Posted on 02/28/2025 6:28:26 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A California weather expert is one of many issuing a dire warning after reported firings within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which also includes the National Weather Service.
In a post on X Friday, Daniel Swain, a former UCLA climate scientist who now works at the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, said the firings are alarming.
“If there were to be large staffing reductions at NOAA and NWS—[as] appears is now indeed underway, with credible reports of much larger further cuts on the horizon—there will be people who die in extreme weather events and weather-related disasters who would not have otherwise,” he said in the statement.
Swain said slashing NOAA and weather service jobs could jeopardize the public’s access to free and accessible weather alerts and information.
“There have been multiple cases in just the past several years where NWS predictions and real-time emergency warnings saved hundreds (or even thousands of lives) in a single event,” Swain said in the statement.
“It may mean that meteorologists are put in a really difficult position where they’re trying their best and they’re still not able to keep up,” he said.
Other divisions of the NOAA such as those that improve the American weather model, could also be detrimental losses if included in the firings.
The reported firings come as the Trump administration’s new department led by Elon Musk, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has cut jobs, including thousands of National Parks workers.
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This will likely have a serious impact on our weather.
I look out my window and see the weather every day. And, it is still true, Red sky in morning, sailors take warning - red sky at night, sailor’s delight. See it still works.
No real need for a gaggle of meteorologists ...
National Weather Service daily forecast data is almost exclusively generated, distributed and displayed automatically via four daily runs of their main forecasting model run on supercomputers in Asheville, NC ... pretty much all that is required are a few employees to oil the supercomputers and associated equipment and assure that the distribution software, websites and communications are functioning ...
example automatic forecast by entering city:
one can actually obtain a forecast for the one-square-mile grid square in which their home lies by clicking on the model map ...
example of grid point forecast by clicking on forecast map:
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lon=-105.07587075222017&lat=40.57787388581326
i’ve done this for my home [not the above example] and bookmarked the resulting link, which i can consult at will ... that way i don’t have to listen to the local TV weather-girl chirp in front of a bluescreen she can’t even see ...
Wonder if Brandon's 80,000 new agents were ever hired.
Lessee. It’s winter and clouding up with a southwest wind. Barometer’s dropping.
I wonder what’s going to happen.
Los Angeles burned down while the mayor decided to fly to Ghana for a presidential inauguration - with full staff, of course, paid for by taxpayers - despite warnings for days on end about “extreme fire danger” and “extreme winds” (a deadly combination.
She now claims “no one told her of the danger.”
Little old me, with my cell phone, received almost hourly alerts about the “extreme dangers,” including alerts coming all night - for days before the massive fires.
Never mind, the “head of the department of water and power” who makes $750,000/year and speaks broken English denies brush wasn’t cleared back and the local reservoir that was empty “wouldn’t have made a difference - 17 million gallons of water that was supposed to fight fires and years of ignoring massive amounts of dry brush on city/state property.
I have no respect for any of it - especially those, or any organization that continues to blame “climate change” for the massive fires (like the governor).
Grifter whining his graft is being shut down
“...such as those that improve the American weather model...”
Sheeshe!
Our local TV stations have a staff of meteorologist and sophisticated Doppler radars and compete to provide the latest weather data and warnings during storm season. NOAA might provide watches and warnings for large areas, but my local TV stations do a far better job of localized forecasting
Words to use more often:
‘Balderdash’ and ‘Tommyrot’ :)
Since when did people die if they didn’t hear a weather forecast?
Any shortcomings will be remedied by the focused application of sophisticated AI.
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