Severe cuts to the National Weather Service led to the Jackson NWS going without a full-time overnight forecasters.
Warnings for the 3 AM tornado that claimed at least 18 lives were delayed as a result.
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Warnings for the 3 AM tornado that claimed at least 18 lives were delayed as a result.
DOGE is killing Americans. It needs to be stopped. Science needs protection. MAGA needs a cage
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The death toll has risen to 27.
One day before this happened, the NYT published an article that singled out this weather station for being understaffed.
Cutbacks in research in all sorts of sciences will be disastrous long term.
Trump is accelerating the stupidification of America.
We were following weather watchers throughout the storm. This seems to be what they want. Have random people predicting weather, not the government.
Wishing suffering on people as "deserved punishment" isn't justice, it's revenge fantasy.
Cause: Bad policy decision by this regime that was 💯 avoidable!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/weather/nws-cuts-kentucky-tornado.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Someone from Saint Louis responded to me on here yesterday saying it was only 4.
You know better than anyone how unreliable reporting can be.
Serves me right for reading that junk. All I was trying to do was check whether the numbers had increased.
What? You mean the foreign countries don’t pay your tariff? This doesn’t compute! You said foreign countries paid. This means you lied!
Make up your mind, what’s left of it. You scare me!
Be fierce, be brave, be free.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/17/kentucky-national-weather-service-forecast-office-staff-cuts/83693800007/
Warnings were ahead of average lead time, and JKL was staffed appropriately last night.
Yes, the staffing remains a critical issue. But this pronouncement does a serious disservice to the folks still in that office.
And also, there are two NWS Jackson WFOs, so specify.
there should be immediate Congressional hearings, investigations & possible charges -
needless deaths, destruction, suffering
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They stopped being "mainstream" when they started kissing his ass and attacking Hillary Clinton with BS about email servers and her "failing health."
The NYTimes abandoned its place as MSM to be his propagandists.
The sirens went off only for about a minute AFTER the worst of the storm passed us.
At the time, I just thought it wasn't that big of a storm, but it was.
As for the WEA, you might have something there, but it also may, unfortunately, have to do with if you properly fell in the warnings lines or not. I'd have to check IEM for the timing.
But it was still strange because usually we get notices for a fairly wide area.