{"id":2338,"date":"2013-03-14T09:51:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T14:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2013-03-20T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T14:15:00","slug":"u-s-weather-forecasts-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/14\/u-s-weather-forecasts-suck\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Weather Forecasts Suck!&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw an interesting editorial on the news the other day&#8230;. \u00c2\u00a0It was about how the U.S. was way behind the rest of the World in Weather Forecasting&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0It said that during the &#8217;80&#8217;s and &#8217;90&#8217;s, the U.S. failed to upgrade\/update the necessary hardware\/software needed to predict accurate long range predictions, in other words, we were too cheap to spend the money, while European and other nations were investing 10 times what the U.S. was in this important aspect of our lives&#8230;. \u00c2\u00a0As an example, they stated that the European computer models accurately \u00c2\u00a0predicted that Hurricane Sandy would make a left turn and strike the Northeastern U.S. while all the U.S. computer models predicted it would stay in the Atlantic and turn slowly to the right moving further out into the ocean&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0This is really, really sad, as we continue our decline in about everything from Education, Space Exploration, Manufacturing, Jobs &#8211; Ah-h-h-h!!!&#8230;. \u00c2\u00a0You name it and we&#8217;re closing in on last place!&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0We used to &#8220;The Leader&#8221; of the World in all those things, and now we are fast becoming the &#8220;Bozos&#8221; of the known World&#8230;. \u00c2\u00a0What happened?&#8230;. \u00c2\u00a0You should know, unless you&#8217;re just one of the millions of dumb &#8220;Bozos&#8221; standing in line to do whatever the corrupt I, Me, Mine Politicians, whom YOU ELECTED, tell you what Cliff to jump off of!&#8230;. \u00c2\u00a0Is that &#8220;Bozos&#8221; or &#8220;Lemmings&#8221;?&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw an interesting editorial on the news the other day&#8230;. \u00c2\u00a0It was about how the U.S. was way behind the rest of the World in Weather Forecasting&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0It said that during the &#8217;80&#8217;s and &#8217;90&#8217;s, the U.S. failed to upgrade\/update the necessary hardware\/software needed to predict accurate long range predictions, in other words, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2348,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions\/2348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}