What If the Weather Warning Became a Subscription? The Next Storm Hits BLIND.

Podcast: What Comes Next · What Comes Next

Opublikowano: 2026-10-23

In March 2025, the weather office in Omaha, Nebraska stopped launching its weather balloons. Chapter 21 of Project 2025 says NOAA "should be broken up and downsized" and that the National Weather Service "should fully commercialize its forecasting operations." Chapter 5 asks to shift most disaster costs from Washington to the states. This episode follows one storm from the warning before it to the help after it, and checks each step against the public record. The weather service lost about 600 people during 2025, and 34 members of Congress tied missing balloon launches to a late tornado watch in Kansas in April 2026. Omaha's launches resumed about a...