Now There’s a Good Idea

Norma Yvonne refers to meteorologists as "mentirologos" (liarists),
for their tendency to turn every possible snow, rain or wind storm into
civil defense apocolypse and sending the terrified citizenry rushing
to hardware stores and Targets for shovels, salt and drinking water.
Perhaps they would be a bit more circumspect in their prediction if we
adopted some hard-line accountability from our Russian brothers…..

Russian weathermen
who get their predictions wrong could face stiff fines if
one government
minister
has
his way.
Repeat
offenders
could
even be sent to jail if Emergency Minister Situations Minister Sergei
Shoigu
gets his way.

The minister was speaking in Irkutsk, which is on flood alert. He said
he wanted weathermen to pay the price if they got forecasts wrong, because
that led to emergency services being needlessly called out.

"
If there is a disaster we send rescuers and equipment and spend money.
But weathermen hold no responsibility – and do not think about having to
defend the population."

Weathermen in Irkutsk have said the risk of flooding should subside soon.
But according to Interfax, Shoigu "promised to squeeze compensation
out of the weather forecasters if their forecasts proved wrong".

from Ananova