I wrote a few days about how cuts to NOAA and the National Weather Service would make weather forecasts, including hurricane forecasts and severe weather warnings, less reliable in the future. Here are a couple of additional stories that explain how the cuts would reduce the quality of NWS products.

New Scientist: Four ways cuts at NOAA will make weather forecasts less reliable

WGN: Tom Skilling leads a panel to discuss what federal staff cuts at NOAA will mean (30 minute podcast)

Lt. John Meisenheimer, the Air Force weather liaison officer at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, gave the weather forecast for the launch of Explorer 1 in late January 1958. Here he is pictured at the Cape in 1956. (Courtesy of John Meisenheimer)