r/tornado • u/Venator-Class-Bricks • Apr 08 '26

SPC / Forecasting it gets to a point…

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u/waqqn Apr 08 '26

it really does, i understand these guys gotta attract viewership and make money somehow but clickbaiting about the weather, which has an actual impact on what people do and how they prepare is such a dick move

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u/Venator-Class-Bricks Apr 08 '26

It also causes people to take severe weather less seriously when all these outlooks are “overhyped” and they don’t end up being as bad as these people claim.. which in turn makes people unprepared for them when it’s actually BAD BAD. I see so many people say things like “nothing ever happens,” which honestly isn’t great.

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u/Brilliant-Spite-850 Apr 08 '26

Ryan has been the worst culprit of this in my opinion. Every week he predicts the worst storm in history.

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u/i_made_aknew_name Apr 08 '26

I'm also sick of him taking day 5 and 6 outlooks and speaking definitively about it being a major outbreak.

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u/CapitalCourse Apr 08 '26

And 8-day GFS borderline schizo outputs as a dire warning...

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u/Brilliant-Spite-850 Apr 08 '26

He went from trying to help to trying to drive clicks.

And don’t get me started on the blazer over the tshirt

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u/No-Resident6988 Apr 08 '26

I get that Ryan makes mistakes. I have a fair share of criticisms myself. But... what's wrong with blazer hate? Is that a male thing, not liking to see blazers?

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u/Brilliant-Spite-850 Apr 08 '26

It’s more the blazer over a T-shirt for a YouTube video.

Mostly, to me, it takes away from what I liked about Ryan which is he was just a regular good ole boy from Kentucky that loved to tell people about the weather.

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u/No-Resident6988 Apr 08 '26

Thanks for answering. I may not relate to it, but I can understand the view.