NWS to be more fully integrated into NOAA

[wxmann_91]

http://www.weather.gov/banners/nws.php

Good idea? Bad? What do you think?

(BTW, I noticed this was mentioned in an article in another thread, but I wanted to see opinions in here as well.)

[ncupsscweather]

Humm? well it would be a different look and better to navigate. So yea in my opinion

[Aslkahuna]

An axiom in Government is that the larger the Empire, the less efficient and more corrupt it becomes.

Steve

[Jam151]

After reading the following article my decision became quite clear...

http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=94675

Here's a clip...

That celebration is part of a broader campaign to publicize NOAA and its leaders, Proenza and other critics said, while diminishing the identity of its best-known components, the National Weather Service and the hurricane center.

Meanwhile, Proenza said, NOAA has cut $700,000 from a crucial hurricane research program and allowed other important initiatives to go unfunded, but it wants to spend money to change the widely recognized center's name to the ``NOAA Hurricane Center.''

In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Proenza and former hurricane center director Max Mayfield said, NOAA even ordered them to remove the National Weather Service logo from official tracking maps and retain only the NOAA logo. They refused.

''It's getting to the point where I cannot tolerate this,'' Proenza told The Miami Herald when asked about critical comments from emergency managers about NOAA's budget priorities and its public relations campaigns.

[StormScanWx]

Probably takes money to change all this, right? They should use that on something better, like research.

[JonathanBelles]

So NWS and NHC are being changed?