Nancy Gaarder
News Reporter at Freelance
Midwesterner. Former newspaper reporter. Author of ‘Nebraska Weather. ‘ If I'm outdoors, I'm happy. ‘
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3 weeks ago |
norfolkdailynews.com | Nancy Gaarder
The National Weather Service’s recent decision to suspend weather balloon launches in Omaha and elsewhere will likely reduce the quality of weather forecasts, particularly during severe weather, meteorologists told the Flatwater Free Press. On Thursday, weather service offices in Omaha and Rapid City, South Dakota, stopped deploying weather balloons. On the same day, six other weather stations in the central U.S, including at North Platte, halved their use of balloons, a key tool in forecasting.
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3 weeks ago |
journalstar.com | Nancy Gaarder
The National Weather Service’s recent decision to suspend weather balloon launches in Omaha and elsewhere will likely reduce the quality of weather forecasts, particularly during severe weather, meteorologists told the Flatwater Free Press. On Thursday, weather service offices in Omaha and Rapid City, South Dakota, stopped deploying weather balloons. On the same day, six other weather stations in the central U.S, including at North Platte, halved their use of balloons, a key tool in forecasting.
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3 weeks ago |
dcpostgazette.com | Nancy Gaarder
VALLEY – Last week’s blizzard, the deadly Pilger tornadoes and Hurricane Sandy share something in common: People got a better heads-up due to a forecasting tool now being grounded as the Trump administration slashes the federal government. On Thursday, National Weather Service offices in Omaha and Rapid City, South Dakota, stopped deploying weather balloons, a key tool in forecasting.
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3 weeks ago |
northeast.newschannelnebraska.com | Nancy Gaarder
Last week’s blizzard, the deadly Pilger tornadoes and Hurricane Sandy share something in common: People got a better heads-up due to a forecasting tool now being grounded as the Trump administration slashes the federal government. On Thursday, National Weather Service offices in Omaha and Rapid City, South Dakota, stopped deploying weather balloons, a key tool in forecasting. On the same day, six other weather stations in the central U.S, including at North Platte, halved their use of balloons.
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1 month ago |
flatwaterfreepress.org | Nancy Gaarder
Last week’s blizzard, the deadly Pilger tornadoes and Hurricane Sandy share something in common: People got a better heads-up due to a forecasting tool now being grounded as the Trump administration slashes the federal government. On Thursday, National Weather Service offices in Omaha and Rapid City, South Dakota, stopped deploying weather balloons, a key tool in forecasting. On the same day, six other weather stations in the central U.S, including at North Platte, halved their use of balloons.
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Iowa, like Nebraska, allows building in flood plains. Both states have seen repeat catastrophic flooding in the last 20-30 years. (PS this is true of every state. Developers love floodplains bc they are cheaper to build on)
Nunn: I'm from a small farm state. When we get decimated by tornadoes, we expect the rest of the country is going to come to our assistance... But we also need to be asking, we don't want to continue to pay hundreds of billions to a situation that finds itself… https://t.co/IU5GpTjKcQ
We had a warning like this in Nebraska in 2019, and sadly, too many people didn’t believe it.
Everybody in Western North Carolina should read this. From @NWSGSP #ncwx #scwx https://t.co/AmGhjiztu7
Until the late 1990s, Omaha was home to a massive lead refinery that emitted tons of ‘bioavailable lead’ into the air. Wouldn’t it be a fascinating to find out if educational outcomes improved and unusually high special Ed/delinquency rates dropped for those born after that?
It also predicts violent behavior in adulthood. Some people think the fall in US crime rates in the 1990s was partly caused by the ban on lead paint and the phaseout of leaded gasoline, which both began two decades earlier. Lead has damaging effects on other organ systems too.
