Meteorologists say that the national weather service has done its work in Texas

“The signal existed until this would be a heavy event, so the rains have been “But specifying where exactly that will fall, you cannot do that.”

Sudden floods in this part of Texas are not new. Matt Lanza, an accredited digital meteorologist in Houston, says eight inches of rain in the state “can be on a day ending in Y. It is a challenge, he says, to balance predictions that often show large amounts of rain with how the audience is sufficiently prepared for these rare but dangerous storms.

“It is extremely difficult to warn of this – to get general employees who do not know meteorology and do not look at this every day to understand how quickly these things change,” says Lanza. “In fact, the biggest ready -made meals are that the more dangerous of heavy rains in Texas, the more ready it should be.”

Meteorologists say NWS an act Send sufficient warnings because she got updated information. By Thursday noon, I issued a Flood For the region, the sudden flood warning was valid by one o’clock on Friday. The agency issued a flash flood emergency Alert by 4:30 am.

“Weather service was on the ball,” says Vagasky. “They were raising the message.”

But as a local port KXan I mentioned for the first timeIt seems that the first warnings of the floods published from safety officials to the public on Facebook at 5 am, hours after the NWS version of its warning.

“It is clear that there was a collapse between when the warning was issued and how people got it, and I think this is what to really talk about,” Lanza says.

WIRED has arrived in Kerrville, Kerr County, and Texas Emergency Management Department to comment on the KXan report.

The discounts made on NOAA as part of President Donald Trump’s government efficiency management efforts have topped this year, and for a good reason: NWS was lost More than 500 Employees since the beginning of the year, and left some offices Unconfirmed overnight. It also cut the main programs and even Satellite This helps to track the harsh weather. Meteorologists have repeatedly said that these cuts will make harsh weather forecast more difficult – and can be fatal as shipments change in climate and increase rain. But both Vagasky and Lanza say that this week’s expectations were solid.

“I just want people to understand that the prediction office in San Antonio did a great job,” says Vagansky. “They came out of the warning, but this was an extreme event. Rain rains were over six hours above 1,000 rainfall. This is less than 0.1 percent of the chance of this in any specific year.”

Some of the first changes made in NOAA were due to Doug’s discounts The release of the weather balloon Throughout the country, it is completely reduced or eliminated. But the balloons that spread this week – including He sent someone over Texas On Thursday, which showed a saturated atmosphere with slow-moving winds, while giving heads of potential high rains-valuable information that helped inform expectations.

“This data helps,” says Lanza. “Maybe it could have been worse, as you know? If you don’t have this data, you are blind.”