Notices tagged with noaa, page 3

"When tornados recently swept through Missouri and Tennessee and Kentucky, there were a few reports about local NWS office staffing shortages. The reports were explained away the next day by Caroline Leavitt at the White House saying that the cuts had not affected 'overnight' staffing at local offices."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #Texas #NWS #NOAA
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/this-is-what-happens-when-everything

"The journalists also note that the Trump administration's 2026 budget calls for eliminating 'all of NOAA’s weather and climate research labs along with institutes jointly run with universities around the country.'”

#Trump #Texas #NWS #NOAA
/11

"Follow up reporting proved her statement about local NWS offices to be a lie, but reports about her lies had become so numerous that the one about the NWS just disappeared down the memory-hole with all her other lies.

The tornado that tore through Kentucky happened back in late May. It killed 19 people, according to the Louisville Courier Journal. Do you remember that number? I didn’t. I had to look it up."

#Trump #Texas #NWS #NOAA
/13

"Watch the numbers of people killed in the Texas flooding increase over the next few days. It is hurricane season, so watch for the coverage of those storms and their body counts.

Everybody will forget the numbers in Kentucky and Texas except the families and friends of the dead."

#Trump #Texas #NWS #NOAA
/14

"CNN analyst Juliette Kayyem: 'This is not true. As I said CNN, it isn't at all clear what system Noem is talking about here. There are no major planned upgrades of NWS technology that would explain any gap in notification, and it has been hit hard by DOGE and BBB.'”

#Trump #Texas #NWS #NOAA
/17

"Reporter: Why was the NWS not pinging their phones before 7? Was it a fundamental failure of the federal government’s responsibility to keep us safe? [Kristi] Noem: 'Trump is currently upgrading the technology in the NWS. We needed to renew this ancient system that has been left in place with the federal government.'”

~ Ron Filipkowski

#Trump #Texas #NWS #NOAA
/16

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weekend-in-politics-bulletin-a79

"Marjorie Taylor Greene, who claimed following Hurricane Helene, which decimated parts of North Carolina last year, that Democrats can 'control the weather' was ridiculed at the time by President Biden, who called her falsehoods 'irresponsible.' Sadly, those conspiracy theories were being circulated on social media before Texans could process what had happened."

#Trump #Texas #NWS #NOAA
/18

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-ed6

"Greene announced in a Saturday night Tweet that she would be introducing a bill that banned 'weather modification and geoengineering.'”

#Trump #Texas #NWS #NOAA
/19

"And experts have warned us all year that these cuts would make weather predictions and early warnings more difficult: as PBS wrote, 'Meteorologists and climate scientists are raising alarms about major cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, saying they will harm the country’s ability to forecast and respond to major weather events and put lives at risk.'”

#Trump #Texas #NWS #NOAA
/21

David Pepper warns that something's getting lost in the conversation about Texas and Trump administration cuts to NWS and NOAA, and that something that's getting lost "invites tragedy and loss in the long term."

As he says,

"There is no doubt there have been cuts to the overall workforce and capacity of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Weather Service, along with a downgrading of FEMA."

#Trump #Texas #NWS #NOAA
/20

https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/the-dangerous-ideology-driving-the

As Ron Filipkowski says today, he and Meidas took a great deal of heat yesterday for connecting the Trump administration's steep cuts in weather-forecasting services to the unfolding tragedy in Texas.

He notes that immediately his inbox began to fill with DMs from trolls who were outraged at the suggestion that cuts made by Trump's administration could have played a role in lack of preparedness for a flash flood.

#Trump #DOGE #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #Texas
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/we-make-no-apologies-for-being-1st

He also foresaw — correctly — that Trump defenders would try to flood social media with diversionary narratives about how anyone but the Trump administration bore primary responsibility for the lack of preparedness. Texas officials, local authorities: you name it.

I saw this same dynamic in my own feed here, and I pushed back against it, because I knew that this defensive tactic was designed to muddy the waters and exonerate Trump and his cuts.

#Trump #DOGE #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #Texas
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Certainly it's entirely within the realm of possibility that Texas officials played a role in not preparing for disaster. But to recognize this must not be to ignore the dangerous effect of steep cuts in our weather preparedness systems — cuts coming directly from the Trump administration.

As Filipkowski writes,

#Trump #DOGE #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #Texas
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(continued from /4):

"prompting some experts to question whether staffing shortages made it harder for the forecasting agency to coordinate with local emergency managers as floodwaters rose.

"The National Weather Service’s San Angelo office, which is responsible for some of the areas hit hardest by Friday’s flooding, was missing a senior hydrologist, staff forecaster and meteorologist in charge…."

#Trump #DOGE #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #Texas
/5

"Now the NYT and other media organizations have joined in with stories documenting how cuts in NWS and other federal agencies may have made this tragedy much, much worse."

Here's Christopher Flavelle at New York Times:

"Crucial positions at the local offices of the National Weather Service were unfilled as severe rainfall inundated parts of Central Texas on Friday morning,"

#Trump #DOGE #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #Texas
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/politics/texas-floods-warnings-vacancies.html

"The Weather Service’s nearby San Antonio office, which covers other areas hit by the floods, also had significant vacancies, including a warning coordination meteorologist and science officer, Mr. Fahy [legislative director for NWS Employees Organization] said. Staff members in those positions are meant to work with local emergency managers to plan for floods, including when and how to warn local residents and help them evacuate."

#Trump #DOGE #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #Texas
/6

"Since January, the NWS—a branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—has reduced its workforce by nearly 600 people as a direct result of staffing cuts ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, as part of Trump's mission to eviscerate numerous federal agencies."

~ Brett Wilkins

#Trump #DOGE #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #Texas
/7

https://www.alternet.org/texas-flooding/

"The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been stripped down so much it can barely respond to emergencies, yet it’s funding detention centers such as 'Alligator Alcatraz' in the Florida Everglades."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #DOGE #NWS #NOAA #Texas #FEMA
/9

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-a-national-reckoning

"Many of the fired NWS staffers were specialized climate scientists and weather forecasters."

Ron Filipkowski adds,

"Rural areas hit hardest by catastrophic storms are the same areas now in danger of losing their hospitals after Trump’s Medicaid cuts just passed."

#Trump #DOGE #NWS #NOAA #FEMA #Medicaid #Texas
/8

https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3lt7srdzkwc2y

"The National Weather Service’s San Angelo office, responsible for some of the areas hardest hit by Friday’s flooding, is missing a senior hydrologist, staff forecaster, and meteorologist."

#Trump #DOGE #NWS #NOAA #Texas #FEMA
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