Private weather services currently benefit from NOAA/NHC significantly. NHC is usually conservative with hurricane estimates at landfall, though storm surge is correctly put at maximum risk. There are very good private weather/hurricane modelling software in the world. Much of it not American. Youtube is a good expectation of “private weather services”. Alarmism gets views, and there is often one model to get alarmist about.
NOAA plane reconnaissance of hurricanes is an important input into the mentioned models, and adds precision over satelitte data. The communication level of NOAA to public and local officials saves lives.
This year a very extreme hurricane got all the way up to Appalachia and did record monumental flooding. Somehow GOP made people mad at FEMA, just as they got mad that LA firehydrants can’t put out forest fires. The point is that increasingly catastrophic disasters response is not going to be better by gutting FEMA or preparedness from NOAA.
Private weather services currently benefit from NOAA/NHC significantly. NHC is usually conservative with hurricane estimates at landfall, though storm surge is correctly put at maximum risk. There are very good private weather/hurricane modelling software in the world. Much of it not American. Youtube is a good expectation of “private weather services”. Alarmism gets views, and there is often one model to get alarmist about.
NOAA plane reconnaissance of hurricanes is an important input into the mentioned models, and adds precision over satelitte data. The communication level of NOAA to public and local officials saves lives.
This year a very extreme hurricane got all the way up to Appalachia and did record monumental flooding. Somehow GOP made people mad at FEMA, just as they got mad that LA firehydrants can’t put out forest fires. The point is that increasingly catastrophic disasters response is not going to be better by gutting FEMA or preparedness from NOAA.
Sorry, I’m not supportive of the gutting of NOAA, actually fucking depressed about it. But it is still happening
same.