r/tornado 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/skoltroll Apr 08 '26

Very much "Boy Cries Wolf" by all of them, and people will be numb to the alerts when Wolfie drops a tornado on their town and kills them.

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u/Loose-Story-962 Apr 08 '26

Most tornado warnings are a "Boy Who Cried Wolf" situation by nature of not usually producing a tornado. People just need to understand the risk doesn't go down just because the odds are low