Tornadoes Don't Take the Night off
An EF3 tornado roared through the city of St Louis on Friday, May 16. The 152-mile per hour winds flattened buildings, ripped out power lines, uprooted trees, and even damaged the local zoo. It was the city’s first deadly tornado in 66 years – and it was just one of at least 7 tornadoes that hit multiple states that day.
A little further north, a dust storm reminiscent of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s engulfed Chicago. I honestly couldn’t believe my eyes when the National Weather Service alert popped up on my phone with a “Dust Storm Warning” advising us to “be ready for a sudden drop to zero visibility.” Where I live in Chicago, the visibility didn’t quite go to zero but in parts of downtown, the massive curtain of dust turned day into night.
This multi-day run of severe storms- including over 60-tornadoes- has killed 40+ people and done considerable damage in 13 states and counting. The bad weather continued through Memorial Day Weekend. Already this year, we’ve had 886 tornadoes, a 35% increase over last year. Plus, hurricane season is right around the corner,too. Seems like a really ridiculous time to be sabotaging the National Weather Service, doesn’t it? But Donald Trump is doing just that.
Seth Borenstein of AP reports that “nearly half of National Weather Service forecast offices have 20% vacancy rates.” He adds: "Detailed vacancy data for all 122 weather field offices show eight offices are missing more than 35% of their staff.” The NWS was already short staffed before Trump, Elon Musk and DOGE took a sledgehammer to it. But now it’s so bad that numerous regional forecasting offices have been forced to abruptly abandon standard round the clock weather monitoring.
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