As I have often posted to my friends. Please be careful what you believe on FB on a daily basis. Much of it is fake, bogus or gotcha stuff BALTIMORE — A winter forecast map that is going viral and suggests above-normal snowfall for most of the country — and “well above-normal” snow for the Mid-Atlantic and New England — comes from a satire website. The story has been shared widely across social media, carrying the headline “Meteorologists Predict Record-Shattering Snowfall Coming Soon.” The accompanying map forecasts an unusually snowy winter for about two-thirds of the country, and a corridor of even heavier snow from Virginia to Maine. In the story on EmpireNews.net, a Dr. Boris Scvediok, doctor of global weather sciences, explains that snowfall is expected to dramatically exceed normal seasonal totals. “Because this year the snowfall is predicted to start by the end of September or the beginning of October, you can expect to multiply that number by up to five, ten, maybe even twenty times in some areas,” Scvedoik says in the article. “In the worst zones, you could see 50 times the amount of snow you’ve had in the past.” If that sounds a little too dramatic to be true, it’s because it is.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 18:21:30 +0000
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