Impacts of NWS cuts
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It will be interesting to see later this year when hurricane season really heats up how political the storms will get. With the gutting cuts at NOAA and NWS, forecasts will be degraded... fewer weather balloon launches (this impacts air traffic control too, btw), staff reductions at NWS, less satellite data, canceled contracts, degraded insights on sea temperatures... mix in holiday travel, tornado warnings, and of course the big hurricanes that'll hit later this year... (and let's get started about FEMA cuts and their ability to respond...), sadly it will be just as easy for the left to blame the cuts for degraded weather forecasts and responses as it will be for the right to say the storm damage is the same as it would've been under lyin' Joe Biden.
(I had a similar thought about school shootings in the fall and if any will be blamed on the cancelled mental health programs at schools across the country)
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Staff at the Federal Emergency Management Agency were caught off-guard and left bewildered when the disaster relief agency’s new acting head David Richardson told personnel that he was previously unaware the United States has a hurricane season, which started Sunday.
Richardson made the comments during a briefing Monday morning, multiple sources told CNN. While some interpreted the remark as a joke, others said it raised concerns about the recently appointed acting administrator, who has no prior experience managing natural disasters.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/02/politics/david-richardson-fema-head-unaware-hurricane-season
