Matt Lanza

And that ship's sailed, right?

So that's done.

Because of the staffing cuts, they can't launch weather balloons as frequently in some parts of the country.

That's a problem because then you lose some of the inputs to weather model data that are really important.

And like you think about what's 2025, we're still launching weather balloons, but the reality is that's one of the most critical inputs to weather models is getting this truth from the upper atmosphere.

You know, you launch a weather balloon, you take all these readings and all that stuff kind of gets ingested into models and the models do better.

They're based on what the atmosphere looks like in a 3D perspective, and that's what helps.

because no one lives 20,000 feet up.

The issue is that the proposed budget for 2026, I mean, it just took a machete to NOAA.

And what people don't realize is that all this research is so critically important to our understanding of weather and our understanding of weather forecasting related to hurricanes.

One of the proposed cuts was to eliminate the Hurricane Research Division, which is run in Miami.

And you do that, and your forecasts aren't going to get any better.

They may even regress.

So.

It's it's it's counter everything.

Now, here's the good news.

The good news is that Congress, sometimes they can be the grownups in the room.

And weather generally is a very bipartisan issue.

Weather affects everybody.

They don't care who you voted for.