Notices by AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org), page 2

NPR: Trump's Forest Service cuts have people in tinder dry New Mexico on edge https://www.kpbs.org/news/national/2025/04/17/trumps-forest-service-cuts-have-people-in-tinder-dry-new-mexico-on-edge

#wildfires #politics #usfs #NMwx

@exador23 Oh yeah, I have a long hemostat specifically for that kind of work in radios. Haven't used it in awhile, but when I need it, sure handy.

@exador23 Ouch! Hmm, remind me to never buy one of those, I hate overly complex and easy to break equipment.

@exador23 Oooh, coffee machine autopsy, nice. Also... why so many tubes?!?!! LOL.

@exador23 Congrats!!!

@colo_lee 😱

@colo_lee (although, now that you mention it, I *have* seen photos of the aftermath of a mountain-lion vs. goat attack, and now that you mention it... innards everywhere), with a friend who lives in mountain lion territory.

Hmm, they're drastically cutting the NOAA/NWS, so there go the weather forecasts... and they've raised massive tariffs on tea, so finding tea leaves to predict the weather is going to be hard. Anyone have a source for goat entrails? #wx #politics

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

"Banana industry works for tariff exemption... Tom Stenzel, executive director of BANA, said he and BANA members are working with government leaders to gain an exemption for bananas. ... Stenzel said the Trump administration has stated that one of the purposes of reciprocal tariffs is to bring more business to the United States, and since bananas and other tropical fruits cannot be commercially grown here, the tariffs don’t do this.... It will likely also cause retail banana prices to rise. "

https://www.bluebookservices.com/banana-industry-works-for-tariff-exemption/

#politics #bananas #tariffs

Ham radio used to call in help on bicycle accident in Northern California in February (from an area with no cell service). #hamradio

https://arrl.informz.net/informzdataservice/onlineversion/ind/bWFpbGluZ2luc3RhbmNlaWQ9MzMxMDQ5OSZzdWJzY3JpYmVyaWQ9NTIwMzU5MzYx#Bookmark_A9EDA1170

The sky is falling (at Lupicia Tea store, a supplier of Japanese and Chinese teas in Hawaii/Ala Moana mall).

(yes, due to tariffs)

#tea #food #tariffs #politics

Accuweather: Extended heatwave in India, Pakistan to test survivability limits, with temperatures reaching Death Valley levels

For hundreds of millions of people living in India and Pakistan the early arrival of summer heatwaves has become a terrifying reality that’s testing survivability limits and putting enormous strain on energy supplies, vital crops and livelihoods.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/extended-heatwave-in-india-pakistan-to-test-survivability-limits-with-temperatures-reaching-death-valley-levels/1765685

#heatwaves #india #pakistan #climateemergency

LA Times: House Democrats demand briefing after immigration agents try to enter L.A. elementary schools

...“If you falsely claim to be conducting welfare checks while actually targeting children for deportation, you undermine willingness to cooperate with law enforcement, provoke fear, and undermine public trust,” the lawmakers wrote, also demanding that the agency “desist from immigration enforcement activity” involving children who do not pose a public safety threat...

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-14/house-democracts-demand-briefing-immigration-agents-enter-la-elementary-schools

#politics #fascism #ice #children

If you want the full Coachella experience, looks like the best way is go out into your car and sit there for 12 hours without moving, with the heater up on full, and pee in a cup. #Coachella

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgFUu6Zv9nI

Broader, in the commercial industry, they are seeing 80% losses in hives ("catastrophic" losses).

So whatever is hitting the commercial beekeepers is not (yet) hitting us....

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-honey-bee-deaths-soar-grocery-store-bills-take-hit-rcna199066

Whew, finally checked all the various hives we've rescued. Loss over the winter was approx. 50%, most of them to ants (which is typical for us). We're up from that now due to a lot of swarm captures. The hives that survived are all extremely strong, we left them extra honey in an additional super in fall, and it really made a difference. The fix to the ants would be to visit all the hives after rain and treat the stands to keep ants off (which is a LOT of work... considering this is just an occasional hobby/favor to people we know with avocado groves/etc.) . #beekeeping

The Guardian: US economy
Hedge fund billionaire says US may face ‘worse than a recession’ from Trump tariffs

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/13/ray-dalio-trump-tariffs-recession

#Politics #tariffs #recession #depression

Massive rally in LA today with Bernie Sanders.

LA Times: At packed L.A. rally, Bernie Sanders says U.S. facing ‘extraordinary danger’

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-04-12/bernie-sanders-fighting-oligarchy-tour-los-angeles-aoc-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-joan-baez-neil-young-maggie-rogers

#Politics #protests #bernie