Right now, the NWS and America's private-sector meteorologists are dealing with a major storm. Please scroll down for more info. But, I'm taking time out of my storm coverage because of this vital issue. Bill Nye (who else, 🙄) has come up with a theory that the cuts at NWS/NOAA are because Elon Musk is going to buy the National Weather Service.  Wish I was in Vegas so I could make a bet: it won't happen -- just like 500 "forecasters" were not laid off Friday in spite of what many news organizations would have you believe . Nevertheless, the layoffs were unfortunate and not well planned. Other cuts, discussed here , should not happen.  Let's get serious: The NWS is an essential federal service. Not to mention the thousands of lives it saves, scientific studies have shown that it returns $10 to the economy for every dollar of its budget (the American Meteorological Society explains, here ). It has virtually zero fat. NOAA, on the other hand, has quite a bi...

I've added a hilarious clip of Bill Nye, here .  --- original posting --- Consider these headlines: Now, take a look at the latest forecast from the National Hurricane Center. If this forecast is correct, it would make 2024 the slowest start to a hurricane season since 2014! I'll be the very first to say that it could still be an awful hurricane season, slow start or not. But that's not the point. After the implications that it could be a quick start to the hurricane season, excuses are already being made. The forecasts of a bad hurricane season seem to center around the observation of warmer than average water in the hurricane breeding grounds. Some of us tried to point out that there is much more to hurricane formation than just water temperature, but those comments were largely cast aside.  Much of the above was based on Big Climate's fear mongering. As Dr. Ryan Maue pointed out on Twitter this morning, rather than using its own chief meteorologist Ginger Zee (a well...