He began with a clip of Hurricane Dorian slowly moving due west directly towards Florida in 2019. Morales promised it would turn north and dodge Florida landfall — and that’s exactly what it did.
But he said that kind of forecasting would be impossible this year.
“As you’ve grown accustomed to my presentations over my 34 years in South Florida newscast, confidently, I went on TV and told you, ‘It’s going to turn. You don’t need to worry,'” Morales said on the air.