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Climate change trends and weather forecasting concerns
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Council Member Schulman asks about climate change trends, future heat waves, and concerns about potential changes to the National Weather Service. Christina Farrell from NYC Emergency Management discusses the city's reliance on federal weather forecasting services and the challenges that would arise if these services were reduced.
- NYC primarily relies on the National Weather Service for forecasting
- The city also has a smaller contract with a private weather forecaster
- Concerns are raised about potential changes to federal weather services
- Private contractors cannot fully replace NOAA and the National Weather Service for city and state governments
Lynn C. Schulman
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What trends are being seen due to climate change and what can New Yorkers expect to see regarding the timing and length of heat waves in the coming years?
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And as a supplement to that question, given that the federal government is looking to pull apart the National Weather Service on some level, What mechanism do we have to make sure that we are aware of what weather is coming to New York?
Christina Farrell
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I mean, our number one partner that we work with is National Weather Service.
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We continue we had calls with them last week based on some flooding concerns.
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So we are you know still working closely with them.
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You know I can't speak to what would happen if we start to lose more specific federal partners like the weather service, it would really hamper our ability to forecast.
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We also work with a we have a smaller contract with a private weather forecaster that we use you know, from time to time as we need them.
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But, know, NOAA and the National Weather Service cannot be cannot be replaced for city and and state governments with, you know, some private contractors.