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Margie
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Re: A dark day in meteorology...
Thu May 25 2006 02:51 PM

This was posted as a comment on Jeff Master's Wunderground blog:

"FSU Meteorology has received a memorandum from the administration requiring us to take actions which seem to us to restrict our ability to continue to offer real-time weather forecasts (even clearly identified experimental models) of any kind to the general public. Until we obtain further clarification, in the interest of due caution, these pages have been withdrawn from the web until further notice. That is basically all we can say about it right now.

Paul Ruscher / Meteorology"

I called and did get direct information from the FSU Meteorology Dept.

This is the text of the memo that was sent by the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President of the university to the Met. Dept. This should be helpful in framing feedback.

"With the advent of the 2006 hurricane season and the continuing expectation that serious storms will affect the coastal US, let me remind you that Florida State University's Meteorology Department is not in the business of providing real-time hurricane forecasts for public consumption. The National Hurricane Center in Miami is the official agency charged with providing hurricane forecasts to the public. It could cause serious confusion and significant legal issues for any person or entity to provide forecasting information that is in conflict with the NHC."

The way this is worded, I feel there is clearly more behind the scenes than is said. There was probably more specific information that was not made available to the general public.

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I have found out what is going on and I was very much reassured. I can tell you that the university is probably going to provide a more detailed statement on what is going on, shortly. I think this will be helpful in stemming paranoia that this is the first step of an overall trend to restrict weather information. That is really not the case. So don't worry. It will just take some time to straighten things out. Also, feedback will not be required at this point and will not help the situation.

Edited by Margie (Thu May 25 2006 04:41 PM)

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FSU product discussion	Clark	Thu May 25 2006 02:51 PM
Re: FSU product discussion	GuppieGrouper	Fri Jun 09 2006 07:46 AM
Re: FSU product discussion	Hootowl	Fri Jun 16 2006 11:28 AM
Re: FSU product discussion	Margie	Fri Jun 16 2006 11:45 AM
Re: FSU product discussion	madmumbler	Fri May 26 2006 03:46 PM
Re: FSU product discussion	Random Chaos	Fri May 26 2006 06:08 PM
Re: FSU product discussion	madmumbler	Sat May 27 2006 09:25 AM
Re: FSU product discussion	GuppieGrouper	Fri May 26 2006 06:40 PM
Re: FSU product discussion	madmumbler	Sat May 27 2006 09:35 AM
Re: FSU product discussion	Clark	Sat May 27 2006 03:37 PM
Re: FSU product discussion	madmumbler	Thu Jun 08 2006 07:22 AM
Re: FSU product discussion	Margie	Sun Jun 04 2006 02:10 PM
Re: FSU product discussion	GuppieGrouper	Sun Jun 04 2006 04:08 PM
Re: FSU product discussion	Clark	Sun Jun 04 2006 05:53 PM
Re: FSU product discussion	CaneTrackerInSoFl	Sun Jun 04 2006 04:27 PM
Re: FSU product discussion	madmumbler	Sat May 27 2006 09:27 AM
Re: FSU product discussion	Hootowl	Fri May 26 2006 12:10 PM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	RedingtonBeachGuy	Thu May 25 2006 08:10 PM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	wereallgonnadie	Thu May 25 2006 10:34 PM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	Random Chaos	Thu May 25 2006 10:51 PM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	winterwx	Thu May 25 2006 11:53 PM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	firestar_1	Fri May 26 2006 12:09 PM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	Hootowl	Thu May 25 2006 06:22 AM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	Steve H1	Thu May 25 2006 09:38 AM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	Margie	Thu May 25 2006 02:51 PM
dark day?	HanKFranK	Thu May 25 2006 03:45 PM
Re: dark day?	Major7	Thu May 25 2006 05:45 PM
Re: dark day?	Margie	Thu May 25 2006 06:05 PM
Re: dark day?	Major7	Fri May 26 2006 09:15 PM
Re: dark day?	Bloodstar	Thu May 25 2006 07:36 PM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	Wingman51	Thu May 25 2006 09:34 AM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	leetdan	Wed May 24 2006 06:52 PM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	Bloodstar	Wed May 24 2006 07:12 PM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	danielw	Wed May 24 2006 07:53 PM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	Clark	Wed May 24 2006 08:29 PM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	CaneTrackerInSoFl	Wed May 24 2006 06:13 PM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	cdm-orlando	Wed May 24 2006 05:28 PM
You beat me to it.	Margie	Wed May 24 2006 03:33 PM
Re: A dark day in meteorology...	CoalCracker	Wed May 24 2006 03:07 PM

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