"Back-To-Back Storms And No Pay For Federal Weather Forecasters"

"The weather clearly does not care that the U.S. government is partially shut down.

A series of storms has thwacked California, the Midwest and large portions of the East Coast in the past week, dropping rain, downing trees, coating roads in ice and burying cities in snow. An ongoing storm is expected to drop up to 2 feet of snow in parts of New England this weekend.

Of course, we know all of this because despite the government shutdown, the National Weather Service is still publishing timely forecasts and warnings that newspapers, TV meteorologists, weather websites and local emergency officials rely on."

Rebecca Hersher reports for NPR January 18, 2019.

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