at that. We all know how to prepare appropriately. We don't need the media to tell us when the first snow flake will fall. I was shocked when WSB said on Friday AM that they will show us the first snow when it falls.
 
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