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.
scrambling to understand the rationale behind the abrupt termination
Stop trying to look for any rationale behind anything this administration does. There is none.
In lieu of actual vital data, the DOD will be sending out tRump-branded black Sharpies.
You have to wonder why the administration’s trying to make Americans less safe. You don’t have to wonder that I know why, but you should ask him. Constantly. Loudly.
With this and FEMA being drawn down I’m guessing Trump wants to create cheap real estate for his rich friends to buy up. If you can’t rebuild you’ll move and take what you can get for the rubble you used to call home.
Killing adult Americans is part of the plan to get the population to trend younger again. However you can take out adult Americans and increase infant Americans will be taken advantage of
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?
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.
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
If you don’t know about the hurricane it can’t hurt you.
Because having less knowledge always works out. Between this and the loss of FEMA, we should get even more “I didn’t vote for this”. Yes, you did. You just weren’t listening.
For fucks sake, can this admin get any fucking dumber?
They can and will
You sure you want to ask that?
mmm. comment about real estate prices in florida or on how presidential markers will be the new forecast. so many options.
It’s silly to invest in all this expensive technology when you can just look out a window and draw these things with a sharpie.
Why don’t people realize Dear Leader (and his Sharpie) is all that’s required for ultimately accurate and divinely inspired hurricane forecasting??
Can some one send this mother fucker on his way already?
…In USA.
Man there should be separate community for USA news. Or at least a flair.
I’m sick of their news appearing everywhere. Technology, economy, health… all these communities usually have USA specific news on top.
I live in the US and I’m sick of us being in the news as well. But the fact is that the fall of America is big news.
Cool. Give us only broad strokes. No need to hear about every nitty-gritty like Big Balls leaving DOGE or anything.
You’re free to keep scrolling past articles about the US
Use !world@lemmy.world rather than !news@lemmy.world if you don’t want US-specific news. That’s specifically what that community was created for (as well as its predecessor on Reddit, /r/worldnews…which eventually forked into /r/animetiddies due to Reddit drama, but that’s another story).
Did you miss the part about other communities as well?
Holy shit, they actually fucked over NOAA.
Fucking why.
They literally do nothing but benefit the world.
I am so tired of this shit, either let me fuck off and live in the woods so I never have to interact with this again or just end everything now, the world they are building isn’t worth living in.
Fuck.
Fucking why.
Because it will cause major issues, people will demand a replacement, and a private company owned by someone who bribed Trump will swoop in and “save” everyone with a subpar solution that is worse and cost more.
They get off on hurting people. They want to hurt everyone but themselves, and sucking up to them only delays the harm they will cause to you. They don’t care how they’re remembered, as long as people keep saying their names.
They don’t care how they’re remembered, as long as people keep saying their names.
This is the only thing that could explain Musk’s actions of the last several months as a believable rational choice. He realized he is not going to be around to see immortality or brain downloads or whatever, so he has to make his name and image immortal instead.
Of course, there are numerous other reasons that could explain it, many of them personality flaws.
Remember kids, when WFP asked Musk to feed every starving person in the world for a year for just 6 billion dollars, or 2% of his wealth at the time, he gave the money to his own foundation instead.
Petty revenge for not agreeing with trump’s sharpie forecast.
think about how much more you could charge poor people if they get severely injured by the hurricane
Why? So AccuWeather can monetize the very same service
Fucking why
Because the data shows climate change, so it must be filtered.
Welcome to “being poor is a crime”, rural white folk. wait till you lose your “medicaid that is totally not welfare” soon.
WTF is a hurricane? It’s just a storm, get over it.
A storm with heavy rain and extreme winds. A category 5 storm can reach windspeeds of over 157 mph (252 km/h). These things destroy buildings.
It was a joke.
There are no hurricane when there’s nothing to predict them. It’s just a storm. There’s no covid because we don’t test for it.
