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Experts say US weather forecasts will worsen as DOGE cuts mean fewer balloon launches

Journal Gazette 25 Mar 2025
... ready it for launch making sure the radiosonde doesn't drag on the ground, said Friday, who recalled launching a balloon in Nome, Alaska with 30 mph winds and windchill of about 30 degrees below zero.
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Experts say federal cuts will degrade weather forecasts, ‘embarrassing’ national agency

The Oregonian 23 Mar 2025
... ready it for launch making sure the radiosonde doesn’t drag on the ground, said Friday, who recalled launching a balloon in Nome, Alaska with 30 mph winds and windchill of about 30 degrees below zero.
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Experts say US weather forecasts will worsen as DOGE cuts balloon launches

Bangor Daily News 22 Mar 2025
... it for launch making sure the radiosonde doesn’t drag on the ground, said Friday, who recalled launching a balloon in Nome, Alaska with 30 mph winds and windchill of about 30 degrees below zero.
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Plane that crashed and killed 10 in Alaska was more than 1K pounds overweight, NTSB says

Usatoday 21 Mar 2025
The Cessna 208B Grand Caravan aircraft operated by Bering Air was making a 150-mile trip from Unalakleet, Alaska, to Nome, Alaska, a regularly scheduled commuter flight that traverses the Norton Sound, when it crashed on Feb.
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NTSB Focuses on Cessna 208B Weight as Cause of Crash in Alaska, Killing 10

Flying 20 Mar 2025
The aircraft was operated by Bering Air, a charter carrier that offers scheduled service from 32 villages in western Alaska operating out of Nome, Kotzebue, and Unalakleet ... At 3.12 p.m., Nome Airport ...
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NTSB: Bering Air plane was overloaded prior to crash near Nome, Alaska, that killed 10

The Brunswick News 19 Mar 2025
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Bering Air flight that crashed near Nome last month, killing the pilot and all nine passengers, was more than 1,000 pounds too heavy for the icy weather it was flying into, according to a National Transportation ... .
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Shocking reason for deadly Alaska plane crash that killed all 10 people on-board | Daily ...

The Daily Mail 19 Mar 2025
The large weather front over Western Alaska also created the potential for ice buildup as the plane neared the airport in Nome, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a.
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Bering Air plane that crashed in Alaska was overweight before it took off, new NTSB ...

CNN 19 Mar 2025
The Cessna Grand Caravan operated by Bering Air as flight 445 crashed about 34 miles southeast of Nome, Alaska, on February 6 ... The tragedy shook the city of Nome, a community accustomed to travel by small plane across Alaska’s vast landscapes.
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Missing Plane Alaska Report

Citrus County Chronicle 19 Mar 2025
FILE - This photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard on Feb. 7, 2025, shows a small commuter plane that crashed in western Alaska on a flight that was bound for the hub community of Nome ... .
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Alaska plane that crashed and killed 10 was too heavy for conditions, NTSB report says

NBC News 19 Mar 2025
A Cessna plane that crashed while flying to Nome, Alaska, last month, killing all 10 people on board, was hundreds of pounds too heavy for icing conditions, a National Transportation Safety Board report says ... .
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90s kids left devastated as mastermind behind legendary children's show dies aged 58 | Daily ...

The Daily Mail 19 Mar 2025
Cohen also wrote the 1995 animated film Balto, produced by Steven Spielberg, which dramatized the real story of a husky who led a transport of medicine through a brutal winter to rescue the town of Nome, Alaska from a diphtheria outbreak in 1925.
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Holy Cow! History: America’s worst tornado, 100 years later

Lima Ohio 18 Mar 2025
Winter is rarely a bed of roses, and 1925 had been a particularly rough one. A late January blizzard had dumped up to 4 feet of snow in some parts of the Northeast. In Alaska, a diphtheria outbreak threatened the remote town of Nome ... Hospitals from St ... .
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Duluth racer Emily Ford finishes 18th in Iditarod

Duluth News Tribune 17 Mar 2025
Emerging from a field of 33 entries, she was the third rookie to cross the finish line in Nome, Alaska ... A little over 18 hours later, she made it to the final checkpoint in Nome ... adventures in Alaska.
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HOLY COW! HISTORY: America\u2019s Worst Tornado, 100 Years Later

Albuquerque Journal 17 Mar 2025
America\u2019s Worst Tornado, 100 Years Later. STORY. A late January blizzard had dumped up to 4 feet of snow in some parts of the Northeast. In Alaska, a diphtheria outbreak threatened the remote town of Nome ... × This page requires Javascript ... J.
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