Can you trust weather forecasts during a government shutdown?
(AccuWeather provides the weather forecasts for USA TODAY, both in print and online.) Bill Hopkins, executive vice president of the National Weather Service Employees Organization, said employees continue to push out reliable weather information while working for free. "We’re still putting out valid forecasts and valid warnings," said Hopkins. "I think the American people should still feel safe." When asked whether the shutdown was affecting their forecasting, meteorologist James Lee at the weather service's Baltimore/Washington forecast ...
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