Zach Hiris
@zhiris.bsky.social
Meteorologist 🏔
Opinions are my own and do not represent those of my employer
Opinions are my own and do not represent those of my employer
Reposted by Zach Hiris
Reports indicate that the Trump administration may attempt to slash billions from NOAA’s budget — including cutting research that forecasts natural disasters like wildfires & droughts.
The Commerce Department must reverse these plans! Read our letter with Senator Bennet & Senator Hickenlooper 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
The Commerce Department must reverse these plans! Read our letter with Senator Bennet & Senator Hickenlooper 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
April 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Reports indicate that the Trump administration may attempt to slash billions from NOAA’s budget — including cutting research that forecasts natural disasters like wildfires & droughts.
The Commerce Department must reverse these plans! Read our letter with Senator Bennet & Senator Hickenlooper 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
The Commerce Department must reverse these plans! Read our letter with Senator Bennet & Senator Hickenlooper 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
Reposted by Zach Hiris
“If you want to call it a trainwreck, you can."
Colorado research into weather forecasting, drought and wildfires is at risk of grinding to a halt if planned budget cuts by President Trump’s administration come to fruition and eliminate funding crucial to the Colorado labs’ existence.
Colorado research into weather forecasting, drought and wildfires is at risk of grinding to a halt if planned budget cuts by President Trump’s administration come to fruition and eliminate funding crucial to the Colorado labs’ existence.
‘Trainwreck’ of NOAA funding cuts could derail Colorado research on wildfires, earthquakes and storms
At a lab in Fort Collins, scientists are researching how to incorporate artificial intelligence into the forecasting of hurricane paths and how to better predict storms’ impact on wildfires. …
www.denverpost.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
“If you want to call it a trainwreck, you can."
Colorado research into weather forecasting, drought and wildfires is at risk of grinding to a halt if planned budget cuts by President Trump’s administration come to fruition and eliminate funding crucial to the Colorado labs’ existence.
Colorado research into weather forecasting, drought and wildfires is at risk of grinding to a halt if planned budget cuts by President Trump’s administration come to fruition and eliminate funding crucial to the Colorado labs’ existence.
Is this "The Great Opportunity" that the maplist promised us? 🫠
BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
www.science.org
April 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Is this "The Great Opportunity" that the maplist promised us? 🫠
Reposted by Zach Hiris
Nice piece by three heavyweights on the academia side of meteorology explaining NOAA’s critical importance.
Guest opinion: Robert Hart, Kerry Emanuel and Lance Bosart: We need NOAA now more than ever
The recent seemingly arbitrary and capricious reductions to NOAA are seriously jeopardizing the future of the country and, more generally, the property and lives of hundreds of millions of tax-payi…
www.dailycamera.com
March 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Nice piece by three heavyweights on the academia side of meteorology explaining NOAA’s critical importance.
Reposted by Zach Hiris
NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes
NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes
SILVER SPRING, MD—As mass firings of career experts and scientists continued to roil the federal government, officials confirmed Friday that cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
theonion.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes
Reposted by Zach Hiris
The U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1).
3/11
3/11
February 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1).
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Sounds really efficient.
the tl has been DOGE all the time, but who actually runs DOGE? we still don't know.
Not Even DOGE Employees Know Who’s Legally Running DOGE
Despite all appearances, the White House insists that Elon Musk is not in charge of DOGE. US DOGE Service employees can’t get a straight answer about who is.
www.wired.com
February 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Sounds really efficient.
Vibes every day I look at any news headline
a woman in a judge 's robe is saying earth is a mess y 'all .
Alt: Maya Rudolph's character in The Good Place saying "Earth is a mess y'all"
media.tenor.com
February 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Vibes every day I look at any news headline