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.
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
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.
think about how much more you could charge poor people if they get severely injured by the hurricane
Fucking why
Because the data shows climate change, so it must be filtered.
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.
Why? So AccuWeather can monetize the very same service
Officials were caught off guard? What do you mean? Was anybody watching the last election and reading project 2025? None of this is a shock.
Yeah they voted for him but they didn’t actually think he’d do those things.
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.
And at a high rate of fire.
All by themselves, weather forecasting satellites justify every dollar put into space programs. The lives saved are incalculable. We are squandering that benefit for no reason whatsoever.
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
Fuck Florida? Fuck MAGA voters down south? Crash insurance and banking markets? Crash US dollar and raise inflation?
The benefit is that AccuWeather will now sell that same data and profit,big dollar presidential donations are paying off!
scrambling to understand the rationale behind the abrupt termination
Stop trying to look for any rationale behind anything this administration does. There is none.
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.
Any hurricane that comes by surprise will be nuked, not to worry.
Maybe a nuke filled with black sharpies.
Can some one send this mother fucker on his way already?
In lieu of actual vital data, the DOD will be sending out tRump-branded black Sharpies.
This was originally in the DOGE plan. What took so long to process? I’ve been watching for news on this catastrophic decision.
This is beyond terrible.
