Governor Andrew Cuomo is coming under fire for comments he made on Saturday, calling the National Weather Service forecast “wrong,” ahead of last week’s storm in
Buffalo. Cuomo said Saturday that no one predicted that snow would fall south of Buffalo at a rate of five inches per hour. In fact, that’s exactly what the National Weather Service did. Responding to a question Saturday about emergency mobilization, Cuomo said Buffalo was ill-prepared for the first round of last week’s winter storm and he squarely blamed the National Weather Service. In a statement, the NWS said:”The National Weather Service issued timely and accurate forecasts for not just one, but two heavy lake-effect snow events for the Buffalo area.” On Sunday morning, Cuomo backpedaled, but still implied the Weather Service was inaccurate, and of little help for the first round of snow.
