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Trump’s Alabama hurricane claim turns a weather forecast into a federal faceplant

Trump falsely claimed Alabama would be hit harder by Hurricane Dorian, even as federal weather officials were already briefing the public with a different forecast. The resulting scramble put NOAA and the National Weather Service in the awkward position of cleaning up a presidential error in real time.

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First recorded Sep 1, 2019·Meaningfully updated Sep 1, 2019

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Trump’s Alabama hurricane claim turns a weather forecast into a federal faceplant

Trump falsely claimed Alabama would be hit harder by Hurricane Dorian, even as federal weather officials were already briefing the public with a different forecast. The resulting scramble put NOAA and the National Weather Service in the awkward position of cleaning up a presidential error in real time.

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Trump’s Alabama hurricane claim turns a weather forecast into a federal faceplant

Trump falsely claimed Alabama would be hit harder by Hurricane Dorian, even as federal weather officials were already briefing the public with a different forecast. The resulting scramble put NOAA and the National Weather Service in the awkward position of cleaning up a presidential error in real time.

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