Few hours ago I did an interview with a local NY TV where I highlighted how dangerous this slow (not so slow...) degradation of observational capacity will lead to less reliable weather predictions and more risks across the board. The journalist had not heard this before, but was pretty shocked.
@wxdam.comNWS just announced a major reduction in upper-air (weather balloon) observations due to staffing shortages.
Omaha and Rapid City losing balloon launches altogether, with launches cut in half at 6 other sites.
Losing this many launches could affect severe weather forecasting and computer models.
