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Do you think, the administration will change its mind, when half their constituants are dead because of tornadoes, floods and shit, that couldn't be predicted because of staff shortage...?

This is, of course, by design. When there is obvious need for more services they will farm that out to private companies, who will charge more, provide worse service, and treat their employees like crap. But the wealthy donors who own these companies will be able to buy new yachts.

I meant to say ancient historian, but it does come up (particularly in my course on ancient cities): news.yale.edu/2021/08/02/f...

So much of the hard work, the valuable work done by our government is invisible. With attacks on education and mass disinformation, when we rebuild, our government needs to do a much better job of clearly showing to the general public all that it does and how it actually impacts our daily lives.

2025 wants us to buy it from a private vendor not the government. In the meantime we just have to get our a$$ kicked.

Any stupid enough to vote for the felon would have been way to stupid to understand that this would be part of the damage he would do to NOAA.

FYI: the ECMWF model is screwed without reliable US data input as well. The reason why the 06UTC run of GFS is considered dodgy is incomplete data.

Radar cast has become noticeably less reliable in relation to reality in the last two weeks. And that's just for a few showrs passing overhead. I hike and camp and I watch those religiously they were really very accurate for about the last 6 years until now.

For heaven sake, just open the window,stick your head outside, you’ll know what the weather is. Right ?

The post-DOGE NWS:

... and pray... ... and buy a 100-year calender with weather forecasts (since there is no climate change, it will still be accurate)...

That's what Americans voted for

This is literal genocide on American soil

Again, the people who are going to hurt most from this are the RedHats in the hinterlands. Tornado warnings? Blizzard and ice storm warnings? Nah, just let those family farms and small towns blow away. He already got their votes.

I've been trying to pay attention - my kid is supposed to be starting a program in meteorology this fall. I don't know if I should tell them to pick something else, or what. Either no jobs, or only jobs working for Evil, Inc. It's terrifying.

In an inherently probabilisic field, it's numbers that you want. To paraphrase a musical production genius, "I got a fever and the only prescription more numbers!!"

And Trump and Musk will make it far worse - but Trump isolating the US in a minority of one could be his undoing.

But this is exactly what Cheeto Mussolini and Project 2025 want, right? To cripple NWS to be able to justify privatizing it?

I keep seeing this everywhere-perhaps most pronounced with the stock market- the wish casting is off the charts. The self-willed sugar high before the inevitable crash.

The GFS has become almost worthless lately. It's awful.

The entire US becoming a Sharpie-on-a-map “cone of uncertainty”.

These are the facts they want to ignore. They suffer from immediate gratification’ for all matters, and react to the problem of the moment. Climate isn’t temporary and damage and solutions are long term. Selfish and immature. Sigh.

The weather has been a part of my life since I was a young child studying the farmers almanac my dad teaching when to plant by the moon. The fact that they’re hiding the weather from us is very suspicious. Trust no one!!!!

No forecasting and when the hurricanes hit, no FEMA to help with recovery.

it's low-key one of the more terrible things these people have done. many, MANY people are going to die as a result of this crap. michael lewis wrote at length about how important this particular part of the fed is, in many, many unexpected ways.

I'm already noticing the effects in my area...the lack of info as dangerous weather is moving through. I've also noticed that The Weather Channel seems to be stumbling a bit now that they're not working side by side with their NOAA, NWS partners (annecdotal observation).

This is big. Crazy big. And crazily targeted at… who? Jesus these people are mad as RFK Jr.

Statistically it's going to impact the red states much more as will the fema cuts in the aftermath. The insurance companies will be protected from payouts bc they gave a million to trump. Going to be a big hit.

The FM channel in my area which gave weather info constantly now just has a message that it is temporarily down and to go to weather.gov.

I believe it. I’ve noticed the level of accuracy go down in my mountain village. I can’t even rely on the radar apps anymore. Soon I’m going to have to learn how to read clouds like tea leaves. This is untenable if you are growing food, or don’t want to die from flooding, etc.

Republican SOP: 1. Cripple perfectly functional goverment service 2. Proclaim "See? We told you the government doesn't work!" 3. Hire private contractor for twice the price and half the effectiveness. 4. Repeat.

But look at all the monies you're saving*!! No taxes!!**

This combined with zero budget for FEMA will make this hurricane season very interesting as people say "I thought the lion would eat other peoples faces not mine"