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Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather data (www.npr.org)
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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.

For more than 40 years, the Defense Department has operated satellites that collect information about conditions in the atmosphere and ocean. A group within the Navy, called the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, processes the raw data from the satellites, and turns it over to scientists and weather forecasters who use it for a wide range of purposes including real-time hurricane forecasting and measuring sea ice in polar regions.

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.

Well, that's just great at the start of hurricane season.

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[โ€“] Midnitte@beehaw.org 19 points 1 week ago

What's insane is that this literally saves no money. The satellites haven't fallen out of orbit.

This will do nothing but put more lives at risk and increase property damage from unsuspecting residents.

[โ€“] Pistcow@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Eh, it's what most of them voted for.