Headline on CNN This Morning - Superstorm Sandy

A MUST READ article about Superstorm Sandy and how the European model was able to forecast the unprecedented storm is the headline on CNN.com this morning.  Unfortunately, budget cuts in the United States are in the process of jeopardizing all the improvements that have been made in weather forecasting over the past 30 years.  Two of our main weather forecasting satellites will be dying soon and we have no replacements on order currently.  Without these satellites, the European model would not have been able to forecast Superstorm Sandy's eventual turn that took her into New Jersey.  Click here to read this fantastic article that is the headline on CNN.com this morning.

And HERE IS ANOTHER MUST READ article about how the European model managed to forecast the unprecedented turn this storm took and how it would not have been able to forecast this turn without the satellites in place that are due to die in the next couple of years.