Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas

“It will be a heavy, important rain event that the signal was there,” Vagasky said. “But you can do this, which will make it falling.”

Flash floods in this part of Texas are nothing new. The eight-inch rain in the state says “It can be a day in a day,” Matt Lanza is a certified meteorologist located in Houston. This is a problem, it often balances the forecasts that often ramble the public for these rare but serious storms.

“It is very difficult to warn this every day to understand how this work can change the meteorology and how quickly this work can change it,” Lanza said. “In the really attachment, when you have a risk for heavy rain in Texas, you must be a guard.”

And meteorologists say they are nws contained Send adequate warnings as updated information. He had given a thursday afternoon flood For the area and a flash flood warning was valid on Friday. The agency had a flood left emergency Up to 4:30 warning.

“The air service was on the ball,” says Vagasky. “They removed the message.”

But like local outlet kren First reportedOf course, after the warning of the first flood warnings sent to the public, Safe was sent on Facebook.

“The warning was given a break between what was given and how people were, and I think this is the one that really needs to talk.”

The strained city of Kerrville reached the Texas Texas Ambulance Department for commentary in the Khan report.

As part of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), NOAA works this year and good reason: NWS lost More than 500 Since the beginning of the year since today employees leave some offices did not stop on one night. Also cut key programs and even satellites This helps to track excessive air. Meteorologists repeatedly say that these cuts will predict the extreme air, even as hard and climate change can be fatal and rain. However, both Vagasky and Lanza say this week’s predictions are strong.

“Indeed, only people want to understand that the forecast office in San Antonio is a fantastic job,” Vagansky said. “They were warned, but it was an extreme event. Rain rates in these six-hour periods were higher than 1000 years of rain. This shows that a chance in any year is less than 0.1 percent.”

Were some of the first changes made in NOAA due to Doge cuts The air balloon is put into operation completely reduced or eliminated across the country. However, including the balloons placed this week One was sent over Texas Thursday, showing a saturated atmosphere with slow-moving winds, giving it possible rainy rain, gave valuable information that helped to inform the forecasts.

“This information is helping,” said Lanza. “You probably can be worse, do you know? If you don’t have this information, you are dent.”