#weather-forecasting

#weather-forecasting

The National Weather Service (NWS) experienced severe staffing shortages due to federal workforce reductions, impeding their ability to manage critical weather forecasts during catastrophic flooding.

Ted Cruz ensured the Republican spending bill slashed funding for weather forecasting, then went on vacation to Greece while Texas faced deadly flooding. Cruz visited Greece on Saturday after a flash flood killed over 100 people in Texas, including children at a camp, during which he promised lawmakers' response upon his return. Cruz acknowledged that something went wrong with the warning system for the flood, emphasizing the need for a better system of alerts to get children to safety.

Accurate weather forecasts alone aren't enough to save lives; local authorities must interpret warnings, communicate them, and assist communities in evacuating effectively.

Knowing what's going on inside a storm is crucial to knowing what's going to happen to people in its path, meteorologists said.

Doppler radar has revolutionized how we've been able to issue warnings... Losing radar capabilities would take us back in time by four decades, says Jana Houser.

People ask how a bigger computer improves the weather forecast. One big thing this new computer will allow us to do in the near future is to be able to produce 14-day forecasts with a similar kind of accuracy than we can today for seven, eight, nine days.

La Nina is a natural climate pattern that influences global weather marked by cooler than average ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific, with pronounced effects in winter.