Washington – Through huge discounts in jobs, the national weather service removes or reduces the launch of the vital weather balloon in eight northern sites, which meteorologists and former agency leaders said that the accuracy of predictions was included in the harsh weather season.
Eight different scientists said that the launchs that are usually the launchers of weather balloons in about 100 sites provide information that the predictors and computer models use to find out what the weather will be and how dangerous it is, so the reduction is a mistake.
the Balloons rise 100,000 feet In the air with sensors called the hanging radio about 20 feet under temperature, dew point, moisture, barometer pressure, wind speed and direction.
“The thing about the weather balloons is that it gives you information that you cannot get in any other way,” said De James Baker, the former president of Nawa during the Clinton administration. He had to reduce spending at the agency during his term, but he said he refused to cut notes such as weather balloons. “It is a very essential part of the prediction system.”
“This is a dangerous frankness,” said Professor of Oklahoma University environment, Rene McFireson.
Ryan Mao, “bad”, who was the chief scientist Nawa at the end of President Donald Trump’s term, wrote in an email. “We should not destroy our weather system by overcoming the launch of the balloon. This is not only embarrassing for Noa, the suspension of the weather balloon will exacerbate the weather forecast in America.”
It will be the launch operations It was eliminated in Omaha, Nebraska, Rubid City, South Dakota“Because there are no employees in the WFO Office,” said the weather service. It also cuts off Two times a day to launch a day I am N Aberdeen, South Dakota; Grand Ganechen, Colorado; Green Bay, Wisconsin; Gaylord, Michigan; North Platt, Nebraska and Riverton, Wyoming.
Trump administration and government efficiency department for it Hundreds have been launched, more than 1000 years old Earlier this year. After that, the government sent messages telling employees under observation who left their salaries, but it should not be reported to work.
Earlier this month, the agency announced a balloon discounts in the weather Albani, New York and Gray, Men, In late February, he is The launch operations have ended in Kotesbio, Alaska. This makes 11 sites announced with or removed balloon notes, or about one of all nine launch sites that include part of the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean.
Among the weather stations regularly, Nawa’s average of only one interruption to launch the balloon daily from 2021 to 2024, according to the Associated Press for launch data.
Meteorological experts, Jeff Master and Tomer Burg, calculates that 14 out of 83 American balloon sites, or 17 %, are partially launch or without. This includes two stations that are not released due to helium deficiency and the third that is hindered by coastal corrosion.
“The more data we can feed in our weather models, the greater the accuracy of our expectations, but I cannot predict the extent of future effects,” said Susan Bokanan, a spokeswoman for the weather service.
The University of Albani meteorological, Christine Corposerio, looked at the launch map on Friday and said, “Wow, this is an empty area … this is not great.”
Corbosiero works in the building where the Weather Albany service went to the surface to start the weather balloons twice daily. It has now reached one at night, which she said is heading towards the harsh weather season.
“For those of us east of the Rocky Mountains, this may be the worst time of the year,” said McFireson of Oklahoma. “It is time for the year when we have some of our biggest outbreaks in the hurricane, especially as we move to April and May.”
Former National Weather Service Director Elbert “Joe” said on Friday that weather balloons get “the low temperature and humidity level in the detailed atmosphere that can determine whether the atmosphere will be hot enough to stimulate severe storms and how intensity.”
The satellites do a good job in obtaining a large image and ground measurements and the radar shows what is happening on the ground, but the weather balloons provide the main middle part of the prediction puzzle – the air – where there were many types of weather conditions.
All the ten decreases are present in the northern part of the United States. This is the place around it, and it is a river of air that moves weather systems all over the world – this is this time of the year, so the lack of many notes represents a special problem.
Baker and former head of Nawa, Rick Spinrad, said the weather balloons are also vital to help predict when and where it will rain.
The weather agency has launched balloons regularly for the thirties of the twentieth century. The former weather chief said on Friday that during World War II, the launch of the balloon in the Arctic in the Arctic helped win the air battle against Europe with better expectations of aircraft.
He said on Friday, who recalled that his launch is on a sensing, that it takes 90 minutes to an hour to fill the weather balloon with helium or hydrogen, get it with a sensor, then ready to release while making sure that the radio does not run on the ground.
He said on Friday that meteorologists and then follow the data for a few hours before the balloon returns to the ground for a total of about four hours of work for one person.
On Friday, he said on Friday: “It is an interesting thing to do.”
—
Data journalist Mary Catherine and Wildene from Hartford, Connecticut.
___
The Associated Press climate and environmental coverage receive financial support from many private institutions. AP is the only one responsible for all content. Look for AP Standards To work with charitable works, a list of supporters and coverage areas in AP.org.