An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.”
Collection of the basic data about temperature, pressure, precipitation and the likes that goes into weather forecasts and becomes climate data is an inherently international affair.
Winding back the clock to the good old days, when we had high T storms and no radar :)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane
10,000 homeless, 12,000 dead. Out of 38,000 living there.