While many of us are upset about reckless budget cuts causing the loss of many important jobs in NOAA and the National Weather Service (at least according to current news reports and what I'm hearing from several meteorologists), here is some good news locally: The Winchester transmitter across the Tennessee line has been restored to service in plenty of time for any severe thunderstorms we may see Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. Major thanks and respect to our local National Weather Service in Huntsville and to Bud Cramer and John Gordon for getting us that office since 2003, also to our neighbors in Birmingham, Nashville, Memphis, Jackson, Peachtree City, Mobile, Tallahassee, and so on. I don't know where this dumpster fire is going to end up, but we appreciate the people we've got. Hope to keep as many as possible in our region.
The truth is even if an office in Alaska is short-staffed and has to suspend radiosonde launches, that hurts the rest of us, because our computer models are going to initialize with less global (or North American) data than they normally have. We have some really smart, hard-working, caring people at the offices in our region. So they'll make the best of whatever happens. A lot of this, we have no control over. But I hope we can make enough noise to mitigate the damage to the services these people provide. And whatever happens, let's try to remind our NWS personnel that they are appreciated. Even if that's just taking a SKYWARN class before Spring is over. Those are free.
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Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Huntsville AL
1209 PM CST Thu Feb 27 2025
...Winchester NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards Station Is Back In
Service...
NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards transmitter WNG-554 operating on a
frequency of 162.500 MHz is back in service.
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RSB
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