You can’t make this stuff up. The Weather Channel typically sends a reporter to hurricane landfalls to file live reports. Hurricane Florence is no exception. However, in this case although it appears in the video the reporter can barely stand up in the wind, but when the camera zooms out, his fakery is revealed.
h/t to Ronnie Rogers via Facebook
Update: Attemptng to save face, TWC made a statement to BuzzFeed about the fiasco:
“It’s important to note that the two individuals in the background are walking on concrete, and Mike Seidel is trying to maintain his footing on wet grass, after reporting on-air until 1:00 a.m. ET this morning and is undoubtedly exhausted,” the network said.
Update2:
Here is a better video.
I like the raised arm to protect himself from flying cars .
Great acting in a drama series .
I thought CNN had cornered the market . What no Anderson Cooper ?
More Fake News….. They just cannot help themselves. They are so used to manipulating the images we see and the discussions we get to hear…. But now with the Internet we can expose their falsehoods and deceit, discover the facts for ourselves or send their slip ups viral…. Which is why they want to Censor us and regulate the Internet. They want their “Power over the Narrative” back.
Well they are never going to get that “Power” back as long as a Free American Society reigns…. I was going to say as “long as free Western society reigns”, but too many free Western societies have given up their freedoms to an entrenched political class and the Welfare state.
“As Super Typhoon Mangkhut continues to sweep across the island of Luzon in the Philippines, it appears that the massive eye of the storm has collapsed in on itself. Even after making landfall and losing its eye though, the storm is still a massive Category-5 strength, shooting out rain, thunder, and lighting across thousands of square miles. In other words, if Hurricane Florence was Loki, joyfully spreading disaster and chaos, then Mangkhut is definitely Thor. Or, maybe it’s simply the Hulk. Actually, it’s more like a typhoon angel and a mutant pirate missing an eye had a baby, that baby was an avenging pirate/angel, then the angel baby grew up, it exposed itself to gamma radiation, gained incredible size and strength, stole Thor’s hammer, and used it to attack the Philippines.”
https://www.facebook.com/Okinawatyphoonpics/
I’m glad someone has mentioned that one, Florence is rather hogging the limelight!
Just so that you know how bad it’s getting….we are unable to see the clip here in Australia…I guess they pulled some kind of copy-right move…but, so much for internet freedom!
Yep, very hard to find it on uTube.
Check Breitbart.
This video is now viral, being played all over the world and is front page news on many websites.
https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/09/15/watch-weather-channel-reporter-mocked-for-appearing-to-exaggerate-florence/
Hey, I didn’t know weather systems can be that local. Aw, is there something global warming can’t do?
30 years ago I jettisoned my TV and never bought another one. Guess why.
He’s not leaning against the wind!?
If no one already commented, he’s bracing the wrong direction to the wind. The wind is coming from right to left and he’s braced for a left to right wind. Another reason I stopped watching TWC.
The Weather Channel’s culture is one of deceptively hyping weather events for ratings and politics.
The reporter is just a willing part of his employer’s culture of deception and corruption.
The reporter lied about the wind speed as well, claiming that the wind speed was over 60mph when it was actually around 35.
What a useless channel TWC has become, all over the desire to scare people about the weather and climate.
Funny clip. After a quick search he seems to have resisted the cAGW bandwagon otherwise. Pretty impressive after 25 years in the network. I’m giving Mike Seidel the benefit of the doubt – gusts do throw trash around. Same weatherman during Hurricane Nate:
Gusts do not throw trash around?
That seems to be the opposite of what I have observed.
Rapid changes in wind speed have a greater tendency to lift objects and hurls them than steady wind.
If you read again, you notice we agree.
10-4, sorry.
My bad.
He had to land under sniper fire.
I bet they have a fan set up outside the picture 🙂
Mike Seidel’s movements in this clip are most certainly “gesticulations”:
Are they justified? In a “religious” sense, yes. Climatism is a religion, and Seidel has apparently taken holy orders as one of its priests. He is seen here delivering a sermon on “The End is Near”.
/s
Gesticulation suits the “Religion Which Must Not Be Named” globally.
But, there are many deserving candidates. One of my personal favourites reached a milestone based on Indian Penal Code Criteria yesterday:
https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/pachauri-to-be-charged-in-sexual-harassment-case201809141614270001/
Mike Seidel’s movements in this clip are most certainly “gesticulations”:
Are these gesticulations justified?
In a “religious” sense, yes. Everyone is entitled to freely practice religion. Climatism is a religion, and Seidel has apparently taken holy orders as one of its priests. He is seen here delivering a sermon on “The End is Near”.
/s
Sorry about the “echo”.
When I pushed “Post Comment”, the screen went blank for a moment and then reappeared with my text still in edit mode. So I made a small edit, pushed the button again and then both posts appeared in print.
[So, remove the first dupe? Or leave them both as-is? .mod]
“[So, remove the first dupe? Or leave them both as-is? .mod]”
Doesn’t matter. Important thing is to get WUWT working normally again.
To make it even more stupid, he is not leaning into the wind.
It seems to me that if you were trying to hold your position in a strong wind, you might want to turn your back into it, less chance of debris/raindrops hitting you in the face.
And FWIW, I’ve worked outside all day in strong winds, it wears you out just trying to keep your balance.
Yes UK, I see your point.
If the wind is strong enough to knock you around, leaning away from it will make it easier to be knocked over.
We naturally lean into forces which push against us.
And looking away from strong wind in dangerous situations is just dumb…I think you want to see it if something is flying towards your head and body.
Look at the knee joint and in which position it might be better
aligned to absorb a sudden stress.
I think the biggest take from the video on Update 2 is the posted wind speed and gusts in the upper left corner.
Too many people think the wind that is being shown is a hurricane. As the video shows that wind is only 29 mph. So many people do not understand how powerful 74+ mph winds really are.
Force is proportional to the square of the velocity, a 29 mph wind is about 15% of a hurricane force wind.
It takes 40 MPH to push a person at all, unless you are on roller skates or something.
Doing the math, a 40 mph minimal tropical storm wind is almost twice as forceful as a 29 mph wind.
29 mph is Force 6 on the Beaufort Scale, i. e. a “Strong Breeze”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcaEwYWkKAk
funny response to this fakery
I think the S.O.B. should be prosecuted for perpetrating a fraud on the public.
Blaming it on Wet grass is ridiculous but typical for climate change idiots
So many people involved producing a simple news segment are willing to LIE.
Gee, makes you wonder what else they would LIE about.
Everything and anything.
Any.
Thing.
Every.
Thing.
Period.
.
This video is a perfect example of MSM and their continued psychological warfare. To what end? 1984 is here people. While the commenters on this forum are awake, most of the populace are not. Time to break up the monopoly the MSM has worldwide.
Hilarious. Wouldn’t be surprised if there was a big wind-machine set up just out of view.
I particularly like the way he was leaning forward when the wind was coming from behind him.
So now after the hurricane, CBC has been interviewing Kevin Trenberth. Kevin says climate change will make for stronger and longer hurricanes. The CBC knows no limits to natural disaters.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_E._Trenberth
Haven’t taken the time to read all comments but it’s clear that the guy has his back to the wind while his posture makes it seem he’s facing (and bracing) it — note the direction of the plants bending with the wind in the sign planter nearby.
Another guy (on FOX I think) stood up, extending his upper body through the sunroof of a moving car (side and background revealing the movement without showing any part of the car), making it seem as though the relative wind was the REAL wind! When the floor director signals ‘you’re on’, YOU’RE ON! (story or no story — make it up if you have to).