国家气象局的母公司的人员削减可能会危害纽约人的安全

舒默说，在国家海洋和大气管理局的裁员和支出削减可能会导致可靠的天气预报和肮脏的大湖区。

Staffing cuts of 10% or more at the parent agency of the National Weather Service could endanger the safety of New Yorkers and lead to less reliable weather forecasting and dirtier Great Lakes, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said today.

美国参议员查尔斯·舒默（Charles Schumer）今天说，在国家气象局的母公司的人员削减10％或以上可能会危害纽约人的安全，并导致可靠的天气预报和更肮脏的大湖。

Schumer said that layoffs and spending cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration could have serious consequences for New Yorkers.

舒默说，国家海洋和大气管理局的裁员和支出削减可能会对纽约人造成严重后果。

“I am deeply concerned these continuing drastic cuts will harm the emergency preparedness and safety of New York’s communities that face extreme weather,” Schumer said in a letter to a top NOAA official. “The public will suffer if these public services are not re-established.”

舒默在给NOAA顶级官员的一封信中说：“我非常担心这些持续的急剧削减将损害面临极端天气的纽约社区的紧急准备和安全性。” “如果不重建这些公共服务，公众将遭受痛苦。”

Schumer said that the Albany weather service office, one of five in New York state, has already suspended some of its twice-daily weather balloon launches that help forecast storms. Those balloons provide information from high altitudes, where weather systems develop.

舒默说，纽约州五个的奥尔巴尼气象局办公室已经暂停了一些每日两次的气温发射，这有助于预测风暴。这些气球提供来自天气系统发展的高海拔地区的信息。

Schumer said New York residents and farmers depend on weather service forecasts to help prepare for severe weather.

舒默说，纽约居民和农民依靠天气服务的预测来为恶劣的天气做准备。

“Upstate New York communities uniquely rely on these lifesaving federal services for storm tracking and emergency preparedness, whether it be for lake effect snowstorms, flooding or even extreme wind storms and tornadoes as we saw devastated communities across the state last summer,” Schumer wrote in a letter to Vice Admiral Nancy Hann, acting undersecretary of NOAA.

纽约州纽约州纽约社区独特地依靠这些救生的联邦服务来进行暴风雨跟踪和应急准备，无论是湖泊效应暴风雪，洪水，什至是极端的风暴风暴和龙卷风，因为我们去年夏天在全州看到了全州的社区。

A strong tornado struck the Oneida County city of Rome last July. In February, more than 10 feet of lake effect snow fell in two weeks in southern Oswego County.

去年7月，一场强大的龙卷风袭击了奥尼达县城市罗马。 2月，奥斯威戈县南部的两周内有超过10英尺的湖泊效应降雪。

Schumer also said the Michigan-based Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, which conducts research and monitors water quality, has now taken an “indefinite hiatus” from public communications.

舒默还说，总部位于密歇根州的大湖环境研究实验室进行了研究并监视水质，现在已经从公共通信中采取了“无限期的中断”。

In the letter, Schumer asked for more information on the cuts and the agency’s plans to “maintain and restore already suspended services.”

在信中，舒默要求提供有关削减的更多信息，以及该机构“维护和恢复已经停止服务”的计划。

A weather service spokeswoman did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

气象服务发言人没有立即回复发表评论的请求。

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