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The National Weather Service Is Understaffed and Underfunded. Here’s Why That Matters.
Summer Brings Hurricanes, Tornadoes and Extreme Heat—And an Underresourced National Weather Service What happens when the U.S.’s most trusted source of extreme weather alerts can’t staff the night shift? By Rachel Feltman, Andrea Thompson & Fonda Mwangi Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. About 317 billion times per year members of…