Daily Kos - The National Weather Service on Thursday announced that it is suspending weather balloon releases in eight locations around the country, after co-President Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency slashed jobs at the agency indiscriminately leading to critical staff shortages.
“Effective immediately, and until further notice, the National Weather Service (NWS) is temporarily suspending weather balloon observations … due to a lack of Weather Forecast Office (WFO) staffing. Offices will perform special observations as needed,” the NWS said in a statement.
Two locations—one in Omaha, Nebraska, and another in Rapid City, South Dakota—will no longer release weather balloons. Six others—in South Dakota, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nebraska, and Wyoming—will reduce weather balloon releases to once per day.
Weather forecasters say fewer balloons means weather reports will be less accurate because there won't be as much data for forecasters to model.
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