Neil Jacobs, appearing administrator for the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, speaks at NOAA’s 2019 Hurricane Season Outlook press convention in Arlington, Va., on Might 23, 2019. Win McNamee/Getty Photographs
Simply days after catastrophic flash floods devastated Central Texas, President Donald Trump’s nominee to guide the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) informed the Senate on July 9 that he would search enhancements to the company’s climate forecasting and warning capabilities regardless of latest price range cuts.
Neil Jacobs, a meteorologist who headed NOAA on an appearing foundation through the first Trump administration, testified earlier than the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee lower than per week after floods claimed the lives of a minimum of 119 folks in Texas’s Hill Nation, with a minimum of 173 nonetheless lacking.