madmumbler
(Storm Tracker)
Tue Sep 25 2007 02:29 PM
Re: Bahamas

Quote:

I'm actually curious why they even added in the line "no immediate threat to land"
sort of was obvious, why highlight something so obvious





Because there are a lot of people with no conception as to how big and wide "the pond" is out thar. *LOL* I mean, look at the periodic discussions that happen when they put the, "elsewhere, tropical storm formation is not expected" tag on things and people read into it that it means there absolutely WILL be development because they specified that elsewhere there won't be.

The NHC just has to cover as many bases as they can with the general public.



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