Notices tagged with nws

"In four of the agency’s 122 weather forecasting offices around the country, there aren’t enough meteorologists to staff an overnight shift, according to the National Weather Service Employees Organization, a union representing agency workers. And at least several more forecast offices are expected to stop staffing an overnight shift as early as Sunday."

https://archive.ph/c6sIy#selection-1081.0-1093.354

#wx #disasters #NWS #weather

Stand Up for NOAA Research — The Time to Act Is Now

April 17, 2025

A Statement of the American Meteorological Society in Partnership with the National Weather Association

The administration’s 2026 budget passback plan, currently under consideration, eliminates NOAA’s Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) Office and its 10 research laboratories and 16 affiliated Cooperative Institutes, and moves the few remaining research efforts to different NOAA departments. If enacted, the passback would close all of NOAA’s weather, climate, and ocean Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes.

The speed at which these decisions are being made translates into little to no opportunity for feedback or consideration of long-term impacts. Without NOAA research, National Weather Service (NWS) weather models and products will stagnate, observational data collection will be reduced, public outreach will decrease, undergraduate and graduate student support will drop, and NOAA funding for universities will plummet. In effect, the scientific backbone and workforce needed to keep weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective will be drastically undercut, with unknown — yet almost certainly disastrous — consequences for public safety and economic health. As key stakeholders, AMS and NWA stand ready to provide our expertise so that the U.S. can maintain its competitiveness in the years ahead.

https://blog.ametsoc.org/2025/04/17/stand-up-for-noaa-research-the-time-to-act-is-now/

#noaa #nws #weather #forecasting #disasters #publicsafety

Bloomberg: US Weather Analysis for 21 States Goes Dark After Funding Lapse

"...eather analysis tools used by a wide array of businesses and government entities across the US have gone dark after funding for long-running regional climate hubs lapsed.

The websites for three US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration regional centers serving 21 states across the central and southeastern US — including the Dakotas, the Carolinas, Alabama and Georgia — have gone dark, according to service notifications posted on the centers’ home pages. The Southern Regional Climate Center, which serves Texas and Louisiana, among other states, has also lost funding, director John Neilsen-Gammon said in an interview Thursday...."

(paywall)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-17/us-weather-analysis-for-21-states-goes-dark-after-funding-lapse

#noaa #nws #weather #forecasting #wx

#NationalWeatherService no longer translating products for non-English speakers

"The #NWS is no longer providing language translations of its products, a change that experts say could put non-English speakers at risk of missing potentially life-saving warnings about extreme weather."

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/national-weather-service-no-longer-translating-products-for-non-english-speakers/article_783ade20-9f66-506d-8d69-abbf3e1d28d2.html

#News #WX #Weather #DOGE

The Hill: Trump administration cancels disaster training for meteorologists amid staffing, travel cuts

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5189128-trump-administration-cancels-disaster-training-national-weather-service-meteorologists/

#Politics #USpol #WX #disasters #weather #NOAA #NWS

Layoffs and potential closures of key facilities raise worries about NOAA's future

"That NOAA contractor also told NPR that the potential closure of the Maryland weather forecasting facility is especially concerning. "Anything that is getting canceled with the weather program is a terrible idea," the contractor says. "Loss of an entire facility would hamper our ability to do our jobs, predict the weather properly, help protect people and property."

McLean says if lease terminations happen, that would be "remarkably stupid," and that a closure in Maryland could mean the agency would have trouble providing accurate forecasts that serve a wide swath of people from mariners to pilots.  McLean says the products at the College Park facility "are distributed to the weather forecast offices across the country.""

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/06/nx-s1-5316917/noaa-trump-impact-layoffs

#weather #noaa #nws #disasters #hurricanes

This might just be a coincidence, but it certainly makes me wonder when the National Weather Service hourly forecast page for where I live now goes down for a few hours every afternoon. Not helpful when snow is coming.

#NOAA #NWS

Say goodbye to doppler radar and numerical forecasts when this happens...

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/03/doge-noaa-weather-building-leases-trump

#NOAA #NWS #weather #wx

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

The #NOAA and the #NWS are sadly headed for death's door now... :(

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/27/layoffs-hit-noaa-national-weather-service

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

Everyday, I check to make sure noaa.gov, climate.gov, and weather.gov are online. So far, so good. #noaa #nws

Why Private Forecasting Companies Can't Replace the National Weather Service

#CantReplace #NWS #WeatherData #UniqueRole #PublicVsPrivate

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-private-forecasting-companies-cant-replace-the-national-weather-service/

Ehh... crap.

Axios: Multiple sources told Axios on condition of anonymity that DOGE representatives were at NOAA's facilities in Silver Spring, Md., on Tuesday.

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/04/trump-nominates-noaa-head-neil-jacobs

#noaa #nws #politics #uspol #coup

👉🏼 Zu den Forderungen des Deutschen Volkshochschul-Verbands (DVV) zur BTW 2025: https://www.volkshochschule.de/btw25 #VHS #Deutschland #BTW25 #Forderung #BTW2025 #Wahl #Volkshochschule #Bildung #NWS #Weiterbildung #Strategie @volkshochschule @DeutscherBildungsserver @Bundesregierung @DIE_Bonn

❄️Update from the MCDOT SOC❄️
Due to the winter storm forecasted to start later tonight, the MCDOT Storm Operations Center will be activated at 9:00pm on Sunday, January 5, 2025.

❄️MCDOT's Winter Storm Information Portal ▶️ https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/snow/
#montgomerycountymd #winterweather #winterstorm #NWS #Sunday #StormOperationsCenter #maryland