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WHY EARLIER WARNINGS: In the past, people often have had only minutes of warning when a siren went off. But improvements in storm modeling and technology let forecasters predict storms earlier and with greater confidence, the National Weather Service says. The Storm Prediction Center is part of the service.
NEW WARNING LANGUAGE: The weather service is now testing words such as "mass devastation," ''unsurvivable" and "catastrophic" aimed at getting more people to take heed. The warnings are being experimented with in Kansas and Missouri. The "life-threatening" warning for this round of storms, despite the dire language, was not part of that effort but just the most accurate way to describe what was expected, a weather service spokeswoman said.
I'm not so sure ''unsurvivable" should be part of the language.
People even survive a direct hit from tsunami.
plus When I was younger ''unsurvivable" would have been a dare that would be hard to resist.
Plus once the word gets out how many actually survived a ''unsurvivable" storm.
it will cheapin the weathercasters predictions even more.
Republican Herald | News | republicanherald.com
NEW WARNING LANGUAGE: The weather service is now testing words such as "mass devastation," ''unsurvivable" and "catastrophic" aimed at getting more people to take heed. The warnings are being experimented with in Kansas and Missouri. The "life-threatening" warning for this round of storms, despite the dire language, was not part of that effort but just the most accurate way to describe what was expected, a weather service spokeswoman said.
I'm not so sure ''unsurvivable" should be part of the language.
People even survive a direct hit from tsunami.
plus When I was younger ''unsurvivable" would have been a dare that would be hard to resist.
Plus once the word gets out how many actually survived a ''unsurvivable" storm.
it will cheapin the weathercasters predictions even more.
Republican Herald | News | republicanherald.com
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