Assessing the Dallas Cowboys’ 2005 Draft
Chris Canty, the 6-7 end from Virginia, is a very intriguing wild card here — someone who reminds me a lot of Leon Lett, but hopefully without Leon’s isolated but spectacular episodes of brainlock. Before last college season, Canty was rated a potential first round pick.
Read more →Systematic Private Sector Forecast Verification?
These guys have been whining for years that NWS needs to stop trying to compete with them. Even if one accepts the dubious and unproven idea that it’s true, then the cease-fire still needs to work both ways! In principle, if the private weather executives in Wichita and State College don’t want NWS trying to compete with them, then the kettle should also stop calling the pot black by propagating “We beat the Hurricane Center” type propaganda. It’s classic hypocrisy…do as we say, not as we do.
Read more →Senate Attempt to Cripple the National Weather Service
You may get no public weather forecasts, no severe weather or tropical outlooks, no fire weather forecasts. You may get nothing but watches and warnings, and perhaps not even those — if packaged in any “value added” way, such as graphics on the web. Any and all web pages from your National Weather Service could be interpreted as value added and, therefore, killed.
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