“Bare, bad and dangerous”: experts think about the descent of the meteorological balloons in the United States.

After a large work cuts, Removes National Weather Service Or reducing the introduction of major weather balloons in eight locations in the United States. Former responsibility for the meteorologists and agencies Warn that this action will reduce accuracy Predictions when the season of extreme weather events begins.

Meteorological balloons In a hundred places they are launched twice a day, and weather inspectors and computer models provide information used to determine the time it makes, and how dangerous it is.

According to the eight scientists.

Balloons rise 30,000 meters In the air containing sensors called radiosids, they hang up below 6 meters and measures the direction of the temperature, spray point, humidity, paramatic pressure, speed and air.

“The good thing about the meteorological balloons is that they offer Information that cannot be obtained in a different way“NOAA’s former president during the Clinton administration says that he had to reduce the costs in the agency during his decree, but he refused to reduce such observations Meteorological balloons “This is a completely necessary part of the forecast system.”

Renee McPherson, Professor of Environment at Oklahoma University: “This is obviously dangerous.” “Worse,” Ryan Ma Au wrote in an email and he was the scientific president of NOAA The primary order of President Donald Trump. “We should not disrupt our meteorological system by avoiding balloons. Not only shame for NOAA. US weather forecasts. “

Where will the meteorological balloons be suppressed in the United States?

The boots will be deleted In Omaha, Nebraska and South Dakota’s Rapid City, the weather service was launched in a delayed announcement on Thursday. You decrease two daily releases daily My Aberdeen, Dakota Del Sur; Grand Junction, Colorado; Green Bay, Wisconsin; Gaylert, Michigan; Northern Flat, Nebraska Y Riveron, Wioming.

Trump administrationEarlier this year, his government performance sector removed hundreds of NOAA workers. Then the government sent letters Telling staff for the test allowed them to charge, but they should not present themselves to work.

Earlier this month, the company announced Meteorological balloons Albany, New York and Gray, Maine, have already completed the releases at the Codesebu of Alaska, at the end of February. Already 11 sites have been announced with reduced or deleted balloon observations, or nearly one of the nine output places that include a part of the Pacific and Caribbean.

At the weather stations According to the Associated Press of the output data, they regularly report that the NOAA is average on balloons interference between 2021 and 2024.

Weather Inspectors Rate Jeff Masters and Tomar Burg 83 of the United States Balloons 14Or 17%, they make part boots or nothing. Two stations that are not started due to a shortage of helium and one -third are thus obstacle Coastal erosion.

“Extra data Let’s introduce in our weather samples, More accurate They will be our forecasts, but I cannot speculate on the purpose of future consequences, ”said Susan Bukonan, a spokesman for the weather service.

Meteorologist Christen CarboSero from Albany’s University looked at the publication map on Friday and said, “Wow, this is an empty area … it’s not right.” The Carcasero works in the building, where Albany’s weather service is used to climb the roof to start the meteorological balloons twice a day. Now only one is thrown at nightThis, for her, is worried about the bad weather season.

Why are the meteorological balloons the most important?

“For those who are in us The east of the Rocky MountainsThis is the worst time of the year, “McPerson explains from Oklahoma.” This is the time of some year with us Older Hurricane eruptionsEspecially when going to April and May. “

Former Director of the National Weather Service Elbert “Joe” said Friday The meteorological balloons “obtain the lower atmospheric scale A comprehensive temperature and humidity that can determine how serious the atmosphere is to be hot to trigger severe storms. “

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Satellites do a good job Ground measurements and radars show what happens on the ground, BBut weather balloons offer the main central portion From the puzzle of forecast, the atmosphere, the most time fake, said many meteorologists said.

There are 10 decreases in the north of the United States. The place where it is at this time of the year The stream in the jet plane. The meteorological balloons are also the most important To help them predict when and where they are raining, the baker said, another old NOAA president Rick Spinrad.

The weather company has been introducing balloons since the 1930s. During World War II.Friday Miolege’s XIFE.

It takes 90 minutes to one hour In filling the balloon with helium or hydrogen, equipped with a sensor, prepare it with a sensor, and make sure that the radiosonda does not crawl, and he explained that he introduced the heat (Alaska) with a thermal sensation – a thermal sensation – with a thermal sensation – a heat sensation. With a thermal sensation – a thermal sensation – with a thermal sensation with a thermal sensation – with a thermal sensation –30ºC.

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Next up, Meteorologists follow the data for two hours Before the balloon falls back to the ground, this is a total of four or five hours of work per individual, explaining Friday. “Does doing fun,” said Friday.