Staff cuts at NOAA have resulted in loss of "27,000 years of experience."

NOAA retirees are working as volunteers and unpaid interns to help with the current workload.

The White House wants to entirely eliminate NOAA Research, the branch of the agency that oversees the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory.

This is deliberate sabotage by the anti-science White House.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/climate/noaa-volunteers-hurricane-melissa.html
#UsPol #NOAA #Climate
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Staff cuts at NOAA have resulted in loss of "27,000 years of experience."

NOAA retirees are working as volunteers and unpaid interns to help with the current workload.

The White House wants to entirely eliminate NOAA Research, the branch of the agency that oversees the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory.

This is deliberate sabotage by the anti-science White House.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/climate/noaa-volunteers-hurricane-melissa.html
#UsPol #NOAA #Climate
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This is what we pay taxes for, folks. 😡 #politics #NOAA #HurricaneMelissa #Melissa

This is what we pay taxes for, folks. 😡 #politics #NOAA #HurricaneMelissa #Melissa

Hurricane Melissa satellite with lightning. My heart is with Jamaica.

💔

This is a category 5, their largest hurricane in history. It’s likely that Jamaica will be completely demolished.

Who has info on how we can help? Are there reliable mutual aid recipients? Other ideas on how to help?

Credit: CIRA/NOAA
https://satlib.cira.colostate.edu/event/hurricane-melissa/

#HurricaneMelissa #Jamaica #NOAA #CIRA #Satellite #MutualAid

Track of Melissa has taken the storm much more west ward than I hoped, and it's smack S off of Jamaica island. This means the ENE stream which WILL push it NE will go through the most populous area.

Latest estimates put the storm going much further NE, because the ENE stream has solidified and grown stronger, maybe due to Tropical Storm Sonia bumping a mass of air, WSW off Mexico.

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT3+shtml/281150.shtml?

#Weather #HurricaneMelissa #Caribbean #NOAA #NHC

Melissa is, now, very much a picture perfect hurricane, 901mbar and 175mph/280kmh sustained winds at the core vortex walls.

The IR signature is scary, but it shows a slight cooling of the core vortex. This means the storm has stopped "feeding" is will hopefully start dissipating energy, as it drags over landmasses. Unfortunately, that energy will be dissipated by wrecking #Jamaica and #Haiti.

#Weather #HurricaneMelissa #caribbean #NOAA #NHC

Track of Melissa has taken the storm much more west ward than I hoped, and it's smack S off of Jamaica island. This means the ENE stream which WILL push it NE will go through the most populous area.

Latest estimates put the storm going much further NE, because the ENE stream has solidified and grown stronger, maybe due to Tropical Storm Sonia bumping a mass of air, WSW off Mexico.

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT3+shtml/281150.shtml?

#Weather #HurricaneMelissa #Caribbean #NOAA #NHC

Hurricane Melissa satellite with lightning. My heart is with Jamaica.

💔

This is a category 5, their largest hurricane in history. It’s likely that Jamaica will be completely demolished.

Who has info on how we can help? Are there reliable mutual aid recipients? Other ideas on how to help?

Credit: CIRA/NOAA
https://satlib.cira.colostate.edu/event/hurricane-melissa/

#HurricaneMelissa #Jamaica #NOAA #CIRA #Satellite #MutualAid

CNN:Climate.gov will re-launch under new URL thanks to a secret team of web ninjas

"...A small group of about 10 writers, researchers and web development ninjas are launching an ambitious effort to preserve key climate data that the Trump administration has taken offline, including a landmark, congressionally mandated report and the contents of the climate.gov website. ..."

(Note: will be at climate.us)

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/climate/climate-government-website-noaa-data-preservation

#noaa #climateemergency#climate #disasters #nws

CNN:Climate.gov will re-launch under new URL thanks to a secret team of web ninjas

"...A small group of about 10 writers, researchers and web development ninjas are launching an ambitious effort to preserve key climate data that the Trump administration has taken offline, including a landmark, congressionally mandated report and the contents of the climate.gov website. ..."

(Note: will be at climate.us)

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/climate/climate-government-website-noaa-data-preservation

#noaa #climateemergency#climate #disasters #nws

So, one week later, I heard today is indeed the final day of NOAA 15 (an automatic station in the US has only just now returned dead air).

One last APT recording, then - 19-8-2025 9.52.56.

I have packed the antenna away. Those of a more poetic disposition might care to read my final thoughts here - https://open-weather.community/archive/ow3241/

#noaa #weather #data #satellite

So, one week later, I heard today is indeed the final day of NOAA 15 (an automatic station in the US has only just now returned dead air).

One last APT recording, then - 19-8-2025 9.52.56.

I have packed the antenna away. Those of a more poetic disposition might care to read my final thoughts here - https://open-weather.community/archive/ow3241/

#noaa #weather #data #satellite

Its estimated arrival in #Hawaii at 7:17 PM, Hawaiian time. No statement on wave height, but Japan's meteorological office has put out a warning of 3 meters all along the eastern shores of #Japan, starting at 10:00 JST, which was 4 minutes ago.

The US NWS is soliciting comments on the possible use / trial of Bluesky. I plan to encourage them to also look at the fediverse and, at a minimum, use Bridgy Fed to bridge to Mastodon (hat tip to NWS Boston, which is already doing this). #NWS#NOAA#SKYWARN#USWx#MAWx

https://www.weather.gov/media/notification/pdf_2025/pns25-50_comment_Bluesky_at_NWS_HQ.pdf

We're losing #OpenAccess to #weather #data on the #NOAA web site. But #HamRadio operators can still access it directly from the #satellites. They can even decrypt most of it with a new #OpenSource decoder. Here's how.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/ssmis_satellite_decoder

PS: Very grateful to geeks.

#Censorship#DefendResearch#OpenData#Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics