"This week, a parade of scientists will spend 50 hours straight speaking about the importance of weather and climate research in the United States.
Now in its second year, the Weather & Climate Livestream will feature hundreds of scientists describing their work and why it matters. Last year’s event, which lasted 100 hours, saw more than 180,000 views and led to 30,000 phone calls to Congress to #SaveAmericasForecasts."
This week, a parade of scientists will spend 50 hours straight speaking about the importance of weather and climate research in the United States
Now in its second year, the Weather & Climate Livestream will feature hundreds of scientists describing their work and why it matters. Last year’s event, which lasted 100 hours, saw more than 180,000 views and led to 30,000 phone calls to Congress to #SaveAmericasForecasts
https://eos.org/research-and-developments/the-50-hour-livestream-that-aims-to-saveamericasforecasts
Weather & Climate scientists are on the 99th hour of a 100 live stream to get people to call their reps to save weather & climate science.
The history of the stream is at:
https://www.youtube.com/@wclivestream
The link to get to the request to call your reps is at https://wclivestream.com/act
The union of concerned scientists has a similar call to action at
https://secure.ucs.org/a/2025-reject-anti-science-attacks-budget-bill
Jeff Masters is currently telling the story of flying into Hurricane Hugo. They thought it was category 3, and were at 1500 feet.
It was actually category 5.
https://www.youtube.com/@wclivestream/live
at 6pm, he shared how the doppler radar was reporting the eye sensor was off scale.
The climate weather and client livestream continues. they're up to hour 51 of 100.
https://wclivestream.com/watch to view the stream
The content is they're having a bunch of different weather and climate scientists give 20 minute talks about their research.
Occasionally broken up by reminders to go call congress to save science funding.
https://wclivestream.com/act to get redirected to 5 calls to contact representatives.
Youtube has a limit of about 10 hours for a stream, so they have to occasionally relaunch their streams.
This url redirects to the latest version of their stream.
https://wclivestream.com/watch
Weather balloons reduce the global forecast error by about 10-20%
Interesting factoid, hurricanes found forcecasts that included dropsonde data were 24% more accurate.
Meteorologist Austen Onek
Robert Sanscartier
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Llewelyn Pritch
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