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re: Government cuts will impact hurricane forecasting.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 1:21 pm to TBoy
Posted on 6/4/25 at 1:21 pm to TBoy
quote:yeah no shite and meteorologist are still getting it wrong or take too long to finally get it right. There’s a handful of guys on here who are pretty accurate and make the right calls hours or even days before talking heads make an accurate call
Really? Where do TD posters get their information? They get it from satellite imagery, radar, readings from buoys, complex weather modeling, and other assets of the NWS. Take away the tech published by the NWS, it all goes away.
This post was edited on 6/4/25 at 1:22 pm
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Posted on 6/4/25 at 1:23 pm to BugAC
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Sounds like propaganda. Post the link with the source cited.
What makes you so farking lazy and helpless?
US Senate Committee and NPR
Posted on 6/4/25 at 1:24 pm to GumboPot
This guy didn't need government subsidies. Give him a drawing board and he was good to go.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 1:24 pm to GumboPot
what a loser...
Posted on 6/4/25 at 1:25 pm to Macintosh
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yeah no shite and meteorologist are still getting it wrong or take too long to finally get it right. There’s a handful of guys on here who are pretty accurate and make the right calls hours or even days before talking heads make an accurate call
I genuinely don't really get this complaint
Our smart guys here and the NWS guys look at models and try to apply them to the circumstances or blend them or what have you.
Almost everyone is looking at the same information and saying relatively the same stuff. Guys at NWS are probably going to be less quick to chat about what they're seeing because they're an official source of information that people base their lives around.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 1:27 pm to Macintosh
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There’s a handful of guys on here who are pretty accurate and make the right calls hours or even days before talking heads make an accurate call
Roger that. When storms are out there I check here and the website of Ed Roy.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 1:31 pm to TBoy
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I read the other day that the feds are quietly rehiring NWS meteorologists that DOGE recklessly fired. Maybe they will rehire enough to staff the offices.
The offices were always staffed for significant weather events. Most offices don't need to be open 24 hrs with full-time overnight staff. That's where cuts came in.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 1:34 pm to Pettifogger
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I genuinely don't really get this complaint
this is a site full of experts on everything, didnt you know? Complaints abound for any topic.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 1:35 pm to nvasil1
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The offices were always staffed for significant weather events. Most offices don't need to be open 24 hrs with full-time overnight staff. That's where cuts came in.
Ok. Any idea why they are hiring back?
Posted on 6/4/25 at 1:35 pm to GumboPot
democrats are such pussies
Posted on 6/4/25 at 1:36 pm to GumboPot
He mentions that we did not the power of a storm before it hit Acapulco. Why do we care, I am sure NOAA(Mexican version) was out there with their plane. Why do we have to provide that service for the world. Perhaps the 39% understaffing is for the international forecast. I am always suspect when a govt agency says they are understaffed. I usually assume they were overstaffed originally.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 1:38 pm to caro81
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this is a site full of experts on everything, didnt you know? Complaints abound for any topic.
I know, and I really do get being frustrated by weather forecasts that end up off
But you're predicting something entirely out of your control subject to massive variables some of which we still don't fully understand, so it's just bizarre to me that when a hurricane comes in 20 miles from where we thought it would 48 hours ago that's considered an L to some on here instead of a pretty big W.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 1:41 pm to GumboPot
They can't be more wrong than they already usually are.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 1:41 pm to CocomoLSU
Do it old school like Nash Roberts in New Orleans with a erasable black marker and a map. His accuracy tended to be very close to accurate.
He'd get his info straight from the Hurricane Hunters as well as the NWS
He'd get his info straight from the Hurricane Hunters as well as the NWS
Posted on 6/4/25 at 1:42 pm to GumboPot
17% less balloons is a big deal? And he only says south Florida forecasters, not NOAA
Posted on 6/4/25 at 1:52 pm to Pettifogger
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But you're predicting something entirely out of your control subject to massive variables some of which we still don't fully understand, so it's just bizarre to me that when a hurricane comes in 20 miles from where we thought it would 48 hours ago that's considered an L to some on here instead of a pretty big W.
When I worked for big oil, the weather dudes inside GOA division nailed forecast. They have to because decisions to evacuate and shut-in offshore platforms are critical money making decisions. The weather forecast published for public consumption has a much larger factor of safety, which it has to because it's mostly an ill-informed and/or under prepared audience.
This post was edited on 6/4/25 at 1:56 pm
Posted on 6/4/25 at 1:53 pm to GumboPot
I would fire his sorry, ignorant arse so fast his Lows would be occluded.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 1:57 pm to TBoy
you get that insider info from Reddit? Posted on 6/4/25 at 2:02 pm to GumboPot
Dude's a fool and couldn't forecast accurately before
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