On Feb 13, 10:40 am, "Jay Honeck" wrote:
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/forecast/Map...DVN&map.x=121&...

(orhttp://tinyurl.com/39s8j5if that URL wraps...)

Does anyone else find it disturbing that the National Weather Service
in the United States is paying out taxpayer money to a government
employee to create a foreign-language web page?

I do not find it disturbing, for three reasons...
1. I don't live in the US nor am I an expatriate.
2. I understand that Spanish is and will continue to be a reasonably
widely spoken language in many parts of the US. It would I expect be
part of the directive of the NWS that it should make weather
information available to as many people as practical, and that means
Spanish is a good idea.
3. As a web developer (programmer, not design), I can tell you that
provided the site was designed right (and from the outside I'd say
it's likely) the translation is a piece of cake, and even the weather
reports linked to are likely automatically translated as they appear
to be in a largely fixed format and easily translated even via a
simple lookup table. As such, the extra cost involved was likely only
at the stage of developing the website, and probably very minimal
(we're talking only a couple of days extra work), I imagine there is
little or no ongoing translation work required.