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Cheezoholic

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4. Many of the local offices are only manned during the day and some only during the week. AI is being used more also
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 07:27 PM
Jan 9

I (and I know BDRS and a few others) are weather nerds on here. I read the weather discussions from the NWS religiously several times a day. I am increasingly seeing very obvious ChatGPT or some other LLM being used to write the weather discussions because they often make no sense at all. To the extent that warning criteria for storms etc are being made automatically by AI from the collected weather data (mainly radar) I can't say but in the weather forums i hang out in there are NWS forecasters and they have said that warning issuance in smaller offices when they are unmanned, overnight, weekends, holidays etc. is being more and more automated as the surrounding offices that are manned are increasingly understaffed and a person may not get on top of it in time.

The bottom line is, due to the drastic cuts and closings that have been made there are times where human interaction with warning system may be delayed. The process thinking is better off to get a warni9ng out there on a borderline scenario than nothing at all. It all sucks and it ALL comes form these assholes cutting the organizations protecting us because THEY DONT CARE!!

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