The National Weather Service is working to hire back hundreds of positions laid off or otherwise cut by the Trump administration, but it’s progressing at a snail’s pace, forcing many offices to continue to cope with vacancies that could affect winter forecasts.
The nws was like one of the very few good things we did right so ofc we gutted it for more money to go to the mic.
one would have assumed that it had some insulation from the right wing cranks, being that it has always been housed in the Commerce department as a nod to the obvious fact that some ability to forecast catastrophe protects business interests and commercial activity as well.
but now that every aspect of reality must be viewed through a lens that determines if it is “woke/rainbow” or “trad/skull” for the Everyone is 13 heuristic… it seems anything can and will happen.