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Sen. Chuck Schumer says the underfunding of hurricane tracking systems may have led to miscalls on Hurricane Joaquin's track along the east coast.
The senator held an event Sunday afternoon in New York City.
http://www.wbng.com/news/state/Schumer-Underfunding-of-hurricane-tracking-systems-330573621.html
I kid you not
In the era of super storms, accurate weather forecasts are not a luxury they are a necessity. The information we gather on weather from high above the earth translates into safety on the ground, said Schumer in a news release. It is just plain dumb to cut hundreds of millions from our weather satellite system just when catastrophic storms are getting more extreme and more frequent. Hurricane Joaquin is just the latest example of how crucial these satellites are and thats why I am launching this push to get our weather system adequately funded.
Schumer said he is pushing Congress to restore the $245 million for NOAA.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)so it makes no sense that they would deliberately set out to cause harm to their own states. Unfortunately for all of us, none of the voters who elected the same shortsighted idiots that cut the funding, will ever connect the dots between what their elected reps did to them and the cost to their own communities.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)You're either part of the United states or you're not. They need to decide whether they're in or out.
tblue37
(65,423 posts)because they provide climate change data.
But also, like Bobby Jindal's sneering about funds for volcano monitoring, the scientifically illiterate yahoos just can't fathom why weather tracking data would be more important than tax cuts for their wealthy donors.
http://scienceprogress.org/2011/03/house-gop-doubles-down-on-cuts-to-weather-hurricane-and-climate-tracking/
Latest CR Would Cut Even Deeper into Critical Satellite Observation Programs"
Last month, CAP and Climate Progress reported on House Republicans shortsighted attempt to obliterate funding for new environmental monitoring satellitesthe sole source of some data for weather and climate forecasters.
On Tuesday, in its latest three-week extension of government spending, the GOP, apparently not content with the depth of its evisceration, upped the ante by voting to cut an additional $115 million from NOAAs Acquisition account. As we wrote in February after the initial cuts passed the House
At least an 18-month gap in coverage will be unavoidable without adequate funding for new polar-orbiting satellites this year. More troubling, taking an acquisition program offline and then restarting the process at a later date would lead to cost increases of as much as three to five times the amount the government would have to spend for the same product today.
So heres the choice: Spend $700 million this year for continuous service or $2 billion to $3.5 billion at some point in the future for the same equipment and a guaranteed service interruption.
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Beartracks
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Kingofalldems
(38,461 posts)lovuian
(19,362 posts)what's he trying to tell us here
"SuperStorms"......Bigger Badder Storms than Hurricanes....
GOP shouldn't have cut funding to NOAA
DesMoinesDem
(1,569 posts)It has nothing to do with a storm being bigger and badder than a hurricane. Sandy wasn't even a hurricane when it made landfall in the US. Calling this the era of superstorms is embarrassing.
lovuian
(19,362 posts)climate change future storms.....It's a heads up for the future and instead of having funding NOAA gets slashed
DesMoinesDem
(1,569 posts)for every storm.
patricia92243
(12,597 posts)msongs
(67,421 posts)don't recall which model that was.
NutmegYankee
(16,200 posts)lovuian
(19,362 posts)I think Schumer is frustrated
It's a Superstorm all right
enough
(13,259 posts)have been 100% accurate, in spite of the fact that some of the maps showed the storm driving right up into our area.
That is an amazing map, thanks for the post, lovuian.
starroute
(12,977 posts)El Niño monitoring system in failure mode
US budget woes cripple a key mooring array in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
23 January 2014
An ocean-monitoring system that extends across the tropical Pacific is collapsing, depriving scientists of data on a region that influences global weather and climate trends.
Nearly half of the moored buoys in the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) array have failed in the past two years, crippling an early-warning system for the warming and cooling events in the eastern equatorial Pacific, known respectively as El Niño and La Niña. Scientists are now collecting data from just 40% of the array.
Its the most important climate phenomenon on the planet, and we have blinded ourselves to it by not maintaining this array, says Michael McPhaden, a senior scientist at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Seattle, Washington. McPhaden headed the TAO project before it was transferred out of NOAAs research arm and into the agency's National Weather Service in 2005.
lovuian
(19,362 posts)pretty fascinating to watch
Look at the spinning down at Florida
Two hospitals in Charleston have NO water.
University of SC, no water.
lovuian
(19,362 posts)"It's not over. We are in the middle of it. We have at least another 24 hours. There is more rain is coming," she said.
Haley emphasized that it's not like a direct hit from a hurricane, which the state has experience with, but
Rain and flood warnings for much of the U.S. East Coast continue through today. The rainfall will reach into the Southeast and the Tennessee Valley with flash-flood threats in several states, including parts of New Jersey, Georgia and North Carolina.
Joaquin is forecast to pass very near Bermuda late tonight or early Monday as a major storm that could do considerable damage.
Joaquin was centered about 125 miles southwest of Hamilton, Bermuda's capital city. The Category 3 storm, with winds of 105 mph, is moving northeast at 15 mph.
Notice the general term EAST COAST