Tag: NWS
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Minnesota Blizzard Update: Snow Totals Across the State as of Sunday Morning
Overview: A Holiday Blizzard Strikes Minnesota The Twin Cities and much of Minnesota faced a holiday blizzard that coated roads with snow and created treacherous driving conditions across the state. Local authorities issued travel advisories and weather services issued NEXT Alerts to help residents stay safe during the winter blast. As crews continue clearing highways,…
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Minnesota Snow Totals From Holiday Blizzard: Latest Snowfall Across the State
Summary of the Holiday Blizzard Itself A powerful winter storm swept across Minnesota over the holiday weekend, delivering heavy snowfall in many parts of the state and creating treacherous driving conditions. Meteorologists and local stations issued alerts urging residents to stay off the roads when possible and to monitor road conditions as crews deployed plows…
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Minnesota Snow Totals from the Holiday Blizzard: What Fell Across the State
Overview of the Holiday Blizzard A winter storm swept across Minnesota over the holiday weekend, blanketing much of the state with snow and creating treacherous travel conditions on several highways. Local weather teams issued alerts to help residents stay safe as accumulating snow reduced visibility and covered roadways. Here’s what the National Weather Service and…
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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…