Schumer said inadequate computer systems at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were responsible for tentative forecasts that showed the storm could smack New York and the East Coast. The opposite and more deadly mistake was made in advance of Hurricane Sandy--the first forecasts missed the fact that it would barrel into NY and NJ with destructive force.
Schumer said $245 million in cuts proposed by Congress could further decimate NOAA's ability to predict powerful storms. "It is just plain dumb to cut hundreds of millions from our weather satellite system just when catastrophic storms are getting more extreme and more frequent," he said. Schumer warned that without the money, by 2016 NOAA would be left with only one functioning satellite, decimating its forecasting ability.
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The above quotations are from Media coverage of New York political races in The New York Daily News.
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