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  <pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[ The Pattern is-a-Changing!]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[There has been mention of a storm possible on the 19th or 20th next week, but I'm becoming skeptical that it'll be anything other than windy rain. However, the bigger picture is much more promising. Even if the storm fails to be a large snow producer in the middle of next week, the pattern will likely shift afterwards to one favoring more opportunities for snow to fall in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast. <br /><br />Here's the GFS ensemble mean for Christmas Eve, sho...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wunderground.com/blog/VaStormGuy/comment.html?entrynum=1&quot;&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;<img src="http://server.as5000.com/AS5000/adserver/image?ID=WUND-00070&C=0" width="0" height="0" border="0"/>]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[ Why the NWS losing funding makes no sense]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Let's look at the numbers, shall we?<br /><br />In FY 2012, the budget for the National Weather Service was 988.0M dollars. This is a 2M dollar decrease from FY 2011 and an 11M dollar decrease from 2010. 988M dollars is .026% of the total budget which was $3.796T dollars (in expenditures) in FY2012.<br /><br /><br />By contrast, the government spent 683B on the military, and 891B on programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.<br /><br />The NWS budget is .063% of the si...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wunderground.com/blog/VaStormGuy/comment.html?entrynum=0&quot;&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;<img src="http://server.as5000.com/AS5000/adserver/image?ID=WUND-00070&C=0" width="0" height="0" border="0"/>]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 03:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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