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   Jason Stiff (jasonstiff@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 11:04:15 JST Jason Stiff

   I've been a meteorologist for over 30 years, I worked for the National Weather Service my 4 undergraduate years, and I loved it.

   There are NO good reasons for firing hardworking, already understaffed NWS/NOAA personnel, and it WILL cost lives!

   The potential "savings" are so small compared to the benefit we get from the NWS saving lives and property daily.

   STOP this madness, trump and musk! You have no idea how far-reaching the ramifications of this are.

   #weather #NWS #NOAA #NationalWeatherService

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     Jason Stiff (jasonstiff@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 08:19:20 JST Jason Stiff

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     Some NWS offices are already suspending their twice-daily weather balloon / radiosonde launches because they won't have the personnel. What difference does that make? If we don't get data from the various levels of the atmosphere, then the numerical weather prediction models won't have as much information, which means the computer guidance will be less accurate, which will then lead to less accurate human forecasts. These incompetent, unqualified people who are firing hard-working scientists indiscriminately don't have the first clue what these cuts will do. I used to launch these radiosondes myself in college while I worked for the NWS. STOP THIS NONSENSE!

     #weather #NOAA #NWS #NationalWeatherService