The president's proposed budget would slash more than $75,000,000 from the National Weather Service in 2020, which would eliminate hundreds of positions and reduce observations that help forecasters create better forecasts.
Forecasters at the National Weather Service office monitor Hurricane Irma Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017, at the hurricane center in Miami. makes more than $75,000,000 in cuts to the National Weather Service that, if passed, could adversely affect the agency’s ability to keep the public safe during severe weather. The NWS is a force of nature that works tirelessly behind the scenes to warn every square inch of land in the United States when hazardous weather is on the way.
Upper-air observations would lose $2,271,000 of funding under the proposed budget. These observations, taken by instruments attached to weather balloons, collect information on temperature, moisture, wind, and air pressure as they ascend to the top of the atmosphere. Weather balloons only ever come up in everyday conversation as the butt of a UFO joke, but these upper-air soundings are critically important to the accuracy of weather models.
The data collected by weather balloons is ingested into weather models to “initialize” them, or tell them what the atmosphere is doing right now. A weather model needs to know what the atmosphere looks like right now so that it can paint a more accurate picture of what it thinks could happen in the future.
A $12,500,000 reduction in surface-based observation stations would also reduce the ability for forecasters to see what's happening on the ground as it happens. Most of the cuts would come from the
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