"There was a long time to make adjustments for any type of snow removal" in Atlanta, told NBC the Roker.
By M. Alex Johnson, writer, NBC NewsFlat feet under fire from Georgia officials caught in the winter storm that hit the South this week, meteorologists are crazy ray and I want to know: will not tolerate.
Georgia officials with the capital city, Atlanta, paralyzed by less than 3 inches of snow, complained that he warned not what was on the way on Tuesday:
"We have bumped into an unexpected storm that struck the metropolitan area", said the Governor of Georgia Nathan Deal on Tuesday night.On Wednesday, said, "no one in this room could have predicted the extent and the magnitude of the problem that developed."Later Wednesday, he said: "if we close the city of Atlanta and our Interstate system based on"maybe", then be a very productive Government or a city. We can do based on the answers."Asked why the city display not sanders and plows until eight hours after the national weather service issued a winter storm warning early Tuesday, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed called such criticisms "Monday morning quarterbacking."The national weather service not to comment, but other experts were quick to jump to his defense.
"Bad, bad, bad and bad," said Marshall Shepherd, President of the American Meteorological Society, from critics who argued that the weather service failed in its forecasts.
In a post on a blog created on Wednesday specifically to defend the performance of services forecast this week, pastor said that the weather service issued watches and warnings before the storm arrived, providing time to spare for Georgia officials to make the right decisions.
"However, as soon as I saw what took place with children are trapped in schools, 6 + hour commutes and other horror stories, knew that it was going to go, I knew it." "Some in the medial position or public decision making, social would be 'blame' meteorologists," shepherd wrote in a post titled "One open thanks to meteorologists in Atlanta".
Meteorologist for NBC News to the Roker agreed.
"The Mayor and the Governor was yesterday on TV and they said that this was not intended, and that is not true" Roker said on Wednesday.
Roker and other meteorologists pointed out that the weather service issued its warning for metro Atlanta 3:38 Tuesday - Roker, means "that they were warned of this, and they should have been prepared for this," said. "It's a shame. It really is".
Scroll through the weather service reports the last days revealed that analysts were sounding the alarm of possible "widespread ice accumulation" across the South as soon as Saturday - "expanding in the southeast of the United States Tuesday to Wednesday 's":
National Weather ServiceThat is exactly what happened.
On Monday, a day before the fall the first snowflake, the Meteorological Service warned of possible heavy snow and snow on the other side of the North Georgia:
National Weather ServiceThat it is also exactly what happened.
03: 22 Pm on Monday, the weather service issued a notice that specifically had a potential "of" 2 inches of snow, and up to a half inch of meltwater from Atlanta to Athens.
Once again: what exactly happened.
"It absolutely breaks the heart," said Jim Cantore, a meteorologist for The Weather Channel.
"There are certainly possibilities that you take with this inexact science predict a winter storm warning," said Cantore Wednesday. But this time, "the national weather service was absolutely spot-on with this".
"It's just an absolute excuse," he said, saying the officials of Georgia:
"Admit that you are wrong. Admit that you took the opportunity to save some money and cagaste it. You cagaste it. And now, the people are suffering, unfortunately, in the city of Atlanta.
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