Reducing “meteorological” financing threatens the safety of Americans in the face of hurricanes

With the sunset over the Gulf of Mexico, an American government plane approached the new “Milton” hurricane, which was newly formed, and immediately began to broadcast live reports on the hurricane after receiving the first radar data via satellites.

In just 24 hours, Milton turned into a fifth -class hurricane with a wind of 180 miles per hour, to become the most violent in the Gulf for nearly two decades, but despite its destroyed strength, it was not surprising, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in America launched early warnings, which provided enough time to evacuate the population from the areas threatened on the coast of Florida.

However, these warnings coincided with disturbing government decisions, with the expectation of another active hurricane season until the end of this year, where the administration of the President, Donald Trump, is working through what is known as the “Governmental Efficiency Authority” to reduce the funding of the National Administration of Oceanic and Air Force, which includes the National Meteorological Authority, hurricane hurricanes and many other programs necessary for those who predict hurricanes.

Surprising hurricanes

In the absence of the tools of the National Administration of Oceanic and Atmospheric Country, which performs 6.3 billion at a daily air monitoring, hurricanes that routinely monitor today may become a sudden, devastating hurricanes tomorrow.

Although the cost of meteorological services for every American citizen does not exceed four dollars annually, the investment return of it is 8,000%, according to estimates in 2024.

It is ridiculous that the reducing the support of this vital administration is promoted as a step towards “economic efficiency”, while the private sectors are unable to provide similar services.

Damage

Within three months, the Government Efficiency Department caused severe damage to the National Meteorological Authority, which runs 122 local offices of air predictions throughout the United States, equivalent to more than a decade of losing its working power. Some offices have lost 60% of their employees, including the entire administration teams.

The 24 -hour weather and meteorological services offices per day, seven days per week, and throughout the year, are the source of all the climatic warnings that Americans receive through the phone, television, and radio, as without these warnings and data, local air broadcasting programs and private weather applications cannot work.

In light of the suffering of dozens of local air predictions in order to maintain the continuity of its operations around the clock, the National Administration of Oceanic and Air Country has issued a recent distress call, asking the remaining employees to remain in their positions temporarily to save the remainder of the critical warning network in the country.

Nearly half of the local air predictions offices suffer from a severe shortage of employees, at a vacancy rate of 20% or more, and many of them are disrupted for a part of the day, which increases the risk of not monitoring weather conditions and the survival of the population without protection or warning.

Weather balloons

Changing employees is the latest step from an air agency struggling to survive, and the “balloons” are usually launched – a basic pillar of data collection for more than 60 years – twice a day from 100 sites throughout North America and the Caribbean and Pacific region, but recently, some of these “balloons” trips have been shown so that a limited number of employees can pay attention to other priorities.

The “balloons” of the weather proved significantly in the weather forecasts even in the time of satellite, to the extent that the launch operations that take place twice a day are added to it, up to four launch operations per day before the threats of major hurricanes.

The additional “balloons” increase the confidence of weather forecasts, and allows decisive decisions to be made, such as evacuation orders early.

As a new hurricane season approached, the launch of the “balloons” decreased by 15 to 20% in the country, which is being thrown into the country in a risky experience that no one wanted to go through.

Destroy decades of progress

The research and air prediction are closely related within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the White House in the new budget documents, issued last Friday, suggested the cancellation of the research pavilion of the National Oceanic Administration, which is the Ocean and Air Force Research Office that provides very important support to hurricane hurricanes.

The abolition of the ocean and atmosphere research office can destroy decades of progress in the field of prediction of hurricanes, which is one of the stories of great success in prediction science, and now the fate of the research wing of the National Oceanic Administration and atmosphere in the hands of Congress has now become. On the New York Times

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A reliable prediction

30 years ago, meteorologists could not monitor hurricanes until after they were formed, and as soon as they were formed, we were lucky if we predicted the possibility of reaching land two or three days ago.

However, our prediction models – developed by their scientists and computers and high -speed computers – have become routinely and reliable in hurricanes, and sometimes a week or more before the first grapes of clouds. After two or three days, we can reduce hurricane expectations to a boycott or two provinces.

. 6.3 billion air monitoring operations conducted by the National Oceanic and Attrads Administration daily.

. Although the cost of meteorological services for every American citizen does not exceed 4 dollars annually, the investment return of it is 8,000%.