As an Aeronautical Engineer that works on Airplane Safety, I think this is a brilliant idea. Also something like the FAA Lessons Learned From Transport Aircraft Accidents data base but for weather would be a great thing to create to pass on knowledge to the next generation. That way if something is learned it gets out into the world to help everyone else learn and not make the same mistake again in the future.
This is a good idea and one that should be explored. My question is that with trump shutting down and firing so many NOAA and NWS offices and personnel, how would you make it work. It surely can't be a government funded entity. I would like to hear how it can be done.
While everything discussed in this post has great information and good ideas unless the people who are in places of power stop talking out of both sides of their mouths and making stupid decisions none of this matters.
That area of Texas is a flood plain. There have been other tragedies from floods in that area before. They were given money and the opportunity to install a warning system but chose to use millions of $$ for the local sheriff's department instead. Why? It came from the Biden administration and was communist/socialist.
When people refuse to make the right choices because of a lack of political will, they will always look to blame someone else. Until that changes and the bad/stupid misinformation that is used to justify it is debunked, they will continue to make the same sort of decisions against their own best interest and look to blame "others".
This is TRUE. On the other hand, redundancy in weather tracking is a good idea EVEN IF it costs more money, because it may reduce the ability of stupid decisions in high places to keep people from the weather services they need. Could we use Sorensen's idea as a springboard for a more robust structure? At least some states could start with state weather safety boards.
Thank you for your insight on this most important topic. When the government closed many NWS offices back in-the 90’s and were relying on NexRad radar because of its ability to track storms at long distances many communities including my parents were not effectively covered from severe weather. The radar in the farthest north of them was able to pick up the tornado while the other radar south of them continued to miss the tornados. Not only that but the broadcast area outside of their market area was concerned that the NWS in Birmingham Alabama didn’t pick up the severe weather. The government had to reopen several offices because of missed storms that were severe and some deadly. The government should not ever make that same mistake again. Thanks for your service.
NOAA's 6 Field Offices** should be re-staffed and funded to ensure:
1. Uninterrupted and systematic collection of marine, oceanic and atmospheric data essential to forecasting climate change, status of fisheries and weather;
2. Effective regulation of activities in the US EEZ and coastal zone;
3. That the US can effectively participate in multilateral agreements involving space, climate change, international trade and shipping, governance of the world ocean, and environmental protection.
**NOAA Field Offices:
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service.
Such an analysis would be very useful after a totally unexpected event like the major floods and landslides in Western NC from Hurricane Helene. Yes, forecasters were anticipating major rains and flooding but NOTHING like the landslides and level of flooding that actually happened — what was afterward being called a 1000 year event!!
Yes, what happened in Texas may have been a recurrence of what happened there before but worse but, with the climate change that this administration denies is happening and looking at the stats in the number of violent/extreme storms we have had in the last 5 years as compared to the previous 10-20 years, we must be prepared for continued 500 year or 1000 year events. We need to find a way to predict these severe and extreme storms and get people out of harms way in time.
As an Aeronautical Engineer that works on Airplane Safety, I think this is a brilliant idea. Also something like the FAA Lessons Learned From Transport Aircraft Accidents data base but for weather would be a great thing to create to pass on knowledge to the next generation. That way if something is learned it gets out into the world to help everyone else learn and not make the same mistake again in the future.
https://www.faa.gov/lessons_learned/transport_airplane
This is a good idea and one that should be explored. My question is that with trump shutting down and firing so many NOAA and NWS offices and personnel, how would you make it work. It surely can't be a government funded entity. I would like to hear how it can be done.
While everything discussed in this post has great information and good ideas unless the people who are in places of power stop talking out of both sides of their mouths and making stupid decisions none of this matters.
That area of Texas is a flood plain. There have been other tragedies from floods in that area before. They were given money and the opportunity to install a warning system but chose to use millions of $$ for the local sheriff's department instead. Why? It came from the Biden administration and was communist/socialist.
When people refuse to make the right choices because of a lack of political will, they will always look to blame someone else. Until that changes and the bad/stupid misinformation that is used to justify it is debunked, they will continue to make the same sort of decisions against their own best interest and look to blame "others".
This is TRUE. On the other hand, redundancy in weather tracking is a good idea EVEN IF it costs more money, because it may reduce the ability of stupid decisions in high places to keep people from the weather services they need. Could we use Sorensen's idea as a springboard for a more robust structure? At least some states could start with state weather safety boards.
Thank you for your insight on this most important topic. When the government closed many NWS offices back in-the 90’s and were relying on NexRad radar because of its ability to track storms at long distances many communities including my parents were not effectively covered from severe weather. The radar in the farthest north of them was able to pick up the tornado while the other radar south of them continued to miss the tornados. Not only that but the broadcast area outside of their market area was concerned that the NWS in Birmingham Alabama didn’t pick up the severe weather. The government had to reopen several offices because of missed storms that were severe and some deadly. The government should not ever make that same mistake again. Thanks for your service.
NOAA's 6 Field Offices** should be re-staffed and funded to ensure:
1. Uninterrupted and systematic collection of marine, oceanic and atmospheric data essential to forecasting climate change, status of fisheries and weather;
2. Effective regulation of activities in the US EEZ and coastal zone;
3. That the US can effectively participate in multilateral agreements involving space, climate change, international trade and shipping, governance of the world ocean, and environmental protection.
**NOAA Field Offices:
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service.
National Marine Fisheries Service.
National Ocean Service.
National Weather Service.
Office of Marine & Aviation Operations.
Office of Oceanic & Atmospheric Research
Such an analysis would be very useful after a totally unexpected event like the major floods and landslides in Western NC from Hurricane Helene. Yes, forecasters were anticipating major rains and flooding but NOTHING like the landslides and level of flooding that actually happened — what was afterward being called a 1000 year event!!
Yes, what happened in Texas may have been a recurrence of what happened there before but worse but, with the climate change that this administration denies is happening and looking at the stats in the number of violent/extreme storms we have had in the last 5 years as compared to the previous 10-20 years, we must be prepared for continued 500 year or 1000 year events. We need to find a way to predict these severe and extreme storms and get people out of harms way in time.
And after explaining the death a destruction of a weather event, doesn’t it all come back around to ‘we recommend sending up more weather balloons.’