Maryland Meteorologist Doxxes Forecast Doubter

Marty Pantz considers himself an expert on weather, among many other things. So when the armchair meteorologist saw a local forecaster's social media post predicting three times more snow than his personal prognostication, Pantz called him out.

"Nooooo waaay we're getting 6-10 inches, your forecast maps are clickbait. Stop fooling!" Pantz commented shortly before bedtime on the Facebook page of Justa Jerk, Meteorologist.

Pantz woke up the next day to dozens of texts calling him "snowflake", social media posts demanding a boycott of his tailoring business, and 1,500 pounds of ice cubes dumped in his driveway. 

Pantz is one of several Marylanders who say after criticizing a Justa Jerk weather forecast they were victims of doxxing by Jerk and his legion of forty-two followers.

Jerk doesn't deny the doxxing and says Pantz and people like him reap what they sow. "I have zero patience for Doubting Thomases. Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed," he said of Netizens who plan their week according to his forecast maps.

Blocking people who troll his posts would affect the algorithm his predictions warrant and ego craves, Jerk says. "The art and science of forecasting deserve reverence, like my Ph.D.," asserts the meteorologist whose snow total maps were canonized by The Hagerstown Herald in 2013, 2017, 2020, and 2021.

Pantz concedes his post was trollish but says he doesn't deserve the onslaught of hate. "I always thought doxxing was a Nextdoor thing," he told The Montgonion before cutting off the interview to chase away dog walkers dropping frozen poop bags in his yard.