I've had a half dozen articles forwarded to me starting this morning that contain various complaints pertaining to the forecasts for Helene. I'm not sure what to make of them: with one exception (which I noted at the time), I thought the forecasts were quite good .  That exception was that the NWS was far too slow to pick up on the threat of catastrophic flooding in the Appalachians. But, that was noted on this blog at the time. Published here on the 24th: Meteorologist Dr. Marshall Shepherd wrote in Forbes  today: Addition Sunday Evening: From Virginia Postrel this evening.  As noted above and below, that may have been true pertaining to the National Weather Service but it certainly was not true here nor was it on at least one other site that I viewed last week. I wrote on the 25th, Please look at what I published farther down in the same piece. The red X is in the original. No areas of catastrophic flooding [pink] were on that map nor were there forecasts of "major"...