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A Chance of Funding Cuts In The National Weather Service Forecast
This week's weather column from Phillyweather.net's Tom Thunstrom covers storms of different types -- financial in Washington, meteorological locally.
If you have yet to hear the term “austerity” it will probably be one you will hear countless times in the future given the news over the weekend about our nation’s credit rating being knocked down a peg by Standard and Poor’s. Austerity is a philosophy of cutting services, spending, and reducing deficits, sometimes in concert with tax hikes in order to balance out spending gaps. Political beliefs and opinions aside, the austerity bell also tolls for meteorological research and forecasting. Jack Hayes, the director of the National Weather Service (NWS), spoke of the importance of his organization in light of the rather epic run of weather our nation has seen the last couple of years. With billions of dollars in spending likely to be cut in …
