Hypercane 0
The resident curmudgeon at my local rag gets one right. Weather channels and websites (whether they have the word “weather” in their name or not) pine for disaster, as their coverage of the recent storm indicated. No one pays attention to them otherwise.
By mid-morning Thursday, though, the forecasting mood began to change. I turned on The Weather Channel and was greeted by long faces. Anchors there and elsewhere were barely able to disguise their disappointment at the new projection for the storm:
Joaquin was predicted to take his fury out to sea.
