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…Experts were shocked and outraged by budget cuts made to the National Weather Service earlier this year.
Some offices were forced to no longer operate 24 hours a day back in April.
In the Jackson, Kentucky NWS office, one of the positions they were forced to cut was the full-time overnight forecaster.
The office's website even lists the "Meteorologist in Charge" position as vacant.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 20, 2025 4:51 AM |
Locals, naturally, are blaming Joe Biden and conspiracies involving liberals and communists using weather weapons.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 19, 2025 11:38 AM |
And there's no FEMA anymore either...
And the US is a climate change denying country and the second biggest polluter on the planet so this is only going to get worse.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 19, 2025 3:14 PM |
Bump
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 19, 2025 9:10 PM |
I never use the National Weather service anyway. I just look at the app on my phone.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 19, 2025 9:15 PM |
it sounds like this is working out nicely for them
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 20, 2025 1:18 AM |
R6 I imagine similar cuts are all over the place, we’re so fucked.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 20, 2025 4:41 AM |
Hurricane season starts soon.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 20, 2025 4:44 AM |
[quote]As a severe weather outbreak became increasingly likely Friday, meteorologists at the National Weather Service office in Jackson, Kentucky, made the decision to call everyone in and staff the overnight shift, according to Tom Fahy, who represents the NWS Employees Union.
[quote]This NWS office issued tornado warnings ahead of deadly twisters that struck the region, particularly in hard-hit Pulaski and Laurel Counties.
[quote]...staff shortages did not affect the accuracy or timeliness of the tornado warnings that were issued.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 20, 2025 4:51 AM |
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