National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Everything in blue is gonna be underwater.

Green is low-lying areas by the NOAA satellite.

NASA.

So what are the mechanisms of saltwater intrusion? This diagram is a simplified version.

Their customers were commercial as well as some government.

So I worked on the GOES-R series spacecraft for NOAA.

We were validating our ground systems with the specialists who know how to do this stuff from the FDF.

That's how I learned what the FDF even existed.

Trump's cuts have left the U.S. exposed to a cascade of El Nino dangers.

Former NOAA officials warn the 2015 El Nino got ships, planes, and drones.

This one gets a handful of unmanned watercraft.

The NOAA Climate Prediction Center puts the odds at 83% that this winter's El Nino is the strongest since records began in 1950.

The expected effects on the United States run coast to coast.

Supercharged storms in the west, debris flows and flash floods in burn scars, sea levels along California up to a foot higher than normal, a wet and stormy south.

NOAA has lost more than 3,000 staff since January of 2025, about a fifth of its workforce yesterday.

and hired 525 replacements.

NASA's using commercial providers now for launch as well as, you know, moon landing and other things and applying those technologies out there.

You have very innovative companies, you know, Redwire, Intuitive Machines that are out there building things and deploying them so that they can prove, you know, in a demonstrated, you know, real world environment, we have this and then, you know, customers like a NASA or NOAA or, you know, US Space Force can then, or even the intelligence community can then take these capabilities and apply them to their mission space.

You know, Damien, a CEO sitting in Chicago somewhere is going to say, oh, how does this technology, how does it make a difference? And you're going to have to defend it.

But we're talking about, you know, national security infrastructure here.

And then just kind of notice how things look a little greener and bluer, minus the cloud cover you see on the right side of your screen over Colorado and New Mexico.

And that image, of course, comes to us courtesy of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere and NOAA and the NOAA satellite.

So, folks, that does it for First Alert Weather Extra here on this Wednesday afternoon.

Thanks for joining me.

And these disasters are closer together, they're in new places, and there's more destruction.

And that very much aligns with the NOAA data and everything that we kind of recognize about what the data tells us about the impacts of disaster and extreme weather.

And what that kind of surfaced is that a lot of the infrastructure in our country needs to change to handle this future ahead.

And sending money to charity, while a really important element of providing communities with relief, there was really no durable source of capital or a system that just has us rebuild like for like exactly what was there before.

Yeah.

Talking about the wind-up radio thing, one thing every household should have is a weather radio from NOAA with an alert feature, and it all typically come with a 9-volt battery backup.

That is a must-have.

You've got to have constant weather alerts.

Visibility is down to 3 miles and relative humidity is at 89%.

Weather from around the world is brought to you by a crowd of crowdsourced weather stations that a crowd crowdsources from around the world aggregated by the outlawed National Weather Service and the equally outlawed National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

They refuse to bend the knee.

They refuse to sharpie, which makes this forecast then truly from the weather underground.