I got a call last week. It was Charlie Walsh from the Connecticut Post in Bridgeport. He, like so many others, had seen AccuWeather’s latest press release, featuring Joe Bastardi’s call for the remainder of winter, and wanted to discuss it.
I didn’t demure!
“While I’m not saying he’s wrong,” said WTNH-TV’s Geoff Fox, “call me a skeptic.”
Fox pointed to Bastardi’s prediction in October of last year that the coming winter would be “cooler than normal.”
“I think the tendency of people is to hear [Bastardi’s] predictions without considering his past accuracy,” Fox said.
Here’s the story from Saturday’s paper.