NOAA was developing a way to predict extreme rainfall — until Trump officials stopped it

[John Farley]

Hey, Jeff, not sure if this helps, but here is an excerpt from the article naming the program being cut. Not sure if the program you mentioned falls under this or not:

The tool is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Atlas 15 project — a massive dataset that will show how often storms of a given duration and intensity could be expected to occur at locations across the United States. The project was intended to be published in two volumes: one that would assess communities’ current risks and a second that would project how those risks will change under future climate scenarios.

 

[Jeff Duda]

Oh geez...yeah, that's part of PMP.

Currently, extreme rainfall climatology is based on Atlas 14. Atlas 14 is already a really cool tool because you can get point-specific rainfall extreme frequencies from it (PF Map: Contiguous US). Atlas 14 has numerous shortcomings, however, which renders its values dubious in some areas and for some precip lengths. Atlas 15 was supposed to be a huge improvement. I sure hope Atlas 15 isn't cut...that will be a huge disservice to forecasting extreme and hazardous rainfall.