A map showing Hurricane Irma on a path to hit Houston is fake news

[RKP5637]

FFS!!! What an idiot to do this.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/sep/01/blog-posting/map-showing-hurricane-irma-path-hit-houston-fake-n/

A map showing that government officials predict Hurricane Irma is on a path to hit Houston is fake news.

"Everyone needs to pay attention to Hurricane Irma," read a Facebook post on Aug. 31, 2017. (The post has since been deleted.) "She’s predicted to come through Mexico, hit us and everything in between up to Houston. She's already a Category 2 and hasn't even got into warm water yet."

The post uses the official logo of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and has a map showing a projected path of the storm. It had been shared more than 36,000 times on Sept. 1, 2017.

[spin]

1. At this point to me it looks like Irma will either be a fish storm ...

or closely brush the Eastern seaboard.

Of course it is simply too early to tell and definitely far too early to panic.

[LisaL]

7. I wouldn't say it's far too early, considering some models showing it hitting the East coast.

[spin]

9. When Irma is five days off we will have a much better idea. ...

The three day path predictions are usually very accurate but the strength predictions are often not.

Let's hope it doesn't hit the east coast as a major hurricane.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. What kind of asshole would do something like that?

... never mind; the Internet is full of assholes. But really!

[gratuitous]

6. Indeed

Can you imagine the fear and uncertainty this bogus report would cause among people already weary from dealing with Harvey? I mean, it's like if the President went into a long holiday weekend with a "stay tuned" ambiguous message about whether or not he was going to rescind DACA. A lot of people already weary from dealing with ICE have their education, careers, and very lives hanging in the balance while an unrelenting narcissist demands the nation's attention: Will he side with millions of people struggling against unimaginable odds and stress, or will he throw another sop to his Nazi friends?

Have a nice holiday weekend!

[WinkyDink]

3. When did pranks become "fake news"? Are human-speaking dogs "fake news" now?

[RKP5637]

4. No idea, but that's the title of the article. n/t

[malaise]

5. A friend in Barbados also asked me about this

It's way too fake - the location of the storm of wrong

[applegrove]

8. She could go in any direction at this point.

[Baclava]

10. Actual models keep it curving north

[RKP5637]

11. Thanks for the map! n/t