April 16, 2014 WA Cascades Extended Outlook

•Be civil and respectful, avoid personal attacks - that is the norm here;
•Alternate viewpoints are welcome: debate the viewpoint, not the person;

Amar, you seem to have clearly violated both of them in your quest to be right.

Where is Amarr personally attacking? Amarr made an observation and provided an opinion. I don't see any character attacks in his posts. Can you quote a specific line?

Michael is a long-standing member of the Northwest outdoor community. Long before anyone else was paying any attention to mountain weather, Michael helped many of us plan trips, myself included.

That is truly wonderful but unfortunately irrelevant. The original post superficially appears spammy and the link provided offers no useful information for anyone.

FWIW: I've used Michael's custom forecasts for a number of years.   I find the custom forecasts amazingly accurate.   While I can gather similar forecast info by scouring NOAA and UW sites and digesting a number of charts and tables,  but I find it much more convenient and accurate to subscribe to Michael’s service and get a custom forecast.  Michael is able to analyze and concisely summarize the wealth of weather data available into easy to understand forecasts.

You mean better than Larry Poobah's forecast?!? (whose snow levels are never right....but the product placement of K2 and OR are always just fine)

Ed

You can be factually correct and still be unnecessarily harsh.

I'm guilty of this plenty in life so maybe thats why I interpreted it that way. I don't mean to make a case justifying 'links' or whatever but frankly that original sig line didn't bother me at all. As well I hope I didn't sound like I was 'attacking' you Amar for your response. To me it read kind of harsh--but it is so hard to tell tone and inflection on the internet. Maybe was coming from a place of exasperation at the post given you have known of Mr. Fagin's involvement in weather related things for such a long time.

Matt

You mean better than Larry Poobah's forecast?!? (whose snow levels are never right....but the product placement of K2 and OR are always just fine)

Ed

No Larry and Michael are not at all the same guy.

When I get a custom forecast with Michael -- I'll give him a specific location and he will give me his assessment of what the temps, winds and amounts of precipatation will be over a four day period. I have also given him a location and asked him to alert me when a stretch of favorable weather is coming in.

No Larry and Michael are not at all the same guy.

Yes, Randy....I know. It supported my hypothesis, because their names are different. Just kidding d00d.

I was speaking to Larry's inability to provide accurate information and/or any insight to weather....effective to our pursuits.
He does market well, for which certain TAYers seem to take offense.

To clarify, we should all be offended by inaccurate information.....not by marketing plugs.