Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Oh great...now dere are mini-sKILLy's running around scaring everyone.

Bogus tips vex meteorologists
50 phony sightings of storms

Forecasters in Illinois and Wisconsin spent days checking out phony weather reports this spring after a weather-savvy person submitted more than 50 fake sightings to a National Weather Service Web site that meteorologists use to track severe weather. Over a six-week period this spring, someone filed reports, sometimes several in one day, describing felled trees, hail and tornadoes that never occurred....

1 comment:

k-mad said...

"'Any erosion of confidence in the warning system could result in a life and death situation,' said Glenn Lussky, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in La Crosse, Wis.'"

So dere... now you know da risks...