A failed forecast is an ideal time to give advancement opportunities to the people who have been waiting for the opportunities. In my last post, I described my skepticism that the more senior professional will be any better than the next in line. For a healthy stable society, we need to take advantage of opportunities to make vacancies for younger people so that they can have their chance to contribute. I don’t doubt that there is a deep pool of very qualified weather professionals who are ready and eager to fill the vacancies of resulting from dismissing the senior-most positions when bad forecasts cause significant harm by causing the consumer urban and emergency planners to over- or under-react.