Thursday, January 16, 2020

Talk About 'Fake News' & 'Click Bait'

I've had a couple say to me, "Oh my god! There's a massive storm about to hit you guys! I saw it on TV and read about it...."

Yeah? There's a "massive storm" that's gonna hit Atlantic Canada, 130km/hr winds, 70cm of snow, power will be lost, babies will be swept away in the wind ANNNNNND Fredericton doesn't even have a weather warning, not even a 'special weather statement'...

One goes to the 'Weather Networks' site for Fredericton and it's awash with warnings and bold headlines of fear and loathing of this incoming storm of storms! But again, nowhere is there even mention of anything happening for Fredericton, I mean, I know they are generalizing 'Atlantic Canada'.. But c'mon.. This storm is really going to hit Newfoundland hard and I'm sure PEI and coastal Nova Scotia will be impacted as well. But the way they 'throw' this stuff at the reader, if you're not willing to look at little further, you'd be thinking like that Jar Jar Binks, "Meesa peoples gunna die>?"....
Saint John doesn't have any weather warnings.... Moncton neither... Edmunston, which is nowhere near where this wallop of a storm is destined to smote, has a weather warning BUTm it's for extreme cold... which is what Fredericton really should have up for a warning, it's said to go down to near -25C by tomorrow, with a high tomorrow afternoon of only -14... When it's below -10, I don't go anywhere, it might as well be a major snowstorm.

I know a lot of you don't trust weather as it is, let alone to be led to believe that the greatest storm to ever hit the planet is coming at you.

Like with all information coming at us, ALL of it should be vetted by YOU, yourself. Check multiple sources and this goes into checking multiple weather websites. Even IF they are collating their data from a lot of the same resources they all report sometimes very differently, but when you look at a group of these weather websites and do some checking out of satellite radar images, you, yourself can get a better picture of what's going to happen in the next 24/48 hours.

These are sites I use:
The Weather Network: https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/weather/new-brunswick/fredericton

Environment Canada: https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/nb-29_metric_e.html?unit=imperial

Windy: https://www.windy.com/

Enjoy the storms!! 

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