Article snippet: A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) statement affirming MORE's remarks over the threat of Hurricane Dorian to Alabama is drawing sharp backlash from meteorologists and former officials. Several former officials have accused the administration of caving to political pressure after NOAA disavowed a days-old tweet from the National Weather Service (NWS) that refuted Trump's claim about the storm's path. Trump spent several days defending himself while criticizing pushback from the media and meteorologists who questioned his claim while noting that numerous projections showed the storm tracking farther east. Former NOAA Chief Operating Officer David Titley blasted the NOAA statement, saying it represented "perhaps the darkest day ever for @noaa leadership." "Don’t know how they will ever look their workforce in the eye again. Moral cowardice," he tweeted. Monica Medina, who worked as NOAA’s general counsel, tweeted Friday, “As a former @NOAA leader I can say two things with certainty. No NOAA Administrator I worked for would have done this. And I would have quit if I had been directed to agree to let this BS go out.” Dan Sobien, head of the National Weather Service Employees Organization, which represents thousands of workers under NOAA, said federal workers were "shocked, stunned and irate" with NOAA siding with Trump. Sobien told The Daily Beast in an interview that “never ever before has their management thrown [employees] under the bus like t... Link to the full article to read more