Tagged: Peter Coade
‘Fraidy cat province: Strait-Richmond edition
The Strait-Richmond Regional School Board cancelled classes in all schools today. Apparently there’s a wicked storm underway.
Thank God the children are safe. Not to mention the teachers and board administrators, union members all, right up to the superintendent.
To be fair, there is snow visible in half of these highway cam images from the school board’s catchment area, just none on the actual roads beings monitored. In case you missed Jim Meek’s column on this subject in Saturday’s Herald, you can find it here. Said Meek:
My idea of hell is [CBC weather dude Peter] Coade broadcasting the weather forecast in an endless loop on TV, which is pretty well what CBC Nova Scotia passes off as news these days. (Just add in crime, and you’ve got the formula.)
It’s not that I have anything against Coade, a good man stuck in an assembly line job. It’s just that we have now endured months of warnings about weather bombs that never exploded; slippery roads that didn’t materialize; and storm forecasts that yielded to sunny days.
What will it take to restore some common sense to these decisions?
Peter Coade – buy him off for $24?
CBC Weekend Mornings’ take on school snow days, rain days, bad Camry days, and damp snow pants days:
[Those without a Flash-endowed machine, go here.]
H/T: Doug Barron, director. Cast: unknown.
CBC weather panic — Steve Murphy weighs in
CTV Anchor Steve Murphy writes:
Have you had an opportunity to watch Cindy Day’s very measured approach to forecasting these recent storms? Cindy constantly stresses that tropical cyclones are extremely difficult to predict with precision, especially when they are several days away. Her forecasts employ likely and anticipated storm tracks and include ranges for rainfall and wind speeds. A review of last week’s coverage would confirm that Cindy Day’s prognosis for Hurricane Bill was remarkably accurate even several days ahead of time. Our news coverage of the arrival of the storm focused mainly on surf conditions and danger from the waves. There are several good sources for weather information in Nova Scotia but we believe Cindy Day’s forecasts on CTV are the most consistently reliable.
It was CBC Radio that peaked contrarian‘s ire. Steve’s point (or Cindy’s) about the unpredictability of tropical cyclones is right on the money. This raises the question why we insist on talking about these storms five or six days out.
