Another Major Equipment Failure at the National Weather Service
1550Z is 11:50am Eastern Daylight Time. What all of this means is that there is another major failure of National Weather Service (NWS) communications and data processing capabilities. These have become far too common.
The southern Appalachian region is suffering through the worst natural disaster -- by far -- in its known history due to the flooding from Helene -- which the NWS was slow to warn of.
There are quality people in the NWS desperately trying to do the right things but I fear the lack of resources and autonomy (NOAA is the worst thing to ever happen to the NWS) has them hamstrung.
The United States, for this and many other reasons, desperately needs a National Disaster Review Board modeled after the National Transportation Safety Board.
The size of this disaster is overwhelming (see map below) and the media's coverage -- so far -- has been woefully inadequate. We need a National Weather Service that is the best in the world. Only an independent National Disaster Review Board can advise future presidents and congresses how to fix the NWS.
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