Just to dispel a little bit of fearmongering, the National Weather Service, who is responsible for weather forecast after significant pushback actually got their budget slightly increased compared to last year. So hurricane and severe weather warning will mostly be OK (discounting tons of people who got fired and retire early this spring). What is truly dire currently is the research division ("Ocean and Atmospheric Research", OAR) at NOAA slated for complete annihilation, which would results in thousands of actual scientists losing their jobs, massive lost of institutional knowledge and gaps/shutdown in long-term observations (e.g., CO2 levels at Mauna Loa).

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Isn’t there also some issues around the Trump admin revoking crucial data access from a satellite? My understanding is that the satellite was nearing EOL anyway but the fact that nothing was done to replace that up til now seems like a major fumble on the part of the government. A lot of meteorologists I follow online seem pretty concerned about accuracy in their models as a result of it

[–] micnd90@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

Yes, you're thinking about this guy https://apnews.com/article/climate-hurricane-forecasting-noaa-satellites-74ab96aecbca46162e08341fd0941fbe

[–] RuthBaderGonesburg@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

Rip