I agree with that, for the most part. They did predict the path of the storm quite accurately. But they made two mistakes on purpose to, IMO, help their own agenda — to boost tv ratings,
One, they predicted that the eye would hit land on Wednesday evening, it didn’t get there until 7am this morning, Friday. And two, they predicted that it would be a cat four at that time, it was “only” a one, which is a big difference. A category four has speeds of 130–156 mph; a category one 74–95 mph.
They did the first so people would tune in earlier, and the second to embellish the situation, which makes it more news worthy.
They had a weatherman in Philadelphia who got railroaded out of town because he would continually predict snowfalls , that the other networks didn’t — and never happened. He reasons were obvious. Snowstorms mean big tv ratings for the networks.
I notice that the weather channel has two dozen meteorologists working on this storm, most of them on site. It would be a damn shame if they all got swept out to sea.
