Reposted by Flemmy Wallstein
The Hanford weather service office is closed for 5.5 hours every night due to critically low staffing levels. The Sacramento and Hanford offices collectively serve more than 7.3M Californians in the Central Valley and some of the state's most wildfire-prone landscape in the Sierra foothills. #CAwx
sfchronicle.com
‘This is a big problem’: Two California weather offices no longer provide 24/7 warnings
Collectively, the Central Valley offices issue forecasts and warnings from Redding to Bakersfield, including Lassen, Yosemite, Kings and Sequoia National Parks.
![On February 18, Dr. Andrew Frassetto, a probationer terminated by the NSF, received the OPM template (Dkt. No 18-9 at 38). In a February 13 performance review - five days before he was terminated "based on [his] performance" - Dr. Frassetto's supervisor reported in a
performance review:
[His role [is] mission critical. Dr. Frassetto has been an outstanding program director, and he has taken the lead role in overseeing this important and complicated portfolio for the division. Dr. Frassetto came to NSF with a unique skill set in interdisciplinary scientific research... He has already demonstrated an outstanding ability to balance the various aspects of his job responsibilities and is highly effective at organizing and completing all his work in an accurate and timely manner.
....
Dr. Frassetto's work on this portfolio has been outstanding and he has brought important experience to the role and has demonstrated highly competent project management and oversight. He is a program director who has needed minimal supervision and eagerly
agency.
(id. at 7-8).
NSF said: "The cause comes from boilerplate we received from OPM. The cause says that the agency finds based on your performance that you have not demonstrated that your further employment at the agency would be in the public interest" (id. at 30 (emphasis added)).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreifa3dmodt2plpmwpj3ghvqsg5aenf7cjp3u775sxv4aolq7kumrhe)
