NY Times Op-Ed: Trump's Cuts Are Disarming Us Against Hurricanes

An urgent NYT op-ed reveals how dismantling our nation's weather defenses, just as a potentially active hurricane season looms, is a recipe for disaster.

I just read an incredibly important op-ed in The New York Times authored by my pal and former Weather Channel colleague Michael Lowry, and the message is stark—the Trump administration’s actions are systematically eroding our ability to prepare for and forecast hurricanes, potentially leading to "deadly surprise hurricanes of tomorrow."

You can read the full (gifted) article here: A Hurricane Season Like No Other

Here is a key excerpt —

… as we head into what NOAA forecasts will be another active Atlantic hurricane season, the Trump administration and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are downsizing the agency, which houses the National Weather Service, the hurricane hunters and many other programs crucial to hurricane forecasters.

Without the arsenal of tools from NOAA and its 6.3 billion observations sourced each day, the rou…