Still Waters Posted January 13, 2012 #1 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Weather forecasters in South Africa have been threatened with prison if their predictions prove incorrect.Independent forecasters have been told they could be imprisoned for up to ten years - or fined up to £800,000 - if they issue incorrect severe weather warnings without official permission. The astonishing threat is contained in a new law designed to prevent panic and economic damage caused by false predictions of gales, flash flooding or drought. Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashotep Posted January 13, 2012 #2 Share Posted January 13, 2012 I don't think I would be issuing any weather warnings without official permission. What's going to happen when they don't issue a weather warning and people end up hurt because of that. I wonder who they will throw in jail over that. I've always heard after two days you are just making a educated guess at what the weather will do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldorado Posted January 13, 2012 #3 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Scandalous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior Chubb Posted January 14, 2012 #4 Share Posted January 14, 2012 These charges may have some basis (if there are rogue weathermen running around SA with unfounded warnings of extreme weather to scare the public, some would argue that's what todays scientists are doing with Global Warming) but are extreme to say the least. I wonder what they would have done to Michael Fish in 1987? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+and-then Posted January 14, 2012 #5 Share Posted January 14, 2012 The Weather Channel in the US is guilty of excessive hype with every hurricane or tropical storm of the season. It's about TV ratings here...the SA issue sounds like government vs private industry wrangling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyche101 Posted January 18, 2012 #6 Share Posted January 18, 2012 That is just hilarious that an entire Government could be so dimwitted. And frightening at the same time. So, I hear there are plenty jobs in South Africa for weathermen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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