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- **Posted:** 2025-02-05T22:10:06.000+00:00
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Neil Jacobs, who was acting administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 2019 when President Trump altered an expected hurricane impact map — an incident known as “Sharpie-gate” — has again been picked by Trump to lead the agency.

Jacobs, an atmospheric scientist who has worked in both the public and private sectors over the last two decades, and other leaders of the agency were criticized in a Department of Commerce inspector general’s report about the incident.

On September 1, 2019, as the National Weather Service was forecasting that Hurricane Dorian would move up the Atlantic coast, Trump incorrectly tweeted that Alabama was in the storm’s path.

Later that day, the National Weather Service in Alabama tweeted, “Alabama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian.”

Three days later, Trump insisted that the storm had previously been on a course for the state. He displayed a week-old map of the storm path, altered with a black marker to portray the hurricane as potentially heading for Alabama.

“That was the original chart,” Trump said. “It was going to hit not only Georgia but Florida. It was going toward the Gulf.”

The hurricane ultimately didn’t make landfall in the United States, or come close to Alabama.

Soon after, the NOAA’s leadership released a statement that backed Trump and criticized the work of its weather forecasters. The inspector general’s report said the statement “unnecessarily rebuked NWS forecasters…for doing their jobs.”

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