Matt Lanza

Everybody in their district doesn't want to be accused of cutting something that impacts weather forecasts that leads to a tragedy in their town.

So the Senate came together and said, no, we're not going to do these cuts.

Sorry.

In fact, we're going to actually increase funding to NOAA a little bit.

And we're going to keep all these agencies that you want to eliminate, all these research agencies that you want to eliminate.

Yeah, we're going to keep them all.

Okay, good.

But the House actually came back and said, yeah, actually, we're going to increase the funding.

So the hope here is that eventually, when all is said and done, this will be a moot point, the funding levels will hopefully be at least the same as they've been, if not a little bit higher, and all is hunky-dory and well with the world.

But hope is not always a strategy.

It even remains to be seen whether or not the administration even wants to play by the rules and do what Congress tasked them with.

We're living in an interesting time.

I don't want to say we're screwed because I think that that's a little strong.

Okay.

But suffice to say, I and most other meteorologists I know, we're all concerned, deeply concerned and troubled by what's been happening.

If you are the most fiscally disciplined individual and you believe that we should be very, very fiscally conservative as a country, that's fine.

But you're saving literally next to nothing.

But the cost that you're incurring because of that is significant.

And you're risking, you're playing with fire, literally and figuratively.

And you don't want to do that.