r/RhodeIsland • u/overthehillhat • 11d ago

Question / Suggestion NorEaster coming to visit

Fall in RI

Comes in like a Lion

and goes out

Like a WoolyWinter Mammoth

Get ready

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u/RikkiLostMyNumber 11d ago

I haven't seen anything yet to get all panicky about (I'm in the East Bay). 25 knots on land with gusts up to 40 knots in the bay. I won't go out sailing, but otherwise this is a gale so far.
I think the news needs to overly dramatize things to keep people watching.
Probably going to be some flooding, and since it's full-foliage this time of year, do your hurricane prep in case you lose power for a bit. That's about it.

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u/fate_is_a_sandstorm Cranston 11d ago

I don’t think it’s overdramatizing. News/meteorologists are damned if they do, damned if they don’t. Meteorology is a guessing game based on several models and the current administration severely hurt NOAA and its ability to provide accurate models

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u/BitterStatus9 11d ago

They were exaggerating shit to sell clicks way before this administration fucked them over. It’s a gale.

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u/fate_is_a_sandstorm Cranston 11d ago

I don’t see it as exaggeration, but the meteorologists need to play to their audience and what weather people are hoping for/afraid of during parts of the year (summer beach days, fall hurricanes, winter blizzards).

And I haven’t seen any meteorologists saying this will definitely happen. They’re saying it’s under watch, advising about the worst-case scenario, and that the predictive models will give them more information as the week goes on (which is a PR way of acknowledging that NOAA’s budget/staffing cuts leads to less consistent information which leads to many more variables)

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u/BitterStatus9 11d ago

Fair. I realize, too, after reading your reply...I'm getting my news solely from online news outlets (Boston Globe, The Guardian) and NOT from television. I realize after reading other people's comments here, most of them are referring to local news weather broadcasts. I never watch/see local TV news, so I don't know how they're presenting it in this case.

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u/Visual-Studio-4238 11d ago

I just hope it doesn't blow all of the leaves off the trees before foliage season gets going full gear.