Surely someone has noticed two things about the weather and the weather offices lately.
1. As this story notes, people are not happy in Goose Bay at getting their forecasts from Gander. Lack of timeliness, accuracy and similar matters are at issue.
2. To the legion of pork-chasers who pretended that returning the weather office to Gander was about public safety and accuracy in forecasting and not about stick noses into public troughs, did any of you notice the gross inaccuracy of last Monday's forecast in St. John's?
5 cm of snow morphed into 13.8.
Wow, they must have hired the provincial government deficit/surplus forecasters to do weather in their spare time.
Oh and while we are at it, has anyone who reported on the Great Pork Chasing Caper bothered to ask where marine forecasting is done for the Newfoundland and Labrador region?
And aviation?
Yes, it was all about public safety.
In a pig's eye.
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