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BumRushDaShow

(149,993 posts)
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 04:08 AM Mar 27

Concerns Over NOAA's Cuts Grow With Forecast for a Busy Hurricane Season

Source: Newsweek

Published Mar 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM EDT


A forecast for an active hurricane season this summer has heightened concerns that the Trump administration's cuts to the federal government's weather information system will undermine the ability to accurately track and predict tropical storms.

"Loss in hurricane forecast skill has the potential to cost lives and lead to billions in avoidable damage," Yale Climate Connections meteorologist Jeff Masters told Newsweek via email.

Masters is a former hurricane hunter with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which includes the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center. NOAA suffered sharp cuts as part of the Trump administration's effort to dramatically reduce federal government employment. Masters is among the former NOAA scientists and officials raising concerns about the effects those cuts might have on storm-tracking capabilities this hurricane season.

AccuWeather released its outlook for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season Wednesday and predicted three to six direct storm impacts, with Texas, Louisiana, western Florida, North Carolina and Atlantic Canada all facing higher-than-average risks. The report, which relies in part on NOAA data, called for between seven and 10 storms to strengthen into hurricanes and for three to five of those to become major storms. The 30-year historical average is seven hurricanes and three major storms.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/noaa-staff-cuts-busy-hurricane-season-2051063

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Concerns Over NOAA's Cuts Grow With Forecast for a Busy Hurricane Season (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Mar 27 OP
And FEMA funding is on the chopping block. Think. Again. Mar 27 #1
(Pun intended): The Perfect Storm(s) no_hypocrisy Mar 27 #2
Watch for some insurance companies closing up shop. Think. Again. Mar 27 #3
I have... littlemissmartypants Mar 27 #4
The knowledge and technology are available. Buddyzbuddy Mar 27 #6
Well, many in the South and Midwest wanted science out of schools Buddyzbuddy Mar 27 #5
God's will Blue Full Moon Mar 27 #7
That was Pat Robertson's shtick. Buddyzbuddy Mar 27 #8
Exactly Blue Full Moon Mar 27 #9

no_hypocrisy

(50,950 posts)
2. (Pun intended): The Perfect Storm(s)
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 04:34 AM
Mar 27

No NOAA and no FEMA.

And in Florida's case, no income tax to have the funds to rebuild and to feed the homeless.

littlemissmartypants

(27,069 posts)
4. I have...
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 06:15 AM
Mar 27

Ridden out more hurricanes than I care to remember. I would not have stayed home if my weather forecasts indicated otherwise.

Now, I don't believe that I can ever rely on those reports again but I'm just going to stay home. If I die in my house, on land that's been in my family for five generations, I will be grateful.

But only for the past and the very good life that I've had, up to this point.

❤️

Buddyzbuddy

(623 posts)
6. The knowledge and technology are available.
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 06:41 AM
Mar 27

I'm so sorry about the uncertainty that you'll experience because of evil, greedy creeps. I wish for a mild season on your behalf.

Buddyzbuddy

(623 posts)
5. Well, many in the South and Midwest wanted science out of schools
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 06:35 AM
Mar 27

and gubbamint. So let's leave it in mother nature's hands (aka God) and he/she will do what needs doin. It sounds like a plan to me.
For those of you thinkers in those areas, I'm sincerely sorry for what you might have to endure.
I really hate voluntary idiocy.

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