Beyond Silly: Fire All the Meteorologists

Apparently, when New York-based writers can't think of anything else to write, they decide to write a piece trashing meteorologists.

Can whoever is running this country please take a page from the Great Communicator’s book and fire all the nation’s meteorologists? These guys and gals need to get shipped back to the minors.

Some eloquent meteorologists decided to write a defense of our profession. You can read a comparison between the results of meteorologists and, say, sports here.

Dr. Marshall Shephard and Dr. Chuck Doswell wrote an overall defense, here.

I'll give the last word to the National Weather Service's Gary Szatkowski: