NWS and the World Cup: Absolutely the Wrong Approach! - Updated

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The NWS's job -- and only job -- should be to provide outstanding forecasts and 
storm warnings for the public-at-large, which pays their salaries. 

With the National Weather Service falling apart, the last thing they should be doing is redeploying meteorologists -- when they are already badly shorthanded -- to World Cup cities to provide weather security for the matches. 

Kansas City World Cup ticket prices. These are the 
least expensive tickets for each match. 

Addition: These are prices for the Denver games. The price is
for a pair of tickets. You want to tell me to believe the 
organizers cannot afford a few thousand dollars for an 
expert commercial meteorological service?!

The FIFA (World Cup organizers) should take the revenue from just a few of those tickets and pay a commercial weather company -- which after all specialize in this type of assignment -- to do the weather security. This especially true since NWS meteorologists' training in handling severe weather varies considerably and NWS tornado warning accuracy has been falling for more than a decade.

There are at least six companies that specialize in site-specific storm warnings. I will endorse the meteorologists at AccuWeather For Business as having an excellent track record with storm warnings. 

When they are seriously short-handed, there is no reason for the NWS to be moving people from city-to-city for fat cats that want you to spend $1,000 per ticket to see a soccer game. 

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