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About 317 billion times per year, members of the U.S. public check the weather on their phones,

TVs, or some other source. Those updates and alerts do everything from saving campers from

rainy days to saving lives during big disasters.

But what most of us don't realize is that behind those forecasts, there's a single, often

invisible engine, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service.

Now this federal agency, which serves as the backbone of U.S. forecasting, is under threat. What happens when the

country's most trusted source of extreme weather alerts can't staff the night shift? Our guest

today is Andrea Thompson, editor at Scientific American who covers the environment, energy, and earth

sciences. She's here to talk about how deep staffing cuts and proposed funding reductions are straining this vital agency right as the summer months begin, bringing the threat of tornadoes, hurricanes, and wildfires.

Thanks so much for coming to chat with us today.

Thanks for having me.

So let's start with a basic question.

What is the National Weather Service? What do they do for us?

So the National Weather Service is really what provides all of the weather forecasting for the U.S. So even if you're opening up your weather app on your phone, if you're tuning into your TV broadcast, all of that information comes originally from the National Weather Service. So they take up all the data for temperature, humidity, precipitation that's

happening, feed it into their forecast models and put out the forecast for the entire country

all day, every day. Yeah. So obviously pretty important. And what's been going on over there?

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