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At 4 PM (on 4/14/25) Weather West (Dr. Daniel Swain) is discussing the impacts of the destruction of the National Oceanographic Atmospheric Association and the National Weather Service.
#CAwx #CaliforniaWeather #NOAA #NWW #WeatherForecasts #ExtremeWeather #NorCalWx #Weather
A list of notes on the chaos in the NOAA from the Live Chat by Weather West (Dr. Daniel Swain):
Staff in the Sacramento NWS office is critically understaffed. Monterey office has lost people and are understaffed. Weather balloons to gather vital info twice a day are not being launched due to understaffing, which will degrade weather forecasting. In Canduca (sp?) Kentucky the building of the weather office cannot pay for backed up toilets and all maintenance has been fired. Plus, it forced staff to use an outside porta potty in an active hurricane warning. Hazardous wastes trained staff have been fired and now offices have been shut down due to no one being able to safely dispose of the waste. Some staff have been fired 3x with the firings and rehiring. US global change research program on observed and expected impact of climate change report--the company doing the report were fired, even though it was congressionally mandated.
More notes from the live chat by Weather West (Dr. Daniel Swain) on the chaos being wrought upon the National Weather Service:
Dept of Commerce terminated an agreement with a university regarding weather/climate research stated "this cooperative agreement promotes exaggerated climate threats...promoting anxiety..."
A doc from the White House states that the proposed close the NOAA office that does and funds research on weather and oceanographic. NASA is targeted for larger cuts regarding planetary research. Many cooperative research centers will be closed. Proposed is the canceling the partnership between NASA and NOAA, which would end weather satellite updates.
The stated reason to end all climate research is to "eliminate the federal government's support of woke" ideology.
And more notes from the live chat with Dr. Daniel Swain (Weather West) on the chaos and destruction of NOAA and National Weather Services by DOGE and Trump Regime:
Dept of Defense will no longer include climate change in their plans.
If research funding is replaced by corporations replaces the funding, it will cause bias in the research.
No philanthropy can afford to fund to replace all the weather services throughout the USA.
Defunding the weather balloons means that data to predict a tornado or the landing location of a hurricane will be gone.
@visionsofnapa Thank you for taking and sharing notes! :)
@deewani You are welcome.
& in the Q&A, he mentions the following very practical info, which I'll deploy especially in convos with people who are apathetic, or my political opposites:
he said that the lack of trustworthy weather data will likely mean that many pilots who care about passenger safety will, increasingly, decide to land elsewhere, to avoid risky weather at a destination airport.
Good luck with your flight-dependent business or vacation plans, everybody! #NOAA