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Things are heating up at the National Hurricane Center (NHC). While Nature isn’t brewing up any storms, the new director’s job appears to be in jeopardy as a special NOAA task force has been dispatched to conduct an investigation. Disruptive, says the director, Bill Proenza.
Proenza has criticized his supervisors at NOAA for not funding the center adequately and for not replacing QuickSCAT, an aging forecast satellite. Meanwhile, three forecasters at the NHC have called for Proenza’s ouster.
”I don’t think that Bill can continue here,” said James Franklin, one of five senior forecasters at the center. “I don’t think he can be an effective leader.”
Let’s hope they sort it out before the real tempests arrive.
UPDATE: Proenza says he won’t leave, even though half his staff now wants him out.
