U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday it would no longer process and deliver data essential to most hurricane forecasts
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it would immediately stop ingesting, processing, and transmitting data essential to most hurricane forecasts.
The announcement was formalized on Tuesday when NOAA distributed a service change notice to all users, including the National Hurricane Center, that by next Monday, June 30th, they would no longer receive real-time microwave data collected aboard three weather satellites jointly run by NOAA and the U.S. Department of Defense.
The permanent discontinuation of data from the Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder (SSMIS) will severely impede and degrade hurricane forecasts for this season and beyond, affecting tens of millions of Americans who live along its hurricane-prone shorelines.
The news on Tuesday sent users across the weather and climate community – including those monitoring changes to sea ice extent in the polar regions – scrambling to understand the rationale behind the abrupt termination. Though not immediately clear why the real-time data was suddenly discontinued, the decision appears to have stemmed from Department of Defense security concerns.
Officials at the National Hurricane Center were also caught off guard by the announcement and are preparing their team for the loss of critical forecast data for the rest of the hurricane season.
You know what?
Go ham. The south Atlantic coast and the gulf coast voted for this. Now comes the “find out” part. I am genuinely out of fucks to give. Enjoy your hurricanes and the non-response you’ll get from the now-gutted FEMA. See if I fucking care. Have fun machine-gunning your own foot.
Privatize the weather lmao
Just draw where you want it to go with a sharpie ezpz
Apparently hurricanes, which are the only outside force that regularly invades and obliterates American cities on American soil, costing billions in damages, multiple times a year…
… are not as important as these undisclosed “security concerns” that DoD somehow finds more important/immediate.
What’s the real story? Protecting Americans from hurricanes is too “woke” or something?
Probably the longstanding GOP goal of privatizing everything. To get public support for that, they first have to cripple the public service.
Oh nifty, Project 2025 again, that thing that Trump is totally not following to a T
Why must we live amongst such a vast swath of absolute babbling morons?
Correct, but in the meantime our fuck-wit in chief will just Sharpie in hurricane forecasts when he needs more attention.
including those monitoring changes to sea ice extent in the polar regions
Ah, there it is. Kicking climate change under the carpet again, I see.
Ding ding…we have a winner.
Anything that monitors for data that proves climate change is real is now WOKE and Trump wants to sweep it under the carpet
As ever, the Trump Regime is a colony of dumb and malicious assholes.
Trump is making himself the enemies of farmers and coastal communities alike. If I were an evil overlord, I would want my logistics to be rock solid.
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Other than this being Putin Puppetry, I have no idea who would think this is good.
We’re castrating FEMA and NOAA. What is the benefit?
Can’t afford to rebuild? Zillow will take that pesky property of your hands for a fraction of the price it’s worth.
That’s the benefit. It’s a great idea honestly if your goal is to destroy the housing market for short term profits
Wait. We don’t have to sell underwater properties to Aquaman. We can sell everything to Zillow!?
Fuck Florida? Fuck MAGA voters down south? Crash insurance and banking markets? Crash US dollar and raise inflation?
The money saved could go to essential tax cuts for billionaires.
The benefit is that AccuWeather will now sell that same data and profit,big dollar presidential donations are paying off!
Get ready for sharpie hurricane forecasting!
Who does this help???
What makes you think this regime wants to help anyone?
Trump just wants to get rid of anything good in America. Keeping people safe is “woke”
AccuWeather… Big dollar doner gets what he paid for!
Isn’t Trump’s house in Florida?
One day we will all rejoice in the destruction of that shit hole.
We can only hope he’s in it when it goes
Not for long with no hurricane data.
Well, the data won’t change the fact that a hurricane is coming or not. Just Trump’s ability to react to said hurricane. His house would be gone with or without the data.
Any hurricane that comes by surprise will be nuked, not to worry.
Maybe a nuke filled with black sharpies.
scrambling to understand the rationale behind the abrupt termination
Stop trying to look for any rationale behind anything this administration does. There is none.
I gues we shouldn’t have made fun of moron for thinking Georgia was Alabama. Disrupting climate change tracking is just an added bonus for super petty grudge holder. Prosecutorial immunity for elected officials was a terrible mistake.
This is beyond terrible.
It’s like people don’t like surprises anymore.
Welcome to “being poor is a crime”, rural white folk. wait till you lose your “medicaid that is totally not welfare” soon.
what the actual chicken fried fuck?
did they do this because they don’t want data about climate change to exist? don’t these fuckwads know how much shipping companies rely on that information? not to mention the actual fucking navy
War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows
Let’s try again.
Think carefully, surely you can see that two and two is five.
Don’t you agree?
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It creates a need that a private company can then fill. It’s greed and grift all the way down with these fucks.
Edit: (Bonus fuckery when they sell the existing instruments to said company for a “pay to play” access to information that was historically always free)
AccuWeather, the company is AccuWeather
That already exists. It’s called The Weather Channel, powered by Doppler Radar.
Navy still gets the data, NOAA is getting cut off.
But navy needs the climate projections from the researchers or they’ll be fucked when hurricanes hit too.
This is a very specialized type of weather satellite, it can see “under” the storm.
Trust that the US Navy has top notch meteorologists in the ranks, probably the people most qualified to interpret this data for thier needs
Having data is great. You can see what is… or was recently. But you need to feed this data into computer models to forecast the future, or a probability distribution about the future. And that’s what NOAA has and the navy doesn’t.
Why would you think that? I think the USN probably has parity, if not MORE capability than NOAA
Trust that the US Navy has top notch
people most qualified
Ah, I see you have no experience with the US military. It’s not full of qualified people, only ass kissers.
i can’t fucking believe we have to deal with this toddler stomping his feet about his stupid wrong weather statement being contradicted that one time by an agency whose entire purpose for existence is studying and forecasting the weather
Truly clownworld
Hey what we cant see cant hurt us, right, right?!?!?!?
