Interesting Facebook post. Budget cuts at NOAA may have cost lives in Texas today

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Dan Satterfield

Why has the model guidance been so poor lately.
Look at the map below. Red dots are balloon launches cancelled THIS MORNING because of staff shortages at NOAA. Blue dots are permanently cancelled due to budget cuts. Note two in TX and one on the border of TX.
Hat tip to Jeff @[e-mail] for this.

Snip: Dan Satterfield
That missing sounding at CRP on the TX coast was a critical piece of info not available to forecasters or ingested into the model guidance.


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