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Saturday, May 17, 2025

Jackson, KY -- Lead meteorologist counters story -- despite Meteorologist in Charge listed "vacant"

see NPR coverage from staff member C. Cassell

that they were "staffed" and had issued alerts ahead

of lethal storms in London & Somerset, KY

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A National Weather Service office in southeastern Kentucky

was scrambling to cover the overnight forecast on Friday

as severe storms were moving through much of the

Eastern United States // the office in 

Jackson, KY was one of four

lacking overnight

forecasters after hundreds of 

people left the NWS agency

as a result of cuts ordered by

Trump - Vance DOGE crew.

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