{"id":230495,"date":"2026-06-12T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/she-used-a-i-to-create-better-forecasts-for-extreme-weather-then-her-funding-was-cut\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T05:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:35:19","slug":"she-used-a-i-to-create-better-forecasts-for-extreme-weather-then-her-funding-was-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/she-used-a-i-to-create-better-forecasts-for-extreme-weather-then-her-funding-was-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"She Used A.I. to Create Better Forecasts for Extreme Weather. Then Her Funding Was Cut."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/12\/science\/lost-science-ai-weather-forecasting.html\">She Used A.I. to Create Better Forecasts for Extreme Weather. Then Her Funding Was Cut.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/12\/science\/lost-science-ai-weather-forecasting.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/12\/science\/lost-science-ai-weather-forecasting.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-12 05:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.nytimes.com\">www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The &#8220;Lost Science&#8221; series features scientists affected by funding cuts from the Trump administration.<\/li>\n<li>Amy McGovern, a professor at the University of Oklahoma, pioneered using AI to improve extreme weather forecasting, including hurricanes and heat waves.<\/li>\n<li>Her team developed a $20 million AI institute to enhance weather predictions, benefiting both governmental and private sectors.<\/li>\n<li>Despite achievements, such as improving the timeliness and accuracy of various weather warnings, the institute&#8217;s funding was unexpectedly cut by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.<\/li>\n<li>The termination was attributed to the perception that the institute promoted &#8220;climate change hysteria,&#8221; though its focus was on extreme weather rather than long-term climate change.<\/li>\n<li>The loss of funding threatens to hinder progress and new discoveries in the field of AI-enhanced weather forecasting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She Used A.I. to Create Better Forecasts for Extreme Weather. Then Her Funding Was Cut&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/05\/14\/multimedia\/00cli-LOST-SCIENCE-MCGOVERN-stillpromo\/00cli-LOST-SCIENCE-MCGOVERN-stillpromo-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230497,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230495\/revisions\/230497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}