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Pentagon Halts Critical Hurricane Data Feed, Raising Alarm Ahead of Peak Storm Season

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Pentagon Halts Critical Hurricane Data Feed, Raising Alarm Ahead of Peak Storm Season - TechStory

The Department of Defense (DoD) has stopped transmitting real-time microwave data from three weather satellites critical to hurricane forecasting.
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This administration is all about destruction and anti science. Just the dumbest people imaginable.

They’re likely trying to break the NOAA / NWS so they can fully privatize it. Have enough people hurt by storms that were way easier to track with in the past, then the people turn on NES / NOAA and support destroying it, because most in this country are seriously uninformed.
 
Absentglare said:
Just pull up your sleeves and launch your own satellite weather detection system, dumbass libs!!
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This reminds me, I get a kick out of the people saying just follow the private weather shit, when those people also rely on NOAA / NWE data and satalites lol.

Also, because I know there are tons of people that think services should be profitable and make money, because the business brain rot has seeped deep into the minds of people. The NWS and NOAA are literal services, anyone trying to run them like a business and profit off a service, a service that is a necessity with our volatile weather across the country, is a grade a dipshit.
 

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Bonnot said:
techstory.in

Pentagon Halts Critical Hurricane Data Feed, Raising Alarm Ahead of Peak Storm Season - TechStory

The Department of Defense (DoD) has stopped transmitting real-time microwave data from three weather satellites critical to hurricane forecasting.
techstory.in techstory.in


This administration is all about destruction and anti science. Just the dumbest people imaginable.

They’re likely trying to break the NOAA / NWS so they can fully privatize it. Have enough people hurt by storms that were way easier to track with in the past, then the people turn on NES / NOAA and support destroying it, because most in this country are seriously uninformed.
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I fail to see how this move will save the taxpayers anything.
 
Yeah - this is going to have downstream impacts.

If trackers can’t know in real time how the eye of these storms is moving - and follow trends in real time - they’re going to miss in their forecasts about intensity and landfall.

It’s already tough enough getting folks out of the way - this will make it so that there’s even less of a window of warning.

Good luck to all those folks along those southern seaboards.

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Absentglare said:
Just pull up your sleeves and launch your own satellite weather detection system, dumbass libs!!
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Stealers Wheel said:
Actually, we already have. You're welcome! - signed, the taxpayers of America
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Yep, and that is why the Project 2025 document has a couple pages about abolishing NOAA and the NWS

  • Project 2025, the conservative policy blueprint for a Republican administration, said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration "should be broken up and downsized."

  • The document doesn’t explicitly call for getting rid of the National Weather Service, but it says it should "fully commercialize its forecasting operations."

See the sources for this fact-check
 
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A better explanation from that uber-librul media outlet NPR on the reasoning behind the shut-down of satellite-obtained weather info.

Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather data​

The U.S. Department of Defense will no longer provide satellite weather data, leaving hurricane forecasters without crucial information about storms as peak hurricane season looms in the Atlantic.

This week, the Department of Defense announced that it would no longer provide that data, according to a notice published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA.
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Is it the reasoning that access to weather satellite data could allow hackers to sneak into DoD computer systems, the reason for cutting off the info, OR is that excuse being used to cover for the Project 2025 proposal that such information should be paid for by the public?

A spokesperson for the U.S. Space Force, which is responsible for the satellites, said in a statement that the satellites and instruments are still functional, and the Department of Defense will continue to use them even as it cuts off access for scientists.

"It's not an issue of funding cuts," says Mark Serreze, the director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, a federally funded research center in Colorado that has relied on the soon-to-be-terminated Defense Department data to track sea ice since 1979. "There are cybersecurity concerns. That's what we're being told."
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There are other satellites looking down at our planet but the geeks who study the data in order to provide information to the public say the reduced number increases the chance of missing changes in weather systems - such as intensification of storm centers.

Without the Defense Department data, there will be bigger gaps in time when forecasters will not know the current conditions inside a storm. That could lead forecasters to be surprised when a hurricane suddenly intensifies. . . . Storms that gather strength quickly right before they hit land are particularly deadly because people have little time to prepare and evacuate.
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BirdinHand said:
Yeah - this is going to have downstream impacts.

If trackers can’t know in real time how the eye of these storms is moving - and follow trends in real time - they’re going to miss in their forecasts about intensity and landfall.

It’s already tough enough getting folks out of the way - this will make it so that there’s even less of a window of warning.

Good luck to all those folks along those southern seaboards.

🤷‍♀️😂
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It's ok, we'll just go back to the days when we had less info. I mean, people survived, right?
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Come on folks. I know we all want everything but we can't have it. Realistically, we have to make cuts. We have got to drive the debt down. Now Democrats want lots of Ukraine carnage - that's expensive - and they want every social program suggested. They want to throw money at climate change which Musk is doing with electric cars but they hate him, so what exactly would Democrats like to do to, to pare down the debt?? I know, tax the rich. We already do that, but even if we did more, there aren't enough of them to cover 36 plus trillion, even if we took every penny they had for the next decade. So where do you save money?? What's your suggestion if you don't want to privatize??
 
Logophile said:
Come on folks. I know we all want everything but we can't have it. Realistically, we have to make cuts. We have got to drive the debt down. Now Democrats want lots of Ukraine carnage - that's expensive - and they want every social program suggested. They want to throw money at climate change which Musk is doing with electric cars but they hate him, so what exactly would Democrats like to do to, to pare down the debt?? I know, tax the rich. We already do that, but even if we did more, there aren't enough of them to cover 36 plus trillion, even if we took every penny they had for the next decade. So where do you save money?? What's your suggestion if you don't want to privatize??
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Just a wee bit off topic, good sir.

Please tell the curious exactly which "Democrats want lots of Ukraine carnage". Those librul sites I read are pushing for peace in Ukraine -- NOT expanding the war.

Social programs often save money in the long term as people are provided education and healthcare so they can perform tasks that are needed for progress in our society.

Looks like it is the GOP-controlled Senate taking away tax credits from EV projects -- $15.5B in EV, renewable projects vanish as Senate eyes rollbacks

Yeah, not telling the public that storms are headed their way is bound to save cash. /sarc

Sorry, but America DOES NOT tax the rich at an appropriate level; there are way too many exemptions for high-income persons. Tax the rich at the same rate that middle-income Americans pay. That would pay for a lot of those 'librul' programs.

"36 plus trillion"? The federal government has spent $1.36 trillion more than it has collected in fiscal year 2025
 
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