Replies to post #533016 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[fuagf]

You were playing politics. Patently obvious we think differently. Don't bother coming back.

[blackhawks]

OK pearl clutcher, cut the shit and get off your fainting couch. There is nothing political about stating the facts and drawing conclusions. Connect the same facts, as outlined below, to a Dem president and you'd be as quiet as a mouse pissing on cotton. Or, more likely, calling for her impeachment.

Real politicization? Read what Noem alleged and the NOAA response:

“When President Trump took office…he said he wanted to fix and is currently upgrading the technology. And the National Weather Service has indicated that with that and NOAA, that we needed to renew this ancient system that has been left in place with the federal government for many, many years, and that is the reforms that are ongoing,” Noem said.

A NOAA official said they did not know specifically what Noem was referring to, but that upgrades to agency computer networks, radars and modeling systems are underway. Some of those upgrades have been taking place since before Trump took office for his second term.

Perhaps most notably, the Austin-San Antonio office is short a warning coordination meteorologist, a role that serves as a crucial, direct link between forecasters and emergency managers.

Both vacancies in Austin-San Antonio were the result of early retirement incentives offered by the Trump administration to shrink the size of the federal government, a NOAA official told CNN.

Other NWS offices around the country are far worse off, operating with such thin staffing that they no longer operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Many NWS forecast offices have ceased launching their twice-a-day weather balloons, which provide critical data that can alert forecasters to the potential for flooding and other hazardous weather.

And America’s forecasting prowess could soon slip backwards, experts warn, if the Trump administration’s 2026 budget proposal is enacted — just as the country needs to push the limits on what weather models are capable of.

The budget seeks to eliminate all of NOAA’s weather and climate research labs along with institutes jointly run with universities around the country. The entire research division of NOAA would be eliminated under the proposal, which is subject to congressional approval.

This would shut down research and development of new forecasting technologies, including computer modeling and severe weather warning scenarios, and hamper prediction of hazards including flash floods.

One of the NOAA labs slated to be shut down is the National Severe Storms Lab in Norman, Oklahoma, which works to improve flash flood forecasting among other hazards from severe thunderstorms.

The NOAA research cuts would come just as human-caused climate change is resulting in more frequent and intense downpours like the ones that led to this tragedy in Texas.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/05/climate/texas-flooding-forecast-response

[arizona1]

You and I think differently

The Most MAGA Place On The Planet: The State Of West Virginia

West Virginians love Trump—and he's screwing them anyway

West Virginia is one of the Trumpiest states in the country, with President Donald Trump winning the state by a whopping 42 percentage points in the 2024 election. So you’d think—having delivered for Trump so big—that they’d be winning all sorts of victories.

And yet …

According to the Des Moines Register, Trump’s plan to revive shipbuilding in the United States by charging massive fees for China-linked ship visits to U.S. ports is causing coal inventory to swell, stoking uncertainty in the already embattled agriculture industry as exporters struggle to find ships to send goods abroad.

As a result, West Virginia coal mines are preparing to lay off miners as unsold coal piles up.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/23/2310864/-West-Virginians-love-Trump-and-he-s-screwing-them-anyway

[arizona1]

Concrete classless asshole!

Damn He has paved over Jackie Kennedy’s rose garden

— Mia Farrow (@miafarrow.bsky.social) 2025-07-05T20:06:53.375Z