>>509620796You're stupid. NOAA is largely automated today. Through ground stations and Sats going through A.I.
Simple proof is your Google phone and its built in weather predictions of the next week.
There is some staff running through the data and technicians servicing any equipment. There is also military handling it, and public reaserch, like university's and reaserch. Military require accuracy for flight and many other factors like response to extremes.
What funding was cut? It has become far more automated today. Most of it is. Outside of academics profiting on their soothsaying. Some of them stopped receiving grants for their soothsaying. The ice-caps are melting, repent. That's what got cut. Academia. Not the automated systems.