The Trump administration’s federal hiring freeze is squeezing the team of meteorologists who help air traffic controllers inform pilots about the weather minute-by-minute as they steer airplanes in and out of the Bay Area’s three major airports.

  • @disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    His NOAA budget cuts also reduced the number of weather balloons sent up every day. Meteorologists are all sounding alarms that this will result in unnecessary deaths.