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Re: When to call it?There's been alot of arm chair quaterbacks saying what they would have done or what should have been done. Now we have one meteroligist giving his opinion.It's an opinion,not fact.I have read the opinion of other meteroligists who believe it was a gustnado.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustnado. Read the current issue of FOH.Front page article about the stage collapse at the Ottawa Bluesfest. After a long investigation,they concluded it was a squall compareable to an F1 tornado packing 85mph winds. Unless you've been the one that has that responsibility,you have no idea what is going on. I have been either part of a team or the one with the responsibility for calling an event. If it's a small event,you're looking at a weather app on your phone.If it's a large event,you may have someone watching a computer and monitoring a radio equipped to recieve NOAA alerts.What I have found is that the weather reports are terribly inacurrate for any particular area.No matter what you do,somebody will be second guessing you.I did a show at a county fair last Saturday where they were calling for 40mph winds,heavey rain and hail.We got the rain but not the winds or hail.The author in the above link states there were warnings about thunderstorms over a period of several days. So maybe they have should have just canceled the whole fair just in case. When the govenor said it was a fluke,he could be right right. There were tents and a ferriswheel at the fair that were not affected at all by the wind that took down the stage.But we won't know untill an investigation is complete.We need to quit speculating untill we know what really happened.
Re: When to call it?
There's been alot of arm chair quaterbacks saying what they would have done or what should have been done. Now we have one meteroligist giving his opinion.It's an opinion,not fact.I have read the opinion of other meteroligists who believe it was a gustnado.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustnado. Read the current issue of FOH.Front page article about the stage collapse at the Ottawa Bluesfest. After a long investigation,they concluded it was a squall compareable to an F1 tornado packing 85mph winds. Unless you've been the one that has that responsibility,you have no idea what is going on. I have been either part of a team or the one with the responsibility for calling an event. If it's a small event,you're looking at a weather app on your phone.If it's a large event,you may have someone watching a computer and monitoring a radio equipped to recieve NOAA alerts.What I have found is that the weather reports are terribly inacurrate for any particular area.No matter what you do,somebody will be second guessing you.I did a show at a county fair last Saturday where they were calling for 40mph winds,heavey rain and hail.We got the rain but not the winds or hail.The author in the above link states there were warnings about thunderstorms over a period of several days. So maybe they have should have just canceled the whole fair just in case. When the govenor said it was a fluke,he could be right right. There were tents and a ferriswheel at the fair that were not affected at all by the wind that took down the stage.But we won't know untill an investigation is complete.We need to quit speculating untill we know what really happened.
