Tag: NWS
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Predicted Doom? Alaska Storm Exposed by Weather Balloon Cuts
Overview: A Storm Forecast Undermined by Data Gaps The deadly storm that battered western Alaska over the weekend exposed a troubling weakness in weather forecasting: a shortage of weather balloon data. Officials say that budget-driven cuts and staffing reductions have reduced the frequency of balloon launches, leaving forecasters with less information to feed into computer…
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Alaska Storm Forecasts Angled by Balloon Data Gaps
Introduction: a storm that exposed data gaps A powerful, deadly storm battered western Alaska over the weekend, and early analyses are pointing to a concrete culprit behind forecast surprises: a gaping hole in weather balloon coverage. The cuts that followed the Trump administration’s push to shrink government operations left the National Weather Service with fewer…
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Predictions for deadly Alaska storm may have suffered due to DOGE cuts
Overview: A storm and the data gaps that followed The powerful weekend storm that battered western Alaska exposed a troubling flaw in the forecasting system: significant gaps in weather balloon data. Officials and meteorologists point to funding-driven reductions as a contributing factor to these gaps, which hampered the ability of computer models to predict the…