The head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Tuesday defen...
WASHINGTON - The head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Tuesday defended a regional National Weather Service office in Alabama that told residents the state was not at risk from Hurricane Dorian and said no one will lose their jobs.
After days of controversy, NOAA released an unsigned statement Friday that suggested the Birmingham tweet “spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time.” Commerce Department Inspector General Peggy Gustafson is reviewing NOAA’s Friday statement, said Robert Johnson, Gustafson’s chief of staff, in an email to Reuters, declining to elaborate and saying the office “does not comment on open matters under review.”
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump holds a chart showing the original projected track of Hurricane Dorian that appears to have been extended with a black line to include parts of the Florida panhandle and of the state of Alabama during a status report meeting on the hurricane in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., September 4, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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