Foreign meteorology experts told NBC News that the Balloon Weather Service is launched from the left forecasters on the fragile floor last week, where the United States was exposed to cold and hurricanes.
Severe storms brought dozens of hurricanes to the center of the United States starting on Thursday, and Easter traveled. TWISTERS was reported in Oklahoma, Texas and Nebraska, and the storm system brought several inches from snow to parts of Colorado and The cold is the size of the baseball to the Wisconsin.
Storms were one of the first tests for weather forecasts during the harsh weather Since the balloon versions have been cut off In places like Grand Junction, Colorado; Omaha, Nebraska; Green Bay, Wisconsin, among other sites. The launch of the balloon is dense tasks, and many local offices have been forced to reduce them after the Trump administration reduced the size of NWS by providing an early retirement and Display some test workers.
Last Thursday, Six hurricanes followed by East Nebraska Before seven in the evening until 9 pm, Chris Vagasky, meteorological expert and balloon expert in the weather, said that the national weather service issued the appropriate hurricane alerts at the right time, but this additional data available only from balloons did not help determine the threat of Tornado sooner.
“The foreclosure in the weather service is known to what they are looking for on the radar and other data to issue the correct warnings in time, but the presence of additional data gives an indication of low -level wind cutting or moisture helps you give you confidence when issuing these warnings,” said Vagasky.
Vagaski, director of the Wesonic Research Program, a network of weather stations throughout the Wisconsin state, said that the local prediction office near Umaha published a special weather balloon at 3 pm local time, which employees often do before thunderstorms.
At that time, the balloon data was “similar to the cold threat”, Wagasky said. “There was a lot of instability in the atmosphere and some wind cutting, but the wind cutting was not what you usually see at the Tornado event.”
Before the recruitment discounts, the weather service had released the last balloon regularly at 7 pm, just as Tornadoes began to appear in Nebraska. On Thursday, he did not.
“We were unable to see how the atmosphere developed between 3 pm and 7 pm to understand how the atmosphere developed so that we can now get hurricanes instead of cold,” said Vagasky.
The National Weather Service said in a statement that it is dedicated to the service of American societies effectively and continued to do so, even with a few versions of the weather balloon.
“The national weather service is obligated to provide accurate and time expectations and save life despite speculation,” said Kim Dostre, Director of Communications at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “Through the strategic transformation, the re -customization of employees, and the updated service standards, NWS guarantees flexibility and the continuity of important jobs. Reports that indicate otherwise are not respected for many weather scientists who work tirelessly to produce the best weather data in the world.”
NWS started Reducing the versions of the weather in February. In March, the service He said that he will lose some of the launch operations in Albani, New York and Gray, Maine. The launch operations were temporarily canceled in Omaha, Nebraska, Rubid City, South Dakota. also Limited trips At sites in Colorado, Michigan, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin Wuwang.
On Thursday, weather service said the weather balloon The versions can be canceled from any of about 100 sites.
“Until another notice, the national weather service (NWS) may reduce or suspend the launch of the radio devices scheduled in the NWS higher air sites due to employment restrictions or operational priorities,” said Mike Hopkins, the director of surface air notes and higher air at NWS. “The offices (offices) will continue to make special notes because the resources allow them and in response to emerging air events.”
Matt Lanza, the meteorologist in Houston writes for Saleh Eywall BlogHe said that the decision means that meteorologists will not know when the data will be available.
Lanza said in a message: “This will certainly lead to the deterioration of weather forecasts in addition to the lack of guarantees using meteorologists on any day,” Lanza said in a message. “This is very important. It is impossible to know how important, because every day it will be a new roll of blossom.”
Storms generally track from west to east in the United States, so weather balloons often provide data about what can be expected in the direction of the wind in hours or coming days.
Nick Bassil, director of the state’s weather center for the university in Albani in New York, said the weather balloons are the spine, or the earthly truth, to predict.
Bassil said: “Our center was providing weather forecast for hunting Easter eggs sponsored by local cities … We are unexpectedly dealing with rain this morning that we did not expect.” “I do not say that this is because of the gossip of the weather, but this makes us wonder, hey, were our expectations a little worse because we miss that important data on the source?”
Employment discounts have effects on national weather offices outside the release of the weather balloon.
Last week, the Sacramento Service Office, California, sent a memorandum to local media partners saying that he will not answer public phones, that it will reduce the issuance of discussions of the region’s predictions once daily and that it will reduce employment overnight, from other changes.
These discounts prompted former national weather service director Joe on Friday, who lives in Edmund, Oklahoma, to write to the members of the Senate and his representative in Congress, saying in an interview that he is expected to worsen with fewer weather balloons and “Swiss cheese” employees.
“They can talk about restructuring, changing the standards of work and all of that. This is all Gobbledygook, all this bureaucratic,” he said, adding that he pays more attention to the radar himself, from his home in Tornado alley. “I feel – threatened is the wrong word – I feel uncomfortable a little more today … Be a meteorologist, I see it closely more than I used to.”
This article was originally published on NBCNEWS.com
