The abrupt cutoff of satellite data crucial for hurricane forecasting is delayed by one month, until July 31, according to a message posted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Monday.
The impending data loss from a Department of Defense weather satellite system was announced on June 25 and slated to take place “no later than” Monday, according to an earlier NOAA announcement.
The decision, which was initiated by the Defense Department, caused an uproar among meteorologists, public officials and the media in the midst of hurricane season. The fear is that the missing information could degrade the accuracy of hurricane forecasts. The move comes in the wake of steep personnel cuts at the National Weather Service and other parts of NOAA.
But we always have money for shit like attacking Iran
And red states take the brunt of hurricanes
Haha get fucked republicunts.
If only hurricanes could target just repubs
Don’t they mainly target Red states?
They do, but there are blue cities that get caught up in it too
1930s didn’t have satelite, America was great then, people segregated, supporting Nazis. Make America great again.
We also have a pretty radical (compared to today) and vocal left in the 30s.
they will blame the woke leftists dei for the incoming hurricanes
The homosexuality upsets god and sends hurricanes upon us!
It’s ok. The returning Trump Sharpie, now offered in gold, will help predict hurricanes with 100% accuracy. Only $999.99. Get all the latest Sharpie updates on your totally-manufactured-in-the-US biggly Trump phone. (big /s there)
Southeast U.S. can wave their heritage flags and listen to their Trumpy trout while everything they own washes away. Thank you for voting for the last 60 years to fuck yourself.
Don’t forget, no FEMA funding to rebuild either.
A red state has always been fucked by FEMA. I used to live in Florida and there were homes still destroyed from Irma in 2017. The GOP state government always stops FEMA when a Dem is president. Then when a GOP becomes president they don’t want to use FEMA.
We can’t see the hurricanes lalalalala!
-Trump, probably.
It’s the same as his approach to Covid. If we stop testing, we don’t know how many cases there are and can therefore pretend it doesn’t exist anymore
He’s mostly fueled by being a little bitch, isn’t he? The Obama roast and Sharpiegate being two of his biggest motivators.
Funny thing is this will mostly affect the south. They voted for this shit so they get no sympathy from me.
Tell us you don’t have a clue how the electoral college works without telling us.
Did you type your comment from a country that voted for this? Do you deserve sympathy from other countries? Or do you think every person in the south voted for this?
I don’t expect sympathy from other countries because I feel like america broadly deserves this as punishment for its apathy. I’m saying this as someone who voted Harris. Also most people in the south voted for this. You wanna go cry for those people then be my guest. Im done having sympathy for backwards idiots who hate everyone and everything around them and are actively trying to set us back as a society. As for the small percentage of people who live there who didnt vote for this I feel bad for them and hope they can get out. Other than that they can rot in their disaster ridden meth towns because thats what they voted for.
It seems they only care about what affects the billionaires. They are not affected by weather I guess so screw the rest of us who aren’t sheltered every second of our lives.
People will die. Property will be destroyed. This appears to be the plan.
They want fewer poor Americans. Naturally, the best way to achieve this is to let them die.
Property could be purchased for cents on the dollar when people lose everything and have no support.
Isn’t that who voted for them though?
Why would republicans care? They didn’t care during COVID
They’re trying to get rid of the NWS because they want to privatize access to weather data.
Imagine what it will be like when you have to pay to receive severe weather alerts. These bastards are just trying to make it (even more) fatal to be poor.
I imagine it will be a lot like pirating live streamed TV, but with weather apps.
Probably a good idea to have 2 in case 1 gets shut down or raided.
I’ve said this before, first weather. Then GPS. That is going to suck. A lot of people probably don’t remember when GPS was obfuscated. We could go back to that, or completely scrambled without a key.
Good things phones all work with Galieleo
Well about that. The FCC and the EU came to an agreement about use of Galileo gps.
This means the opposite can be true, and they can require a push to revoke Galileo. Or the EU could revoke the gps as well. The license can effectively stop most people from having gps even Galileo. Yes you could avoid the update, try and use the signals anyways, but for the majority of people, a simple update and its gone.
At least in the states anyways.
I am hoping that California and other blue states make a deal with the EU, or offer some form of mutual assistance. It is clear that the Facist States of America are going to be worthless trading partners, so the EU and the Blue States should do their own thing.
USA is full mask-off at home, citizens are still deer-in-the-headlights seven months later. We can only hope the legs bouncing and rolling beneath the undercarriage causes a stop.
America was pretty great when the Great Galveston hurricane hit, so we need to recreate that scenario. Still the deadliest storm in U.S. history. Maybe that record can fall? Imagine Katrina, but with no evacuation.
