The report found that both Neil Jacobs, the acting NOAA administrator, and Julie Kay Roberts, the former NOAA deputy chief of staff and communications director, twice violated codes of the agency’s scientific integrity policy amid their involvement in the NOAA statement. Sobien said that he was concerned that he had never seen NOAA “undermine” its own forecasters, who are tasked with making life-or-death decisions. Embarrassing.
It pits the media as oppositional by looping criticism of his initial inaccuracy and his flawed defenses as attacks on him and, by extension, on his supporters. The question begs: will Hurricane Dorian hit Alabama? It is also an example of Trump’s unwavering unwillingness to admit mistakes, a central component of his personal survival strategy.”The White House released a statement from Rear Adm. Peter Brown, Trump’s homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, defending the President’s initial statement.“The President’s comments were based on that morning’s Hurricane Dorian briefing, which included the possibility of tropical storm force winds in southeastern Alabama,” the statement read That day, Trump criticized the news media for reporting on his statements about the storm“In the early days of the hurricane, when it was predicted that Dorian would go through Miami or West Palm Beach, even before it reached the Bahamas, certain models strongly suggested that Alabama & Georgia would be hit as it made its way through Florida & to the Gulf,” Trump wrote on Twitter. U.S. In the path it took, no.
On September 4, he showed reporters a weather map which had been altered with a Multiple agencies have investigated the possibility that political influence may have been exerted over NOAA and in June and July 2020 two reports had been completed. They went Crazy, hoping against hope that I made a mistake (which I didn’t). That’s why they’re the Fake News!”Later that day, Trump tweeted NOAA maps from last Thursday and Friday. Sign up to receive the top stories you need to know now on politics, health and more Already category 5. All Rights Reserved. Where is Hurricane Dorian right now? Over the following week, Trump repeatedly insisted his comment had been correct. The president posted, “In addition to Florida - South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated.
As Dorian approached, Mr. Trump switched into town-crier mode, updating the public on what he had learned — or, what he thought he’d learned — from government officials as Dorian threatened the coast of the state of Florida, where he has owned property for decades,” Rogers wrote.Trump criticized journalists on Twitter for their reporting on his statement about Alabama.“Such a phony hurricane report by lightweight reporter Three days after his initial tweet, in a meeting in the Oval Office, Trump displayed a NOAA forecast map to demonstrate that Alabama was originally believed to have been threatened by Hurricane Dorian. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our One of the maps identified that parts of Alabama had a 5 to 20% chance of receiving 39 mph winds; the other map said parts of Alabama had a 5 to 30% chance of 39 mph winds.He also retweeted an Aug. 30 tweet from The Alabama National Guard, which said that the hurricane was “projected to reach southern Alabama by the early part of the week.”The Guard’s account had then corrected that tweet the day after saying the forecast showed “On Friday, the President tweeted that the news media was “fixated” on what Trump had said about the storm.“The Fake News Media was fixated on the fact that I properly said, at the beginnings of Hurricane Dorian, that in addition to Florida & other states, Alabama may also be grazed or hit. GOD BLESS EVERYONE! So far (as of July 2020) 77 tropical and subtropical cyclones have affected Alabama since HURDAT began in 1851. All Fake News in order to demean!”In another tweet, the President again criticized the media for reporting on his focus on Alabama.“Alabama was going to be hit or grazed, and then Hurricane Dorian took a different path (up along the East Coast). To get a sense of why NOAA decided to publish this statement, TIME traced this developing story from the day of the President’s first tweet.On Sunday morning, the President tweeted that Alabama and other states will be “hit (much) harder than anticipated.”The Birmingham NWS appeared to respond to the President 20 minutes later, tweeting that the hurricane will be “too far east” to impact Alabama.That morning, Trump also repeated his claim that Alabama would be affected by the storm, According to the Associated Press, the National Hurricane Center was reporting at this time that parts of Alabama only had a 5% to 10% chance of getting tropical storm level winds.“With his reality-show approach to the presidency, Mr. Trump has a habit of weighing in on the day’s most-covered news stories with his own running commentary. Heartbreaking.”Dan Sobien, the head of the labor union National Weather Service Employees Organization, which encompasses NWS, hurricane hunters and hurricane researchers, tells TIME that he’s seen on social media that many NWS employees feel “demoralized” by NOAA’s statement. Looking like one of the largest hurricanes ever. Check out maps…..”He also tweeted an undated video clip that showed that CNN had acknowledged that the storm would hit Alabama.Reporters from various outlets commented on the President’s determination to prove himself right. If it is the former, the statement shows a lack of understanding of how to use probabilistic forecasts in conjunction with other forecast information.
An Alabama hurricane is a North Atlantic tropical cyclone that affected the U.S. state of Alabama.