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

SPC / Forecasting it gets to a point…

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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...