Re: Alan Gerard
Posted by Chris in Tampa on 3/23/2025, 12:42 am
Jeff Masters was sharing those too. I don't get the insanity of it. Destroy the NWS, but as Masters' says, it impacts private companies too. So everyone's forecasts will suffer. They won't be able to point to a random private company doing better than the NWS as a reason to privatize as everyone will have worse forecasts due to data that isn't as good. But if anything that was being done was properly thought out, it wouldn't be done in the first place. This is what taking a chainsaw to everything does.

Getting sonde data over water from the aircraft into the models was always important for steering currents. I took land observations for granted. Longer term hurricane forecasts will be less accurate as a result. More people might have to be evacuated at times due to a bit greater uncertainty. That costs areas a lot of money to evacuate. But they don't think about that either. Everything they touch becomes a mess.



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