IF WE JUST GIVE THE NWS ANOTHER BILLION, THEY WON’T BE INCOMPETENT

Don’t mess with the National Weather Service.

It only took a few hours before the mainstream media faux journalists began to peddle the statist excuses for the National Weather Service epic failure. In a shocking development, the government loving Keynesian control freaks blame lack of funding for the complete and utter failure of a government agency to correctly predict the weather three hours in advance. Marketwatch printed this drivel by Tuesday afternoon:

The search is on for scapegoats after a missed weather forecast turned the City That Never Sleeps into a ghost town on Monday night. One prime suspect: budget woes at the National Weather Service.

The weather agency’s budget has hardly risen over the past five years, topping slightly over $1 billion for the current fiscal year. In the past decade, its budget has increased much slower than overall federal spending. The NWS was also was hurt by the so-called budget sequester in 2013 that required most federal agencies to cut spending and impose a hiring freeze.

The article blamed the awful austerity imposed on the NWS as the reason their computer models weren’t able to predict what would happen in the next six hours. Of course, their own words undercut their argument. The NWS uses multiple computer models to verify their forecast. They use the European model, along with their own models. Of course, all the models were wrong.

Burdened with aging supercomputers and satellites, the NWS needs a big overhaul to help improve its performance. Efforts are being made to rectify the problem and agency’s supercomputers are set for a expensive upgrade, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said earlier this month.

The computer upgrades are supposed to allow the NWS to close the gap with its European counterpart, which is viewed as more accurate weather-forecasting system. Yet the European model also erred badly in its forecast for the storm named Juno. The U.S. weather service ultimately predicted 18-24 inches and the European model estimated up to two feet of snow.

So let me get this straight. The NWS has 100,000 times the computing power used to put a man on the moon, but they can’t predict what a storm will do a few hours before it is supposed to hit. That sure gives me confidence in the models they reference when warning us about the impending global warming disaster. It’s almost laughable. Except, the liberal control freaks use the data from these worthless computer models to impose rules, regulations, and taxes on the ignorant masses.

At least the article revealed the NWS is a bloated pig, with 5,000 union government drones, wasting $1 billion per year, and achieving almost 30% accuracy with their forecasts. The pressure on the 5,000 drones must be intense to maintain such low standards of accuracy. What exactly do these 5,000 people do? If all they do is push buttons and wait for a computer model to spit out a forecast, why do they need 5,000 government union drones?

Meanwhile, the union that represents many of the roughly 5,000 employees at the NWS has been complaining for years about a lack of hiring to help an overburdened staff. At one point in 2014, the National Weather Service Employees Organization asserted that 15% of the agency’s positions were unfilled.

The immediate call for more money is standard operating procedure for government bureaucrats and their mainstream media mouthpieces. It’s the exact storyline for when government operated schools achieve complete and utter failure. The $20,000 per student just isn’t enough. If we dump billions more into the hands of government unions they assure us the children will benefit. After 40 years of government controlling education, the population is dumber than ever. If we just give another billion to the NWS, I’m sure the accuracy of their forecasts will improve to 10%. When will people realize the government is a parasite of failure, run by incompetent, low IQ control freaks?

The National Weather Service just needs to take lessons from the BLS and other government drone agencies. Just spin the numbers and declare total accuracy.

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Westcoaster
Westcoaster

Outta the park, Admin!
If these fucks can’t get the job done with all the substantial horsepower available, dated or not, then let’s kick the bastards out and get someone who can:

starfcker
starfcker

Like all dot gov functions, the pressure from outside profiteers to grab a share of the budget pie is probably nonstop. My dad was a career big wheel in the hurricane hunters (pat buchanan’s best example of tax money spent wisely) in 2007, they got a new director, forced to resign for nonstop lobbying for new satellite s. Same guy (bill proenza) finally fired in 2012 from NWS for funneling money to venders.

Stucky

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Pay: A lot, but mostly depending on how big your tits are.

Let me be clear
Let me be clear
Brian
Brian
Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Everybody knows you don’t use the fucking European models!

Marc
Marc

“When will people realize government is a parasite of failure, run by incompetent, low IQ control freaks?”

I’m afraid the answer to that question is never and the reason is provided in a previous sentence.

“After 40 years of government controlling education ( federal government intervention), the population is dumber than ever.”

It doesn’t provide much comfort to know that when the host dies from an increasing lack of price discovery the parasites also perish. The printing press and brute force will keep things going for a while longer but exactly how much longer is unknown.

MuckAbout

I learned a l-o-n-g time ago that when you want a weather forecast, go outside and look up. Cloudy? Clear? Rainy? Windy? From which direction? Scan the horizon and if you don’t have a mountain in the way, you can see 60 miles at a slant range to determine if there are clouds coming along.

With that simple information (and your body as weather station/forecaster/tits or no tits) you can tell what’s going on right now with 100% confidence and with practice you can forecast very accurately what the weather will be for the next 30 minutes.

Beyond that, your screwed..

MA

overthecliff

Westcoaster , no wonder you have great weather in California!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

While we’re on the subject and for the record, Ms Jackie Johnson on KCBS-2 gets more time off than Obama. More than the station anchors, EVERY holiday. Makes one wonder……

yahsure
yahsure

I just finished reading DUTY, By Robert Gates.594 pages of crap. He did a lot of writing, but didn’t really say anything.
Anyone who was in the military or who has worked in government realizes how really bad the government is at doing anything.
Our country will be destroyed from within. Our only real enemy is the government.
The weather on the east coast.Anyone with any common sense just trys to be prepared for things like bad storms or power outages. Everyone should be a prepper. Never mind what some broad with big tits is saying. Your actually listening to what she is saying?

starfcker
starfcker

Westcoast, when channel 7 in miami hired her 15 years ago, the other stations had weatherMEN. 21 year old JJ was a ratings sensation, and the whole idea of the buxom babe weathergirl was born. Lots of things in life suck, that ain’t one of them

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

@Starfcker: Thanks for the info, I didn’t realize she’s the ORIGINAL weather-porn girl. Now if I could just stay awake ’til 11 🙂

starfcker
starfcker

Channel 7 replaced her with another girl named elita loresca, and you guys stole her, too. Channel 7 miami was definitely the pioneer

Kill Bill
Kill Bill

Weathermen, and women, are wrong half the time. What a great job.

You can be completely clueless and retain your yob.

Nick A
Nick A

Before we all get too carried away, now’s a good time to mention that if you want a job in one of the major Forecasting organizations (e.g. Met Office,) and some of the Private ones, (such as Noble Denton Weather Services), you’ll be needing a GOOD honours degree in Mathematics / Physics. and a Ph.D. in Mathematical Modelling.

The UK Met Office were particularly picky, so you had to have gone to the “right” University (they preferred Manchester / UMIST graduates, who should have done their Ph.D. at the UMRCC). Friend’s dad was deputy head of Systems Development (Cellular Modelling) at the Met., (1st Class Honours in Pure Mathematics from Aston (Birmingham), Ph.D. (UMRCC), Sc.D. (UMRCC)). Notice DEPUTY head.

Atmospheric modelling is not for the “academically lightweight”, and yes, you DO need the fastest machines available, since the demand for real-time forecasting is growing, Worldwide.

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