Anonymous Coward User ID: 39114454 United States 05/24/2013 09:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Weather Service Systems Crumbling as Extreme Weather Escalates This is an interesting article I found on the Climate Change website run by Daz Smith, a remote viewer who works with Courtney Brown of the Farsight Institute. [ link to www.climatechange2013.com] Here's the beginning of the article which documents several instances of issues the National Weather Service is currently experiencing: "As painfully obvious from the recent events in Oklahoma, tornado season is in full gear. Meanwhile, hurricane season is a week away. Yet budget woes and multiple system failures at the National Weather Service in the past week, not to mention staffing shortages, are raising concerns that its ability to warn the public of hazardous weather could crack at any time.
In the past 5 days alone, a telecommunications outage near Chicago made it difficult for NWS forecasters to issue warnings, a major weather satellite failed, the website for the entire NWS Southern Region went down, and a NWS official in tornado alley declined to launch a weather balloon citing budget concerns.
These problems are symptomatic of insufficient funding and dated infrastructure, advocates for more generous NWS budgets say. What follows is an overview of the problems NWS has encountered, just since Sunday..." |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 39114454 United States 05/24/2013 10:23 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Weather Service Systems Crumbling as Extreme Weather Escalates LOL - the original source was a Washington Post Blog: [ link to www.washingtonpost.com] |
JUST HERE
User ID: 25610447 United States 05/24/2013 10:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Weather Service Systems Crumbling as Extreme Weather Escalates :glp sign: |