Trump may have broken federal law by altering Hurricane Dorian's path on a map. Post #30605 • Liberal Forum

Lucifershammer » 04 Sep 2019 6:39 pm » wrote:You're being willfully obtuse

No, I understand perfectly what happened.
You don't seem to.

Trump used a spaghetti plot to explain why he falsely said Hurricane Dorian would hit Alabama.

Those charts shouldn't be read as forecasts.

Hurricane Dorian hovered over the Bahamas this weekend, wreaking havoc and killing at least 20 people before it approached the US southeast coast.

As of Wednesday evening, the storm was moving north near the Georgia coast and approaching the Carolinas, where forecasters expect it to bring hurricane conditions on Thursday and Friday.

On Sunday (Sept. 1st) as the storm was approaching the Bahamas, President Donald Trump warned on Twitter that Dorian could hit Alabama.

The National Weather Service, however, said unambiguously that Alabama was not in the storm's path.

During a 50-second live Twitter update about the hurricane on Wednesday (Sept. 4th), Trump presented an old map of Hurricane Dorian's predicted trajectory, which appeared to have been altered to show the storm heading towards Alabama.

Just a few hours later, Trump tweeted an image of a spaghetti plot from August 28, saying, "This was the originally projected path of the Hurricane in its early stages.

As you can see, almost all models predicted it to go through Florida also hitting Georgia and Alabama."

However, spaghetti plots do not show meteorological predictions of a storm's path.

They also do not reflect wind speeds, the factor that determines whether a storm is a tropical storm or a hurricane (and its category on the Saffir-Simpson scale).

https://www.businessinsider.com/hurrica ... ida-2019-8

This is all about Trump never being able to admit that he was wrong about anything.
No one was predicting when he Tweeted it on Sept.1st that Alabama was in Dorian's path.

In fact the national weather service corrected him on Twitter shortly after he Tweeted it.

And yet 3 days later he is still trying to make it look like Alabama was in danger of getting hit by Dorian.