>> U.S. numerical weather prediction (NWP), which uses computer simulation to predict future weather, should be the best in the world.

The author makes an important point, on a subject that keep getting more important due to climate change, but appeal to blind nationalism doesn't work in his favor.

It's not so much a bias a willful blindness at this point. I have to tolerate it coming from politicians, but it is a different story when the author present himself as a serious scientist.

Yes, the U.S. could be the best at meteorology. they could be the best at anything, with their means. But not at everything. The U.S. are the best at military spending, and everything else is at best in second place.