{"id":8926,"date":"2016-11-04T08:21:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T12:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8926"},"modified":"2016-11-04T08:21:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T12:21:25","slug":"changes-to-the-national-weather-service-could-affect-forecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/11\/changes-to-the-national-weather-service-could-affect-forecasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to the National Weather Service could affect forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service is considering making changes to the way forecasts are made and disseminated. \u00a0According to their press release <a href=\"https:\/\/service.meltwaternews.com\/mnews\/redirect.html?docId=7943019&amp;userId=407228&amp;cId=114089&amp;pId=11&amp;agentId=447765&amp;type=3&amp;etype=USER_CREATED&amp;t=Evolving+the+National+Weather+Service&amp;cdt=1478016180000&amp;sn=NOAA&amp;cc=United+States&amp;surl=&amp;an=Clicked+from+Archive%2C+Newsfeed%2C+or+Newsletter&amp;ue=kheideman@ametsoc.org&amp;url=\">here<\/a>, they are planning to &#8220;realign staff and functions to deliver weather forecasts and warnings more effectively.&#8221; \u00a0While they say that it will not result in the closure of local NWS offices, it may result in reductions of staff and hours in some places.<\/p>\n<p>Some NWS employees also worry that local forecasts will be degraded in the name of consistency over local personalization. \u00a0The <em>Palm Beach Post<\/em> has an article which describes the change in more detail at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mypalmbeachpost.com\/news\/weather\/weather-service-says-increase-in-severe-events-is-\/nswCF\/\">https:\/\/www.mypalmbeachpost.com\/news\/weather\/weather-service-says-increase-in-severe-events-is-\/nswCF\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/nws-logo-circle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1935\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/nws-logo-circle.jpg\" alt=\"nws logo circle\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/nws-logo-circle.jpg 225w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/nws-logo-circle-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/nws-logo-circle-138x138.jpg 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service is considering making changes to the way forecasts are made and disseminated. \u00a0According to their press release here, they are planning to &#8220;realign staff and functions to deliver weather forecasts and warnings more effectively.&#8221; \u00a0While they say that it will not result in the closure of local NWS offices, it may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8970,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8926\/revisions\/8970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}