Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas

Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas

DOGE cut hundreds of jobs at the NWS, but experts who spoke to WIRED say the agency accurately predicted the state's weekend flood risk.

Cuts to the National Weather Service eyed in Texas tragedy

The NWS apparently did its job - Lawyers, Guns & Money

I can understand the temptation to blame DOGE for the horrible consequences of the Guadalupe River flood, but leaving aside that this would almost certainly be counterproductive (the Republican response to bureaucratic failure is to see it as a pretext for further cuts) it also appears to be false: At least 27 people, including nine children, are dead in central Texas after flash floods struck suddenly on the morning of the Fourth of July holid…

Meteorologists Say the Nationwide Climate Service Did Its Job in Texas

“The sign was on the market that that is going to be a heavy, important rainfall occasion,” says Vagasky. “However pinpointing precisely the place that’s going to fall, you may’t try this.” Flash floods on this a part of Texas are nothing new. Eight inches of rainfall within the state “may very well be on a day that ends in Y,” says Matt Lanza, additionally an authorized digital meteorologist primarily based in Houston. It’s a problem, he says, …