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Climate Resilience Committee adopts resolution to defend NOAA funding after hurricane-season briefing
Summary
After a presentation on degraded forecast capacity, the City of Miami Climate Resilience Committee unanimously approved a resolution urging federal and state support for NOAA and steps to reduce local dependence on single sources of weather data.
The City of Miami Climate Resilience Committee voted unanimously to approve a resolution urging preservation of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Weather Service (NWS) funding and to direct the city manager to audit local dependencies on federal weather data and pursue supplemental data and technology.
The action followed a presentation by John Morales, founder and chief atmospheric environmental scientist at ClimateData, who warned that staffing and observational cuts at NOAA and the NWS have degraded forecasting capacity and increased the risk that rapidly intensifying storms may be under-forecasted. "They've got only 50% of the number of forecasters that they normally have," Morales said of the Miami NWS office, describing nationwide cuts and lost radiosonde (weather balloon) releases.
Why it matters: The committee framed the resolution as an early, local step to protect public safety and economic activity by preserving observational systems and…
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