6 Jul 2025 6:39 am
From Red State:JohnnyYou » 06 Jul 2025, 6:24 am » wrote: ↑ Not DOGEing weather tools.. A meteorolgist in Florida said some of the major tools he has used to predict landfall are gone and warned his viewers for the first time in 34 years his confidence in his forecasts is diminished. This is a pretty important need in Florida and the East Coast. Weather forecasters are a sort of vaccine if you think about it.
"To be clear, the "cuts" being cited are not only minimal and target bloat, not effective services, but they do not go into effect until October. As for any prior staff cuts (NOAA was in the process of cutting 10 percent of its staff), there is likewise no evidence that those hampered the forecasting of this event. Yet, even a California state senator is repeating the lie because he believes it helps him politically. The NWS could have a trillion-dollar budget, and it would have put out the same forecast.
To the extent that the amount of rain was not predicted, it is not possible to know exactly how much will fall when a system stalls out over a specific area, which is what happened here. The same thing occurred when Hurricane Harvey sat on top of Houston for several days in 2017. The government is not magic. It can not fix every situation. It can not foretell every tragedy so as to prevent it. Certainly, it can't control the weather. To pretend it can for political gain, spitting on the deaths of children in the process, is evil."
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