What Next: TBD | Rerun: Death of the Weather Forecast?

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🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This episode was originally published on April 27, 2025. The Trump administration has already begun cutting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which includes the U.S. National Weather Service. What’s the advantage to understanding the weather less? Guest: Daniel Swain, weather and climate scientist with the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources. Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Evan Campbell and Patrick Fort. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.3	today. Hello, TBD listeners, it's Lizzie. Since it is a holiday, we are taking a little
0:36.6	time off, but don't worry, we'll be back again
0:39.1	on Sunday with an all-new episode. In the meantime, I wanted to replay one of my favorites from
0:44.5	this spring. It's called Death of the Weather Forecast. You have probably been feeling
0:50.6	some of the extreme heat lately, and with cuts to the National Weather Service,
0:55.7	are we looking at a future where we won't be able to safely predict hurricanes, tornadoes,
1:01.5	and deadly heat waves? You can find out in my conversation with Daniel Swain, a weather and
1:07.2	climate scientist at the University of California. Okay, here's the show.
1:17.7	Yeah, we are continuing to follow up on some of this storm damage that really has hit Kentucky.
1:23.1	We're currently in Estelle County on Furnace Junction Drive.
1:26.3	Take a look at this home behind me.
1:28.4	It has been absolutely crushed by a tree. Earlier this month, a series of powerful storms ripped
1:34.4	across the plains, Midwest, and South, causing severe damage in Tennessee, Missouri, and Kentucky.
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