Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
After a record-setting 20+ tornadoes in Upstate NY this month, with 10 occurring in just one day, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today stood at the University at Albany’s New York State Mesonet Operations Center and launched his push for $30 million in federal funding – a $10 million increase from last year – for advanced regional weather early warning systems program known as ‘mesonets,’ with Albany being the central hub for all NYS. Schumer said recent severe storms show how in the midst of global weather changes, storms can often move, meander, and mystify meteorologists, and that a state-of-the-art ability to track, monitor and inform a forecast matters more than ever to keep Upstate NY safe and prepared for extreme storms.