Sharpies are included in each new employee packet.

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"Among the most urgent is the restoration of what's called "upper air" data, which Thoman and Gerard said has noticeably declined or degraded since January 2025.

The data is considered by many to be fundamental to forecasting models, particularly in scenarios where weather is changing rapidly. It has historically been collected by weather balloons, synced to launch twice daily from sites nationwide, and in other parts of the world, too.

Several U.S. weather stations no longer launch balloons twice daily, or at consistent morning and evening times, records show, which Cei said is "due to temporary resource and equipment constraints."

It's an unprecedented change, Gerard said.

"There's concern about the quality of the models because of the lack of upper air data," he said. "There's a lot of expression of just being less confident, and having less confidence in your data tends to undermine a lot of your operational decisions, right?"

As a former private pilot and flight instructor I'm quite the weather nerd. I pay attention to those things.

I live in an area that gets some violent weather, and forecasts can make a huge diffence in lives and property lost.

Eloon and El Stoopido don't give a rat's ass if anyone is qualified to work in a department. The same thing happened at NASA where they let 20% of the experienced engineers/scientists go and now Isaacson is saying they can't reach the goals Dopey Don set for the moon landing because they don't have enough experienced people.

He screws up every thing he does.

Fingers crossed

On a couple of occasions, NWS sites were offline when tornadic weather was crossing the region. In several instances, funnel clouds were reported by private weather watchers minutes before NWS issued warnings for the area… or warnings were never issued. People died. (Ex: Union City MI, 3 fatalities this spring with tornado that hit with no warning)