Bay Area meteorological experts and politicians sound the alarm and have said that the National Weather Service cuts and the Oceanic and atmospheric national administration of the government’s Ministry of Efficiency are a bad service to the community.
In order to reduce public spending, the White House officials said that more than 600 employees with the NWS and the NOAA had been dismissed. Eugene Cordero, professor of the Meteorology and Climate Sciences Department at the State University of San Jose, said that this decision endangered people’s security.
“We must know when the rain is going to strike, how strong the winds are, the best possible data to help emergency stakeholders save lives. This is the result,” said Cordero.
During unleashed fires in southern California, NWS meteorologists provided critical data to help the crews to fight the inferthus that devastated the Pacific Palisades and Altadena.
The member of the Congress Jared Huffman, member of the American Committee for Natural Resources, said that the cuts “would cost lives”.
“Persons at the national level depend on the NOAA for specific forecasts, severe weather alerts and emergency information,” Huffman told NBC Bay in a statement.
In addition to the cuts already made, Richard Hirn, lawyer general of NWS employees, said that he feared that certain NWS offices that are endowed 24/7 can be forced to close.
“It’s very conceivable not enough staff, G and it’s a great concern for us,” he said
Most dismissed persons were probation employees, but Cordero said the nation would be injured without the most specific data on everything, from climate change to tornadoes.
“It really undermines the science that we do,” he said.
PG & E uses NOAA data to help predict heat waves to manage gray energy, and universities are based strongly on this research data. The two could be impacted by the cuts.