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Article: Budget Shortfall Prompts Forecasts of Turbulence at Weather Service
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 6, 1997
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Uneasy about a $40 million budget shortfall at the National
Weather Service, four senior weather officials and an outside group
have charged that the spending cuts increase the risk that the
public may not get timely warnings about storms and other weather
hazards.
The service's plan to cut up to 200 staff jobs and scale back
operations could lead to "potentially tragic consequences," the
American Meteorological Society said in a letter signed by 26 of the
group's past presidents.
The letter followed a similar protest by the four top weather
officials who cautioned that "hazardous weather-related events may
go undetected or unpredicted."
The internal memo was obtained and released ...