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re: James Spann weighs in on upcoming NOAA and NWS cuts
Posted on 2/26/25 at 10:44 pm to greygoose
Posted on 2/26/25 at 10:44 pm to greygoose
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Do we really need 1000 meteorologists watching satellite footage of a hurricane and telling us where it's going? Am I wrong in my thinking that they all really on computer models these days?
You aren’t wrong about computer models are a thing but your description that of “1000 meteorologists” is misleading.
While they have meteorologists the main purpose is more to monitor atmosphere and yes weather patterns. In doing so they provide the data that allows private industry and research organizations to identify, track, study etc. Yes that includes hurricanes.
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Posted on 2/27/25 at 12:25 am to tigerpike
quote:quote:You’re a special brand of stupid if you actually believe this.
Project 2025 which is not Trump-affiliated
Prove it it’s affiliated to Trump and make sure you use the correct definition of “affiliated” to not be a special kind of stupid when proving your statement.
quote:
af-fil.i•at•ed | a'file,adad | adjective
(of a subsidiary group or a person) officially attached or connected to an
organization
New Oxford American Dictionary
affiliated | a'filiertid | adjective (of a subsidiary group or a person) officially attached or connected to an
organization
Oxford Dictionary of English
If you had said that to someone stating that Project 2025 is not affiliated with its parent organization The Heritage Foundation you would have been correct.
This post was edited on 2/27/25 at 12:46 am
Posted on 2/27/25 at 1:13 am to Jim Rockford
Just wait till tornado season and a portion of the SE US gets wrecked due to lack of warning and emergency shelters
Posted on 2/27/25 at 2:29 am to Luke
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Just wait till tornado season and a portion of the SE US gets wrecked due to lack of warning and emergency shelters
so…spring every year since forever?
Posted on 2/27/25 at 7:03 am to SloaneRanger
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Doesn’t seem like an area we need to cut
It all needs to be cut...some more than others...but all.
Posted on 2/27/25 at 7:04 am to Jim Rockford
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Like who?
Any halfway decent AI?
It's all computer models anyway.
Posted on 2/27/25 at 7:17 am to Jim Rockford
quote:Birmingham shite no matter here brah.
WBMA chief meteorologist James Spann
Posted on 3/8/25 at 6:26 am to Jim Rockford
quote:LINK
The layoffs that hit about 800 NOAA employees last week will hamstring the agency's fleet of hurricane research aircraft, experts warn.
The now-thinly staffed team of flight directors, engineers, scientists and mechanics means NOAA will struggle to maintain a 24-hour-a-day tempo of flying its modified Gulfstream jet and aging WP-3 research aircraft, said Josh Ripp, who was laid off as a flight engineer since he was a probationary employee.
Ripp said the missing flights will translate into less accurate forecasts and greater risk for coastal residents who are used to having at least two to three days' warning of a hurricane's predicted landfall location.
He told Axios in an interview that the agency is now either short one person or is at just the level of personnel needed to staff 24/7 flight operations, which has been the desired tempo during past seasons.
However, that assumes no one gets sick or has a family emergency and cannot crew a flight. NOAA, he said, is now "playing the odds that everyone there is going to be fine all season."
Posted on 3/8/25 at 6:33 am to Jim Rockford
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The layoffs that hit about 800 NOAA employees last week will hamstring the agencys ability to lie about anthropogenic caused climate change, experts warn.
If they stick with forecasting and not promoting globalist shite, they won't miss the 800.
Posted on 3/8/25 at 6:45 am to Jim Rockford
Get rid of the Climate Change nuts at the NWS and call it a day.
Posted on 3/8/25 at 6:53 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
Adult males crying about Project 2025 on a college football message board in a NOAA thread is just pathetic
Posted on 3/8/25 at 7:27 am to Luke
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Just wait till tornado season and a portion of the SE US gets wrecked due to lack of warning and emergency shelters
I live in Oklahoma. We get so.e tornadoes and I've never heard of James Spann, I don't watch any storm chasers, snd havent watched the Weather Channel in at least a decade. I might look at a weather app once a week. Somehow I think I just might survive some meteorologist layoffs.
Quit being a drama queen.
This post was edited on 3/8/25 at 7:29 am
Posted on 3/8/25 at 10:50 am to tiggerfan02 2021
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Honestly you could probably cut 33%+ just by getting rid of all the "climate change" BS they are involved in, and nobody in the public would even notice a difference in the day-to-day things they do.
Every department could have its budget cut.
But the problem is the administrators who run these departments get to decide how to spend their budgets. Congress does not tell them that XX money goes to this and YY money goes to that. So then you get an administrator who removes funding for something controversial (and needed) and then the left can say "look Trump and Elon cut money for cancer research". Except they didnt cut any specific expenditures. The head of the department did it so there would be a talking point.
Posted on 3/8/25 at 10:54 am to When in Rome
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loosely based on Project 2025 which is not Trump-affiliated
I mean, he's literally following the playbook. TDS is as bad on the right as on the left. While the left believe he's one of the worst humans on this planet, the right believes ANYTHING that man says despite him being such an impressive liar.
Posted on 3/8/25 at 10:55 am to Jim Rockford
A weatherman supporting NOAA and NWS programs.
I’m shocked!!
I’m shocked!!
Posted on 3/8/25 at 10:56 am to Turnblad85
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If they stick with forecasting and not promoting globalist shite
Just report on the science you believe? Yes, good call.
Posted on 3/8/25 at 11:17 am to mmmmmbeeer
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I mean, he's literally following the playbook. TDS is as bad on the right as on the left. While the left believe he's one of the worst humans on this planet, the right believes ANYTHING that man says despite him being such an impressive liar.
"Project 2025" is a rightist position paper put out by the Heritage Foundation.
If you don't think there will be overlap with it and a rightist administration you are a moron.
Posted on 3/8/25 at 11:23 am to Pettifogger
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Adult males crying about Project 2025 on a college football message board in a NOAA thread is just pathetic
I like how you posted this and mmmmcreampie dove in headfirst a couple hours later
Posted on 3/8/25 at 4:12 pm to crazyLSUstudent
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The NOAA should be dismantled and many of its functions eliminated, sent to other agencies, privatized, or placed under control of states and territories.” Doesn’t define which programs will be eliminated.
This doesn’t say anything at all about eliminating the majority of NOAA services.
Nobody’s gonna lose their precious satellite images
Posted on 3/8/25 at 4:50 pm to Jim Rockford
Are you that fricking stupid?
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