{"id":40944,"date":"2025-07-06T19:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T23:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=40944"},"modified":"2025-07-06T19:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T23:11:37","slug":"meteorologists-say-the-national-weather-service-did-its-job-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=40944","title":{"rendered":"Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/6869798496efdc8698cddbf1\/191:100\/w_1280,c_limit\/2222953080\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"152\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">DOGE cut hundreds of jobs at the NWS, but experts who spoke to WIRED say the agency accurately predicted the state&#8217;s weekend flood risk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/meteorologists-say-the-national-weather-service-did-its-job-in-texas\/\">Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>But meteorologists who spoke to WIRED say that the NWS accurately predicted the risk of flooding in Texas and could not have foreseen the extreme severity of the storm. What\u2019s more, they say that what the NWS did forecast this week underscores the need to sustain funding to the crucial agency.<br>&#8230;<br>And meteorologists say that the NWS\u00a0<em>did<\/em>\u00a0send out adequate warnings as it got updated information. By Thursday afternoon, it had issued a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSSanAntonio\/status\/1940856976067776984\" target=\"_blank\">flood watch<\/a>\u00a0for the area, and a flash flood warning was in effect by 1am Friday. The agency had issued a flash flood\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSSanAntonio\/status\/1941065290009453040\" target=\"_blank\">emergency<\/a>\u00a0alert by 4:30am.<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOGE cut hundreds of jobs at the NWS, but experts who spoke&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[870,513,934],"class_list":["post-40944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-floods","tag-texas","tag-weather","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40946,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40944\/revisions\/40946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}