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How We Survive

Burning Questions: How do cuts to NOAA impact all of us?

How We Survive

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Business, News

51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

June marks the start of hurricane season but thanks to the climate crisis we’re dealing with extreme weather year-round. Just in the past month, deadly storms have devastated Kentucky and a brutal heat-wave is surging across the country. With the recent cuts to NOAA and the National Weather Service, weather stations are understaffed and weather forecasting might be impacted. In this episode of Burning Questions, host Amy Scott talks with former National Weather Service Director Louis Uccellinni to find out how the cuts to NOAA impact all of us. 



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It's about keeping

0:54.4

everything secure. June 1st marks the start of hurricane season, and one meteorologist in Miami

1:01.3

used the moment to deliver some pretty scary news. His name is John Morales, how we survive

1:08.3

listeners might remember him from our season on Miami.

1:11.9

And he kicked off this year's hurricane season playing an old clip of himself from 2019.

1:18.4

Listen, I've been on this, you know, since 8 o'clock this morning on social media, and there is a lot of anxiety out there.

1:26.5

On that late summer day six years ago, Hurricane Dorian, a powerful and destructive

1:33.1

category five hurricane looked like it might be headed for South Florida.

1:38.3

And people were scared.

1:39.8

Because you don't see it turning, right?

1:42.6

When is it going to turn?

1:43.8

John, it's not turning. It's coming

1:46.3

straight to us. With steady confidence, John told viewers the hurricane would definitely turn,

1:53.2

missing Florida. It's going to turn. All right. Now, John says he was able to make that

1:59.8

prediction six years ago with confidence, thanks to accurate forecasting from the National Weather Service.

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