Experts say that the US weather forecasts will deteriorate with Dge Cuts Balloon launch

Washington – With large business deductions, the National Weather Service eliminates or reduces vital air balloon launches in eight northern locations where meteorologists and former agency leaders say they will reduce the accuracy of predictions, such as severe air season.

Normally, the launch of air balloons twice a day about 100 places provides information that predictions and computer models use to understand what the air will be and how dangerous it can be, so eight different scientists, meteorologists and former senior authorities with national ocean and atmosphere management.

. Balloons 100,000 feet rise In the air, temperature, dew point, humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed and direction of radiosons hanging under about 20 feet.

“The weather is about the weather balloons that you cannot get any other way,” he said. During his term of office, he had to reduce expenditures in the agency, but he said he refused to cut observations such as air balloons. “This is definitely an important part of the estimation system.”

“This is obviously only dangerous, Re said Renee McPherson, an Environmental Professor of Oklahoma University.

“Bad,” Ryan Maue, the chief scientist of Noaa at the end of the first period of President Donald Trump, wrote with an e -mail. “We should not lower our air system by jumping balloon launch. This is not just embarrassing for Noaa, but the end of the air balloon launch will worsen America’s weather forecasts.”

There will be launch Omaha, Nebraska and Rapid City were eliminated in South DakotaIn a statement published late on Thursday, the Weather Service said, “Because of the lack of the weather forecast office (WFO) personnel”. It also cuts Launch once twice a day n Aberdeen, South Dakota; Grand Junction, Colorado; Green Bay, Wisconsin; Gaylord, Michigan; North Platte, Nebraska and Riverton, Wyoming.

Ministry of Trump Administration and State Efficiency Hundreds, probably more than 1,000, noaa worker fired Earlier this year. The government later sent letters that supervised free employees left their payment, but they should not report to the job.

At the beginning of this month, the agency announced the air balloon cuts Albany, New York and Gray, Maine, And at the end of February, Kotzebue launching in Alaska. This makes approximately one of the nine launch locations containing the 11 declared site or a part of the Pacific and the Caribbean with reduced or eliminated balloon observations.

Among the regularly reported air stations, Noaa made only one balloon launching deduction per day from 2021 to 2024, according to a press analysis of launch data.

Meteorologists Jeff Masters and Tomer Burg calculate that 14 or 17%of the 83 US balloon fields do not launch partially or at all. This includes two stations that are not released due to helium famine and a third of the stations blocked by coastal erosion.

Susan Buchanan, a spokesman for the weather service, said, “The more data we can feed our air models, the more accurate our estimates, the more we can not speculate on the scope of future effects,” he said.

Albany Meteorology Professor Kristen Corbosiero looked at the launch map on Friday and said, “Wow, this is an empty space … This is not great.”

Corbosiero works in the building where Albany Weather Service goes to the roof to throw the air balloons twice a day. Now he fell at night, he said it was worrying to enter the violent air season.

McPherson of Oklahoma said, “This is probably the worst time of the year for us in the east of the Rocky Mountains.” “Especially when moving to April and May, the time we have some of our biggest hurricane outbreaks.”

Former National Air Service Director Elbert “Joe” on Friday, the air balloons, “the atmosphere will be hot enough to establish strong storms and how intense it can be able to determine the detailed low atmospheric temperature and moisture,” he said.

The satellites do a good job to get a large picture and place measurements and radar, but the air balloons estimate puzzle – the atmosphere – provides the important middle part of the atmosphere – too much air brewing.

All of the 10 discounts announced are in the northern part of the United States. McPherson and Corbosiero, this, a river of air systems all over the world, the river of the jet flow, this is the time of the year, he said.

Baker and another Noaa Chief Rick Spinrad are vital to predict when and where the air balloons will rain.

The air agency has been releasing balloons regularly since the 1930s. II. During World War II, the air balloon launch in the North Pole helped America to win the air war over Europe with better forecasts on Friday, former air chief.

Filling the air balloon with helium or hydrogen lasts to equip with a sensor 90 minutes to an hour, then ready for launching, making sure that it is not dragged on the ground on the radio, a balloon in Alaska with 30 miles / hour wind and Windchill launched a bubble of about 30 degrees under Zero.

Meteorologists then follow the data for a few hours before returning to about four of the five -hour work for a balloon person.

“It’s a little fun to do,” he said on Friday on Friday.

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Data journalist Mary Katherine contributed to Wildeman, Hartford, Connecticut.

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