"Urgent Wind Chill Advisory"

On Jan 28, 8:51 am, "Jay Honeck" wrote:
Despite this commonly known fact, the National Weather Service has
felt compelled to issue a urgent "Winter Weather Advisory" for
"extreme wind chills". My desktop weather (courtesy of the Weather
Honestly, will this "Nanny State" we've created ever right itself? ....
We're paying hundreds of meteorologists, in the employ of the Federal
Government, under the auspices of the National Weather Service, to
issue WARNINGS TO DRESS WARMLY...

It is to weep...

Jay,
I'm pretty sure that those warnings are automatically generated
when the collected data exceeding certain thresholds. Don't forget
that we live in a very litigious society. Imagine that if there is a
hiccup in the software so that such a warning is not issue and some
idiots decide to hike up a mountain without dressing warmly or some
street people not going to shelter etc. then die from hypothermina
etc., I'm pretty sure there would be a horde of lawyers lining up to
sue the national weather service and/or the weather station. Mind
you that this is not a statement against all lawyers (my father was a
lawyer and two of my siblings are lawyers), this is just a sad fact-of-
life of our current legal system. Yes, it is to weep not because of
the 'nanny state' but the condition which creates it.
Regarding the National Weather Service, I am quite grateful that we
have a great weather information system and still quite amaze that we
have everything at our fingertips be it logging on the internet or
clicking the on button on the remote TV control to get very
comprehensive weather information. I check the aviationweather.gov
and the weather.com sites pretty much everyday.

Hai Longworth