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Oh no he didn’t! Yes, yes he did.
ABC 7 meteorologist Jerry Taft might be on vacation, but that didn’t stop him from throwing a Twitter snowball aimed at NBC 5 meteorologist Brant Miller’s map showing a massive snowfall in Chicago.
Ouch. That stung.
After nearly 60 retweets, more than 40 favorites and several comments, Taft ultimately explained what he was trying to get across in his tweet in a response to someone tweeting him about models and forecasts.
“You get it. It wasn’t a diss on @BrantMillerNBC , I luv Brant. Make your own forecast. If it’s wrong so be it. Don’t blame models.”
The now famous map Miller showed depicted information from one model. Forecasters typically crunch data from several models before making predictions. Miller did explain there was more than one model and eventually made a final prediction much closer to the general 3 to 6 inches the area received. But the general conversation on Twitter and Facebook surrounding Miller’s map questioned the need to highlight one piece of a complicated weather puzzle instead of waiting for all the pieces to fall into place.
But not everyone took it seriously. One person tweeted, “hoping for an Anchorman-esque brawl.” In that scene from the first “Anchorman” movie, everyone who was anyone in San Diego media showed up for an epic fight.
We’re not sure what Ron Burgundy would do, but there has been no response from Miller on Twitter, either on his Twitter account or the NBC Storm Team account.