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(DIR) Post #AvrMPanjBXUulU56bQ by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-06T14:43:12Z
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#Texas Officials Slam Trump’s #NationalWeatherService for Botched ForecastOfficials in Texas are casting blame on the #NWS for failing to forecast catastrophic #flooding that has killed at least 51 people.NWS was among the government agencies targeted by the #DOGE in its effort to gut the federal bureaucracy, losing approximately 600 staffers.#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth #ExtremeWeather #USpol https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-officials-slam-donald-trumps-national-weather-service-for-bad-forecast/
(DIR) Post #AvrMnkttHsVr2OUBBQ by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-06T14:47:41Z
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After the cuts, #NWS—which was already understaffed—began to prepare to offer “degraded” forecasting services, facing “severe shortages” of meteorologists, acc/to an internal document…“The original forecast that we received Wednesday from the National Weather Service predicted 3-6" of rain in the Concho Valley & 4-8" in the Hill Country,”said #Texas #Emergency Management Chief W. Nim Kidd at a presser. “The amount of rain that fell at this specific location was never in any of those forecasts.”
(DIR) Post #AvrN1fAhNs8vK8ym3c by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-06T14:50:13Z
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Sudden thunderstorms dumped >10 inches of rain on the area, causing heavy #flooding from the #GuadalupeRiver.Dalton Rice, the city manager for #Kerrville, #Texas—who also spoke at the press conference—said that the catastrophic #FlashFlooding happened because the skies “dumped more rain than what was forecasted” on 2 of the river’s forks.The flooding has killed at least 51 people so far, including children. >27 young girls from #CampMystic… are still missing.#Climate #ExtremeWeather #Trump
(DIR) Post #AvrNBPqPE2OIgP8bvE by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-07-06T14:51:58Z
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…In May, all 5 living directors of the #NWS issued a letter warning that #Trump’s cuts “leave the nation’s official weather forecasting entity at a significant deficit… just as we head into the busiest time for severe #storm predictions like tornadoes & hurricanes,” the directors wrote. “Our worst nightmare is that #weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life.”#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth #ExtremeWeather #USpol
(DIR) Post #AvrP0QZKOJAPeY2PcO by sellathechemist@mastodon.social
2025-07-06T15:12:21Z
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@Nonilex Worth reading Daniel Swain's thread about the limits of weather prediction with respect to extreme localised rainfall. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gslrbg7et2wxhlhrkqtwlm22/post/3ltaqodsykc2f
(DIR) Post #AvrfEEsIGTYghmW5uy by ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social
2025-07-06T18:14:05Z
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@Nonilex Well, they got what they forecasted
(DIR) Post #AvruybOaMbdHBZBdTc by mcquiniac@toad.social
2025-07-06T21:10:34Z
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@Nonilex #MagaDeath