I don't know why The Weather Channel -- along with many other forecasters -- have much credibility when they are so frequently far off the mark.
Two years ago, the "experts" were saying that Hurricane Irma was going to pound southeast Florida, and ALL of their reporters -- the ones you see on the beaches -- were in Miami and other locations on the east coast of Florida. It wasn't until the day of landfall that they finally (and belatedly) sent reporters to the west coast locations.
One of my close friends and his wife took the Weather Channel's advice and came rushing over to my side of the state, and they even checked into a hotel over here. But almost as soon as they arrived, the Weather Channel said that the storm was going to make a near-direct hit on our location on the west coast, so they immediately headed back to their Port St. Lucie residence on the east coast.
Then, we were bracing for a direct hit on the predicted morning of landfall, only to find out -- AT 5 P.M. -- just before landfall that the storm was now headed down the middle of the state, which meant that we weren't subject to significant impact at all.
Now, back to the current situation. THE WEATHER CHANNEL "EXPERTS" SHOULD HAVE KNOWN (and calculated) that the slowdown of the storm would lead to a more-eastward (AND EARLIER) turn to the north. They had forecast the northward turn to take place on Monday, which was the day of predicted landfall. But those idiots never factored into the equation that with the storm due to arrive a day later that THE TURN WOULD COME BEFORE IT EVEN HIT LAND.
And to think that some of those idiots at The Weather Channel are making big bucks to make expert predictions. Instead, all they tell us is WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING at any given point in time, but they are all over the place as to what is actually GOING to happen.